The Google doodle dedicated to Hungarian doctor, pioneer of hand washing

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 20 - Today's Google dodle is dedicated to Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician pioneer of hand washing theory, a very important practice in this phase of the coronavirus epidemic. Born in 1818, he began his internship as head of the postgraduate students of the largest obstetric clinic in Vienna. In 1847 he discovered that puerperal fever, at the time responsible for the death of many women who gave birth in hospital, was caused by an infection of the same nature as that which killed surgeons who accidentally injured themselves during examinations of corpses or while carrying out operations on infected patients. In essence, hands that were not well cleaned or disinfected were the vehicle of the disease.
To avoid further deaths, he then proposed to use a chlorine solution to disinfect the hands of students and professors and in one year he managed to reduce deaths by 90%.
Its discovery was initially opposed but in the weeks of the spread of the coronavirus, its teaching appears to be very important, repeatedly remembered by the health and government authorities around the world.