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History

March 19, 2015

  Handwashing has been a central component of personal hygiene and a religious and cultural custom for many years. However, the link between handwashing and health was first made less than two centuries ago. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor working in Vienna General Hospital, is […]

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