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germs germ is an informal term for a pathogen which is a formal term for something that makes you sick a germ is a microscopic organism that can carry disease other words used for germs are microorganisms microbes and in slang bugs
Scientists no longer use the terms germ and microbe very much. Today they can usually identify the specific agents of disease, such as individual species of bacteria or viruses. To refer generally to agents of disease, they use the term pathogen, from the Greek pathos, suffering, and the suffix -gen, producer..