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• InteliHealth: Does a Sneeze Mean Disease?
• The New York Times: Gesundheit! Sneezing Gets a Big Reaction - June 22, 1983
• Snopes.com: Bless You!

• Bless You!
  http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/blessyou.asp
• "Does a Sneeze Mean Disease?"
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• "Gesundheit! Sneezing Gets a Big Reaction," The New York Times
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• Goldberg, Carey. "And to All, a Universal 'God Bless You'"
  The New York Times, December 24, 1995, pg. 4.2
• The Mavens' Word of the Day
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• MedicineNet
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