The Dirty Secret About How Our Hands Spread Disease | Science

Sabrina Sholts Curator, Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History “There is no act of life so dangerous to others,” fumed physician Robert Eccles in 1909, “as carelessness concerning the condition of our hands.” He really meant it. In a seven-page rant titled “Dirty Hands,” published in the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette of New York City,… Continue reading The Dirty Secret About How Our Hands Spread Disease | Science