The dirtiest item is money

Money is in fact a "least hygienic" object - recent studies by British scientists confirm.

Researchers from the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology and the Royal Mary University College (London, UK) have demonstrated that 1 in 7 bank notes and 1 in 10 bank credit cards have traces human feces - Independent News daily newspaper said.

Money is the least hygienic thing we contact every day.

Medical experts in analyzing infection levels of human hands showed that 26% of cases had fecal traces, containing E. coli and Staphyococci bacilli.

Interviewing 272 people is known to only 39% of people wash their hands before eating. 91% of the respondents said they washed their hands carefully with soap after going to the toilet but the camera surveillance was the opposite. Also violating the most hygienic principles is the British.

Doctors claim that washing hands with soap can only reduce the infection index causing diarrhea to 42%, yet only 69% of the population washes their hands several times a day.

Russia's Medicforum newspaper quoted Dr. Ron Cutler, co-author of the study, as saying: "Our research demonstrates that every day money transfers from one hand to another means they have Everyone talks about their bacteria, everyone says that they wash their hands carefully, but the investigations and tests say it is actually the exact opposite. transfer on paper and polimer cash surfaces'.