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Weither an onion scientifically can keep away germs, I do not know. From my experience...lets just say I have an onion on my desk. A friend of mine told me of this old wives tale. I had been getting sick and just feeling run down. I thought, what the heck. Wasn't for a while that i noticed but I hadn't really been horribly sick after placing the onion on my desk. I put it there just incase clients came in with a cold :) Anyway, after a long while the onion was looking poorly so I threw it away. It was atleast 3 weeks it was gone but in that time frame I had several sore throats, body aches and coughing. I just kinda laughed and brought another onion from home. So far so good. Now like I said, I don't know of the logic or scientific part of this but seriously for me, it's not hurting anything hiding behind my kleenex on my desk so why not!

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