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How to wash your hands properly
Lindsey Fitzharris discusses how we learnt to wash our hands thanks to Ignaz Semmelweiss. In a world that had no understanding of germs, he tried to apply science to halt the spread of infection.
First broadcast on Science Stories, 28 August 2019.
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