It's one of the best weapons in our arsenal right now against the coronavirus. Other WRAL Top Stories Though washing our hands seems painfully obvious now, it wasn't always that way. The importance of ...
Among the wonders medical science has come up with over the past 150 years, the simple act of hand-washing ranks high. There was a time when it wasn’t so. We have Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis to thank for ...
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ONE hundred and seventy-four years ago in the city of Vienna, a young Hungarian doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis stumbled across a link between pathogens on the hand and the spread of communicable ...
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On the first day of my microbiology class last week, my professor asked if anyone had heard of Ignaz Semmelweis. My hand shot up in the air as I proudly declared that I did, in fact, know who Ignaz ...