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The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 49, December 2, 2001, Article 14

DISEASE-CAUSING COINS?

  An article published on the Reuters newswire November 26th
  notes that two of the new euro coins may be prone to cause
  skin disease.

  "STOCKHOLM - Two of the eight euro coins due to come
  into circulation in January release so much nickel that people
  allergic to the metal could develop hand eczema, according to
  a study obtained by Reuters on Friday.

  Just five minutes of contact with one-euro (88 cents) and
  two-euro coins containing nickel alloy could trigger
  symptoms, including skin inflammation or itching, the study
  by a Swedish dermatologist and British laboratory scientist said.

  Earlier studies of French, British and Swedish coins containing
  nickel found that those coins also have the potential to cause
  nickel allergies, it said.

  Fifteen percent of all women and 2% to 5% of men in the
  industrialized world are prone to nickel allergy.

  In the study, two-euro coins were bathed for a week in a
  solution resembling human sweat to imitate the effects of
  people handling coins."

  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011126/hl/coins_1.html

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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