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The invisible world
 
The world around us is filled with forms of life that are too small to be seen by the naked eye. This is the world of micro-organisms, or microbes, in short.
 
Bacteria, viruses and fungi (the plural of fungus!) are all different types of microbes. They live everywhere around us, on us and even in us. Luckily most of them are harmless. Some microbes are useful and some are dangerous.
 
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