Giant Microbes: Soft toy versions of bacteria and viruses such as HIV, Herpes, Swine Flu and Ebola

[link to www.telegraph.co.uk]

A bizarre range of soft toys which look like bacteria and viruses have become popular with students, health care workers and children. The fluffy GiantMicrobes are shaped like the real bugs, but are about a million times bigger

Click link to see picture of one of these "monsters".......The Kissing Disease plush toy (the Epstein-Barr virus)