Article from central European country is full of microbes (5)

I believe the answer is:

germy

'full of microbes' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'article from central european country' is the wordplay.
'article' becomes 'an' (English indefinite article).
'from' suggests deleting specific letters.
'central european country' becomes 'germany' (I've seen this before).
'germany' with 'an' removed is 'GERMY'.

'is' is the link.

(Another definition for germy that I've seen is " crawling with bugs".)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.

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