The cash and cards YOU touch every day are crawling with germs including lethal superbugs, study reveals

The cash and cards YOU touch every day are crawling with germs including lethal superbugs, study reveals The findings come after US loan firm LendEDU tested how dirty our money and cards actually are - and it turns out the answer is filthy By Danny De Vaal 25th May 2019, 10:40 pm Updated: 26th May 2019, 1:01 am CASH and bank cards are crawling with an array of filthy germs, a study has claimed - including potentially deadly superbugs. US loan firm LendEDU tested how dirty our money and cards actually are - and it turns out the answer is filthy. GETTY - CONTRIBUTOR 4 Some credit cards had a germ score as high as 1,206 when restaurant surfaces should have a score of ten or less to be considered 'sanitary' They...

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Marking the moment - Antimicrobial Badge Holders and Credit Cards

Marking the moment  Donald Black, Lisa Holmes (Patent Holder) and Jim Bettinger  May 2019: These gentlemen will bring a simple solution to controlling bacteria on your credit cards and workplace wearable identification badges and badge holders.  Don Black and Jim Bettinger, will be launching the first product in the USA  - from the Antimicrobial Credit Card, and Badge Holder patent. Pictured here with Patent Holder, Lisa Holmes. &nb...

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Your Credit Card May Be Dirtier Than A New York City Subway Pole

Your Credit Card May Be Dirtier Than A New York City Subway Pole We’re typically more concerned about where our money goes than where it has been ― but new findings posted by financial education website LendEDU might make you reconsider. New York Subway Pole The company released the results of an experiment testing more 40 debit and credit cards, 27 different bill denominations, and 10 coins for germs. Each payment method was swabbed with a handheld germ testing device and assigned a “germ score” to rank the item on the disgusting scale. The higher the score, the dirtier the item. And spoiler alert: Our money, like pretty much everything else in the world, is prettydirty. Somewhat...

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