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Who discovered the cause of childbed fever?

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Ignaz Semmelweis

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'Childbed fever' – puerperal sepsis due to streptococcal infection introduced into the vagina by a woman's birth attendants – was a common cause of death much feared by pregnant women until the end of the 19th century.

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