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When it comes to this condition, clinically known as mysophobia, traumatic experiences like a childhood illness, the death of a parent, or a frightening medical procedure for example, can condition a person to be overly fearful of germs and to take extreme measures to avoid them in adulthood. Phobias can also run in families through genetics or can be simply learned from caretakers.