Currency notes are causing tuberculosis, ulcers; FM Jaitley to take preventive steps
Currency notes are causing tuberculosis, ulcers; FM Jaitley to take preventive steps A pan-India traders body has urged Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to order an investigation to assess the possibilities of a spread of diseases by currency notes, observing that various reports have indicated so. According to researchers, currency notes carry dozens of micro-organisms that can cause diseases and infections, including tuberculosis, ulcers and dysentery. In a letter to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) on Sunday urged him to conduct a larger investigation to assess the possibilities of diseases getting spread by currency notes. Earlier, scientists at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) - one of the top-ranking institutes under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) - found traces of DNA footprints of at least 78 disease-causing micro-organisms on currency notes. While most of these organisms were found to be fungi, the study revealed that there were also bacteria that can cause dysentery, tuberculosis and ulcers, the CAIT noted. -PTC News
