Handwashing became a part of our lives when Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes advocated for the washing of hands in the 1840s. Holmes realized that women who delivered their babies in hospitals, up to 20-25%, were dying at an alarming rate from childbed fever (puerperal sepsis), a type of infection; bacteria.
Although Dr. Holmes had proof, the practice was widely rejected. Fortunately, we’ve come a long way.
Almost from the beginning of the 2009 H1N1 flu, we have seen a major push to educate consumers about the necessity to wash their hands often, and properly.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), handwashing is one of the most important ways to prevent the spread of disease-causing bacteria, other germs (i.e., viruses, fungi, protozoa, etc.,), and illness.
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