Video 1 Transcript
So a Hungarian obstetrician noticed that in their ward there was a significantly higher maternity fatality rate. And so he was conducting some research trying to figure out what was going on and come to find out the doctors who would come and work on these maternal patients would be coming from the morgue and would be performing autopsies. So they would have all that gunk on their hands and then come and work on these pregnant moms. And he saw that when he made it mandatory for them to wash their hands in chlorine, the maternity fatality rates dropped to about 2%. And that was kind of the first indications that there were these things called germs which were significantly detrimental to health and increasing fatality rates.