JULY 19 "FILTHY LUCRE" IT IS!

Filthy lucre indeed. It seems that paper money is a magnet for germs. A study presented at a meeting of microbiologists Wednesday concluded that most paper currency is contaminated with bacteria and could play a role in spreading disease. Dr. Peter Ender and colleagues at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio, collected dollar bills (swapping new bills for old) from patrons of a high school stadium concession stand and of a local grocery store. Of the 68 bills they collected and studied, only four were free of bacterial contamination. Five contained types of bacteria that can commonly cause infections in healthy people, including Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumoniae. Fifty-nine bills held bacteria that can cause significant infections in people who are hospitalized or have depressed immune systems. These included various species of Streptococcus, Enterobacter, Bacillus and Escherichia vulneris. "One-dollar bills are widely used and each is exchanged many times," said Ender, who presented the work at the American Society for Microbiology meeting in Orlando, Fla. "If some bills are contaminated with bacteria, there is potential to spread these organisms from person to person." The longer you hold on to the filthy lucre, the higher the chance of you catching the virus.


by Lee Bowman, Scripps Howard News Service from the Topeka Capital-Journal

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