Mysophobia (germophobia) is an intense fear of dirt, contamination, and germs like bacteria and viruses. People with this ...

Germophobia is the pathological fear of germs, bacteria, microbes, contamination and infection. The phobia can cause restlessness, fatigue, shortness of breath, headaches, digestion problems and ...

“There is no specific recent time when I’ve experienced a fear of germs, it’s just a constant hum in the back of my head. Even if I’m not actively thinking about it, the hum at the back of ...

I have a serious drinking problem. I refuse to partake from my wife's glass. Like an otherwise normal person, I will swap spit during a kiss, since I am in love. However, imagine bottoming up an ...

In the face of a highly contagious disease, might germophobia be due for a rebrand? What used to be hypochondria now looks—and is being sold—as something like common sense. And if there’s a ...

On a recent visit to a New York theater, a woman monopolized the single working sink in the ladies' lavatory, washing her hands not once, not twice but three times as a queue of women eager to ...

The Washington Post's Ed O'Keefe and Sean Sullivan report that Jeb Bush has finally said "game on" to Donald Trump. On Tuesday, the former Florida governor released a video attacking Trump as a ...

The news anchor shakes my hand. “So glad you could make it,” he says. Then he turns, still talking, and presses the nozzle on the hand sanitizer. This is the new American greeting. Howdy ...