Glad you liked it. I also find it very compelling. If the thesis of this paper had been generally accepted it is possible we would have a much lower incidence of cerebral palsy. However, I think, slowly, slowly, the medical community is coming around.
Ignaz Semmelweis started telling doctors to wash their hands in 1850. They hounded him into an insane asylum, where he died.
The 1980s represented a landmark in the evolution of concepts of hand hygiene in health care. The first national hand hygiene guidelines were published in the 1980s
Call it 130 years from discovery to formal guidelines.
How long will this take for this to become formally recognized?