that washing hands thing always gets me. I thought it would be more innate to want to clean your hands after encountering; soiled things, the dead, child birth, and etc.
Education and knowledge can be messy and stinky at times, but it is so necessary and important. Thank you all for your tireless work at your actual workplace but also for making this accessible for almost everyone with these wonderful videos. At this point I have no idea how I stumbled on this channel, maybe because I visited the exhibition at Charité Berlin in 2015 ;)
I always love your presentations, they are concise, informative and entertaining. Such an analysis like this one allows us to appreciate how far we have come to understand the nature of disease.
07:50 for those of you wondering 💀 night soil is "human excreta collected from cesspools, privies, pail closets, pit latrines, privy middens, septic tanks, etc." (wiki)
The fact how much hands cleaning can change the situation is amazing. I remember reading how other than strict quarantine for taveling merchants one of the reason slav countries, expecially Poland were not very affected by that one wave of the Pague that killed half of Europe was because washing hands after coming back home was a custom at that time in those regions.
