Ignaz Semmelweis and the War on Handwashing
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Ignaz Semmelweis and the War on Handwashing

Mar 21, 2018
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Ignaz Semmelweis made a connection between hand hygiene and the prevention of childbed fever in the 19th century. He wasn’t taken seriously then, but today he’s known as everything from the father of infection control to the conqueror of childbed fever.

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