The Bank of England is thinking of replacing its cotton based notes with plastic ones. The latter ones sohuld last twice as long.

But a new study has found that bacteria loves some kinds of banknotes better than others. They steralised bank notes and the introduced MRSA or E.coli onto them. Euroes didnt pass E.coli onto people’s skin. US dollar passed on some bacteria. But the worst culprit was the Romanian leu a ploymer plastic banknote very similar to that proposed for the UK. So if the Bank of England plans proceed we can potentially expect to see more bacterial skins infections spread by our banknotes. Funny money indeed.

So the Bank of England will save a few millions but the NHS potentially spend more on fighting bacterial infections. Not joined up government.