Dispatch 2: Every Day is Ignaz Semmelweis Day
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Igness Semelweis's Observation of Propebral Fever
Igness Semelweis was a doctor at Vienna's General Hospital. He noticed that Propebral Fever killed an average of 30% of women giving birth in the hospital each month. The death rate is 18% higher when doctors are delivering the babies, he discovered. This 10 times bigger risk of dying than for midwives to deliver your baby.
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