It’s in the Money
Most U.S. dollar bills are bacteria farms, according to a recent study in Ohio. Paper money could be one of the mediums that transports antibiotic-resistant bacteria from one person to another.
Peter Ender, chief of infectious diseases at the Wright-Patterson Medical Center near Dayton, along with his fellow researchers, collected 68 dollar bills from a grocery store and a gym. They soaked the bills in a nutrient broth and left them for 24 hours. Next, they smeared samples of the broth onto glass slides for analysis.
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