Re: currency spend analysis vs. disease

> readers are possibly familiar with the "Where's George" 
> US dollar bill tracking site:
> http://www.wheresgeorge.com/

> a 26 January 2006 Nature magazine article is described here 
> which uses this movement of money data to analyze spread of 
> disease:
> http://urlx.org/mpg.de/0551
Well I read a good part of the article and I can make a few comments about
the subject, (seems Viking has done a fine right up of the artical) I live
very close to the first post office to have been identified as the source
of the Anthrax virus a few years back, our mail was delivered in sealed
plastic bags with a note suggesting we not open it (I still have a few,
figure I'll sell them on e-bay someday LOL) but one of the things we were
told by local officials at the time was to be very careful of handling
cash, the thought was the mysterious powder may have gotten into the money
system simply by the post office workers paying for lunch and such after
handling the infected mail, this seemed to be generally dismissed and not
worried about. I myself have used the where's George website and have had
about 100 bills be reported after marking them before they leave me, they
have turned up all over the country and in other parts of the world, I had
one $20 bill leave me and turn up in Arizona only two days later (I'm in
NJ) so yes cash travels very quickly, this article seems to focus on a
mathematical equation that was derived by using the raw data from the
money tracking sites, after all money very rarely travels without people
(at least in small quantity) it seems our money gets around fairly quickly
but all the info I've managed to locate seems to lean towards the idea
diseases don't live on money for very long and within a few hours of
exposure they die off.
  The concern of money transmitting diseases around is not a new one the
earliest writing I've seen on the subject was written back in 1907
covering the disinfecting of money, this was a little scarier back than
being science in general was in it's infancy. All I can say if anyone
thinks that any disease is going to take years to spread among a country's
or even the world population has another thing coming to them, I would
give a disease that spreads easily from person to person about a week to
spread thru out the world! Ya airplanes will do us in with this! Oh and
yes I do relise the main point of the article was that disease would
travel very quickly on it's own without the aid of money and the fantastic
math used for this.  I don't even want to think of the results should a
terrorist group get the idea of using money to spread a bio terrorist
attack, could make money a very unpopular thing very quickly! Did some one
say gold coins as a monetary unit?


Fred


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