Cashiers vulnerable to flu from banknotes

I have always known that money is covered with germs. All kinds of people handle money, you never know who had touched the money you have and if you are a cashier, that is a great reason to keep their hands washed or keep that waterless hand sanitizer with them.. And as a mother, I have had to tell my children when they were young to get that money out of their mouths and explain why.. There it is, another reason money is so dirty, kids put it into their mouths..lol

When I worked at a gas station I was constantly praying the place down with Lysol to kill the germs that people leave behind. I also washed my hands ALL the time.

I think that cashiers are not the most exposed working cathegory to such airborne infections as flu and so on. First of all because in general bank cashiers have got a protection glass between them and the customers, Second, and most important, because flu is caused by a virus (orthomixovirus) which is very fragile in its external envelope, so it can't survive more than minutes out of our body (or that of animals such as birds which are the most common vehicle of this infection to man). So, to catch a flu you must be exposed to the customer himself and not just to his own money... Another noteworty thing is the fact that the so called entrance of the virus in our body is the upper airways tract: the nose or the mouth: so if you just don't touch them with your hands after having manipulated money -an hygenic habit which helps everyone to prevent many and many diseases and not just flu- you don't have the risk of let some viriones enter from the banknotes or the coins you have to touch. Of course, if someone likes to imitate Disney's Unkle Skrooge and wash himself with coins or banknotes, or wanna appreciate gold's smell, the risk is obviously highier... LOL