Re: currency spend analysis vs. disease

> (seems Viking has done a fine right up of the artical)

Thanks.


> the thought was the mysterious powder may have gotten into the money

Paper money is actually some of the dirtiest stuff. The fibers soak up &
retain all sorts of stuff - such as cocaine. [
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/cocaine.asp ]


> diseases don't live on money for very long and within a few hours of
> exposure they die off.

That may be all that is neccesary for a particularly virulent bug. It can
also be used as a very discrete method of purposely infecting a population
- i.e. bioterrorism. That concept was a plot device in a book by Frank
Herbert, author of the Dune series, "The White Plague" [
http://urlx.org/amazon.com/9f85 ].


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