How Dirty Is Paper Money?
By Alice Henry
@IreneVincent (15960)
United States
September 4, 2016 11:19pm CST
You don’t even want to know. From now on though, I’m going to wash my hands more often after shopping.
I heard today that, almost all paper money has cocaine on it. And tests have shown that there is also E.Coli, staphylococcus bacteria and fecal matter on paper money. Oh brother!
Wash your hands often if you handle cash money. Yikes!
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
9 Sep 16
Washing our hands is a good habit to have. We touch a lot of things that are unclean and unhealthy.
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@silvermist (19701)
• India
6 Sep 16
It is good to wash our hands after handling paper money.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
6 Sep 16
Yes, a lot of illnesses come from unwashed hands.
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@topffer (42155)
• France
5 Sep 16
The main study about bacterias on banknotes has been realized by Mastercard. But when I enter the code for my card in a shop, I get bacterias from the previous user of the machine, and there are 10 times more bacterias than human cells living on any human being... Better to not think about it.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
5 Sep 16
It's a good thing that our bodies can fight off MOST bacterial infectious contact. Everything we touch, from door knobs to menus are contaminated. LIke you said, it's better not to think about it.
However, the admonition to "WASH YOUR HANDS OFTEN" is still a GOOD idea.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
5 Sep 16
Just remind yourself to wash your hands often. We touch many things during the day that are covered with bacteria. Door knobs and even menus and chairs in restaurants.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
5 Sep 16
I'm sure that paper money has passed through many places that I can't even imagine. Perhaps we should spray it with disinfectant.
@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
5 Sep 16
yah it's true paper money is dirty but not only a paper money is dirty but also a coin is dirty,why?because the money is passes to everybody and you don't even know if the person who holds has a clean hands
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
5 Sep 16
You can wash the money. It's not paper. I've accidently washed money before. It's mostly linen, I think.
@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
5 Sep 16
Can you imagine? Money is very contaminated. Wash your hands often.
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
5 Sep 16
I always wash my hands (if I can) after handling paper money.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
5 Sep 16
I try to tell my grandchildren to wash their hands often. I don't want them to become fanatics about it, but I do want them to understand how diseases spread.
@1210800460 (557)
• China
5 Sep 16
Paper money is very dirty.It's need to wash my hands after shopping.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
5 Sep 16
Wash your hands a LOT after handling money. I hate to think about people who handle money all day, like bank tellers. YUK!
