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Does cold air kill germs and bacteria?
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Not really: They have found bacteria frozen in glacial ice for millennia that were still viable. Don't count on a cold Boston winter to kill bacteria. If it did, none of the bacteria in your environment would survive.
Answered 1/31/2017
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