The Magic School Bus Fights Germs is the eighteenth of twenty-four of The Magic School Bus Scholastic Reader books.
Plot[]
A sick Wanda with a sore throat unwittingly mistakes the Bus for a cough drop, so she inserts it into her ulcer-filled mouth. Inside Wanda's throat, the children learn that germs don't come from the body - they enter the body through its openings, such as the openings to the pharynx (ears, nose, and throat) or open cuts. The kids slide past her oropharynx to reach the back of her throat, where they enter a blood vessel and almost get eaten by a white blood cell. Afterwards, they travel back to the mouth again, where they fly out of Wanda, who gets an antibiotic.
Trivia[]
- Fights Germs is featured in the Science Readers A box set along with In the Bat Cave, Has a Heart, Comes to Its Senses, And the Missing Tooth, Fixes a Bone, and And the Butterfly Bunch.
- The class wears medical scrubs similar to those The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body.
- The class almost gets eaten by Ralphie's white blood cells in Inside Ralphie.