03 October 2006

Will they open bank note exchanges?

Planning a little early snow for the weekend? Taking advantage of falling prices in a buyer's market? You may want to think again or at least tread more carefully.

The latest health warning concerns the potential to contract hepatitis C when using shared banknotes whilst enjoying a little cocaine.

Charles Gore, the head of the Hepatitis C Trust in the UK tells us:

"5,000 banknotes were tested in London [in 2000], 99 per cent of them had traces of cocaine on them. That tells us that there is potentially a massive problem in diagnosis and people's awareness of how easily hepatitis C can be contracted. "We are concerned that if more is not done to alert people to the dangers of sharing, then what is already a big problem risks being turned into a health time bomb."

Has anyone rung Kate Moss?

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