Disinfect for Health

In 1847, the Austrian physician, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, demonstrated that puerperal sepsis ("childbed fever") was contagious and that incidents of infection could be dramatically reduced by enforcing appropriate hand hygiene by medical caregivers. In his study, Dr. Semmelweis noticed an alarming difference between the low infection rates in the mothers cared for by midwives in one hospital ward and the higher rates of those attended to by the medical students in another ward.... Read More »