Germ Buster camp gives kids weapons against flu
By Debra Pressey
Saturday June 20, 2009
Robert K. O'Daniell
Maria Capps, playing Agent Hand Wash, sprays kids with a bubble machine during the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District's Germ Buster boot camp on Friday. Children learned how to avoid spreading germs and will pass on what they learned to others.
CHAMPAIGN – To fight off a flu pandemic that may get a lot nastier in the fall, it's going to take an army of kids who know how to put a germ in its place.
Kids like Eunice Patton, 7, of Urbana, who already knows exactly what she's going to say to people when she spots them about to spread yucky germs on their hands to their mouths:
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