Dispatch 2: Every Day is Ignaz Semmelweis Day
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Ignaz Semelize's Hands Are Limousines for Pathogens
In 1847, Ignaz Semelize taught us that our hands are limousines for pathogens. The virus that causes COVID-19, this coronavirus, it's got a membrane around it. It's kind of oily and it breaks up in soap. Washing hands then becomes a kind of an act of war. Next time you wash your hands, think about that. But there are hundreds of years of life and death and ignorance and knowledge all right there,. combingling with this open water.
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