Researchers contaminated coins with MRSA and found that the MRSA bugs survived after two weeks of storage at room temperature. Things like this seem to almost make people act less afraid instead of more afraid. Like the doctors you talk to who shrug at MRSA and say “Oh well we are all carrying it” like there is nothing to be done. But none of this changes our very real number one defense: handwashing. It is not new to anyone that money is dirty. Hopefully people will take studies like this as a reason to remember to wash their hands thoroughly and not to get the idea that there is nothing we can do since it is everywhere. It may be everywhere, but I don’t have a big boil from it yet and I still plan to do all I can to avoid even having one of them. I hope you do, too.