Question: What do germs look like?

Saima Rehman answered on 11 Nov 2013:

Well, that’s really interesting to know, isobeir! You can’t see germs with your naked eyes, but there are special instruments to see them, for instance, microscope. Some germs (bacteria) are tiny balls, or rod shaped, or like a spiral. They have thin and long hairy things on their bodies, which help them to swim, or to get attached to humans cells. Some other germs (virus) have complex shapes, imagine six-corner box, having 8 legs. They don’t have eyes and ears, but they can see and communicate using “chemical signals”.
They are loaded with “disease causing weapons”, and they are filled with nasty toxic stuff, enough to make us sick.
But there are some “friendly germs”, which are your friends, helping you to digest your food properly. They live on you.