Do germs live on Antarctica

Answer 1

No. It's too cold. It would probably be safe to say that most new arrivals of workers likely were infected before they landed in Antarctica, but only got sick after they arrived. Because of the closed conditions, this outside illness would spread through the community of workers. Once all the temporary worker population has recovered from the germs that caused their illness -- head colds, for example -- no one else 'gets a cold'.