Word: teddygerm
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...Christmas my son gave me athlete's foot. Not the condition, but a stuffed polyester version of the microbe that causes it. Greatly enlarged, of course, and with beady eyes. What you might call a teddygerm. A company in Delaware sells the little fellas - not only athlete's foot but also flu, earache, bad breath, ulcer, black death, flesh-eating and so on. Joke gift, yes, but in this season of peace, love and human disastrousness, bacteria have been all over the news...
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