Wash your hands, especially after you've been in public places and touched handrails, grocery-cart handles, and other frequently handled objects.

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The drift of Le Grand K relative to the others could be explained by the fact that it is taken out of its vault and handled less often than the other objects.

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But a grassroots project called the Bioweathermap was launched a year ago to discover and track the worldwide movements of these organisms using high-speed DNA sequencing of the biological residue on paper currency, one of the most oft-handled and well-traveled of objects.

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