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Introduction Warning: This Book Is Downright Disgusting
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Acne: Look Out Below, Your Zit's About to Blow!
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Ants: Some of These Creepy Crawlies Are No Picnic
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Bacteria: The Good, the Bad, and the Stinky
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Bats: It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Fuzzy Mammal?
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Beetles: The Things That Go Crunch in the Night
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Blood: How Something so Gross Can Be so Good
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Body Lint: Would You Like Toe Jam with Your Toast?
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Body Odor: I Sweat Therefore I Stink
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Burping: A Belch Is Born
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Cannibals: Let Them Eat...Fred?
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Cockroaches: Or, How to Live for 135 Million Years on a Diet of Pure Garbage
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Crocodilians: From King of the World to Swamp Thing
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Dandruff: Snow for All Seasons
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Earwax: Great Big Gobs of Brownish Gunk
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Edible Bugs: Waiter, There's Some Soup in My Bug!
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Eels: Slithery, Slimy Swarms of Fish
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Eye Gunk: Mr. Sandman, Meet Mr. Mucus
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Farts: A Burp from Below
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Fleas: This Joint Is Jumping!
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Flies Puking and Peeing: A Day in the Life of a Fly
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Foul Feet: A Step in the Wrong Direction
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Freaky Fish: Swim or Be Swallowed
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Frightening Fashions: Outfits Wackier than Your Great-Aunt Ida's
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Fungi: There's a Fungus Among Us!
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Gross Grub: If You Think Broccoli Is Bad
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Halitosis: Wake Up and Smell the Stench
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Icky Insects: To Buzz or Not to Buzz
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Jellyfish: Put on Your Pantyhose and Dive In!
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Leeches: A Blood Buffet
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Lice: Too Much Attention Can Go to Your Head
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Lizards: Relax, Take Your Tail Off
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Maggots: Decaying Dead Deer? Dinnertime!!
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Miserable Meats: A Soda, Some Fries, and a Double Eyeball Burger with Cheese
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Mites: Mighty Microscopic Munchers
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Mosquitoes: A Midsummer Night's Scream
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Mucky Medicine: This Will Only Hurt for a Second
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Mummies: Are You My Mummy?
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Naked Mole-Rats: Rough, Tough, and in the Buff
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Parasites: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
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Pee: They Call Me Mellow Yellow
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Poop: A Bum Deal
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Pus: Green, Goopy, and Good for You Too!
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Quicksand: I'm Sinking and I Can't Get Up!
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Rats: Long-tailed, Sharp Toothed Disease Buses
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Raunchy Recipes: Today's Specials: Totally Nasty
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Scabs: A Crusty Coat of Armor
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Scorpions: Mini-Monsters of the Night
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Shrunken Heads: A Nightmare for Your Noggin
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Sickening Seafood: This Chapter Is Not for the Faint of Tummy
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Skin Eruptions: Rashes, Blisters, and Warts. Oh My!
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Skunks: A Putrescent Perfume
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Slugs: Confessions of a Naked Snail
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Snakes: Do the Fang Tango
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Snot: You May Think It's Candy, but It's Snot
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Spiders: They're Not All Itsy-Bitsy!
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Spitting: Welcome to Loogie Land
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Tar Pits: Stuck in a Rut
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Ticks: A Bunch of Suckers
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Toilets: A Royal Flush
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Vile Vegetation: Fearsome Flowers and Vindictive Vines
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Viruses: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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Vomit: Bring Along a Barf Bag--This Is Gross!
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Vultures: Chow Time at the Roadkill Cafe
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Worms: Spaghetti That Squirms
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X-Periments: Making Muck of Your Very Own
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Bibliography
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Photo Credits
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Index
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