These days everyone's banging on about friendly bacteria! The Ebola virus was first recognised in 1976 near the Ebola river in the Congo in Africa. You do not want to get Ebola. A short incubation period results in fever, sore throat, stomach pains and internal and external bleeding. Then for between 50-90% of victims, death. Fortunately cases appear only sporadically.

These 4-inch plush dolls look like the real microbes that can give you grief but are about a million times actual size!