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Chapter 76 Organophosphate Poisoning

Send someone to look around.

Three more sick cows were found in the woods, one of them was dying, lying by the fence.

The sun is gradually setting.

Looking at the Simmental calf lying on the ground, the old cowboy Andy frowns.

After all, he is the person with the most cattle raising experience in the entire Lanai Ranch. Now that the calf has some problems, this honest old man thinks that he has neglected his job.

Professor Ronald from Stanford University, after receiving a call from Su Rui, couldn't attend to dinner.

First, I brought an assistant who was studying for a Ph.D. to take a cotton swab and put it in a sealed bag. By the way, I also drew some blood from a calf.

Su Rui helped them temporarily arrange a storage room in the hotel to store the equipment they brought from school, found a table to assemble a workbench, and tested the collected samples as soon as possible.

Around 08:30pm.

Professor Ronald called Suri and told:

"The results came out. It doesn't seem to be a common infectious disease in cattle. The blood results showed that the organic phosphorus content exceeded the standard. It should be some kind of insecticide or pesticide."

Upon hearing this sentence, Su Rui finally put his heart back into his stomach, and asked the other party, "Is this substance common?"

".Of course, many pesticides are used in many pesticides. For example, the insect repellent used to kill cockroaches in my house is very effective. I also found a few related papers on the Internet. If you are interested, I can send them to your mailbox. Some children It will also lead to hospitalization due to mistaken exposure to organic phosphorus. It is recommended that you find someone to help those cows gastric lavage, and then use atropine mixed with saline to give intravenous injection to those cows. It is best to find out where the organic phosphorus was exposed. So as not to be poisoned again in the future."

After listening, Su Rui felt more at ease.

As long as it is not a widespread disease, the loss of a few calves is nothing to him.

Of course.

It would be better to save those five cows. They are currently worth three to four thousand dollars, and they will cost tens of thousands of dollars when they are raised. It is better than digging a hole and burying them.

He said again: "Thank you very much, I will call someone first and contact you tomorrow?"

"No problem, I'm going to eat dinner first, and my friends are still swimming outside."

After hanging up the phone.

Suri immediately took the key and went out, and Daddario followed suit.

He called old Mr. Andy, briefly explained the situation, and learned that several calves were only poisoned, and the old cowboy was obviously relieved.

on the phone.

Old Andy asked:
"I have been in contact with cattle poisoned by organophosphates before, but they convulsed and spit white foam. The symptoms are different from this time. I will help them gastric lavage now, but the drug called atropine should be difficult to buy on the island, right? Do you have an acquaintance who can contact a nearby pharmacy?"

His connections are not in Hawaii, he has only been here for a month, and he still knows very few people.

After searching his head and thinking about it for a while, Su Rui replied, "I'll try. If it doesn't work, I'll go to the emergency department of the hospital and ask. In addition to gastric lavage, I also need to find out where they were poisoned, so as to prevent other calves from suffering too."

"Well, I checked the numbers on their ears, and they were not locked together, so I thought they should be sick. Leave this to me. Anyway, there is nothing to do tonight, and you can go to other islands to buy medicine , lest you worry so much that you can’t sleep.”

"I don't know where this medicine is, I'll contact you later."

Su Rui sat in the lobby of the hotel, and asked the little girl on duty at the front desk to give Professor Ronald a bottle of good red wine as a thank you for her help.

Flip through the address book.

Although I know the director of Adventist Health Castle Hospital, for such a small matter, I don’t owe a petty favor. It’s troublesome to move around a lot, and I will be invited to participate in various activities.

So Su Rui found the Native Hawaiian boy he met on the day of the charity party, and the other person's name was Apu.

while in Los Angeles.

Apu also called and asked him to go out for a drink. As a native of Hawaii, this guy is also a rich man with good conditions, so he might have a way to get the medicine as soon as possible.

Knowing the cause and effect through the phone, Apu didn't regard this small problem as a trouble at all.

Tell me that one of my mother's best friends is a member of the board of directors of the Queen's Medical Center in Hawaii. I will say hello later and send someone directly to the hospital to get it. I also invited Su Rui to their birthday party.

Not knowing Apu's birthday friend, Suri politely declined, and only agreed to go to Honolulu when she was free to meet him for a drink.

It was nearly nine o'clock in the evening.

Suri asked the old and young Bod and his son, who were flying the helicopter, to go to the Queen's Medical Center in Hawaii to get medicine instead of him.

And he took Miss Daddario, who was joining in the fun, and drove to the pasture again.

On the way, they encountered a wild deer that jumped out suddenly, which frightened them.

There are too many wild deer on the whole island, which has already affected the ecological environment of the entire Lanai Island. After running on the road, they are still stuck in front of the car, refusing to leave.

It can only be said that this group of wild deer provoked the wrong person tonight.

Suri has already booked a venison feast in advance, and asked Miss Daddario to ask her to go hunting tomorrow
when they came to the pasture.

There was a Mercedes-Benz G500 with the lights on, and the old cowboy Andy and others were busy washing the stomach of the calf.

There was a strange smell in the air, and there was a large pile of undigested fodder on the ground.

Considering that each adult cow needs to eat about [-] kilograms of forage a day, plus grain consumption during the fattening period, it is no wonder that many environmental protection experts have been clamoring that raising cows is not environmentally friendly and suggest that everyone should switch to a vegetarian diet.

Seeing the calf vomit, Su Rui also had the urge to retch.

He pulled Daddario back a few steps, so as not to step on the sewage in the grass, and said to old Andy: "I have sent people to Honolulu to get medicine, and it may take more than an hour to go back and forth. Can that cow hold on?"

Old Andy nodded and explained:
"I checked the information, and there should be hope that it will be rescued, but the contact with organic phosphorus will inevitably affect the quality of the beef, and the price is lower than other cattle. We have heard the sound of the helicopter taking off here. Working on the ranch, tourists often complain that the sightseeing helicopter is too noisy, it is best not to fly at night, many people have very sensitive ears.”

".Great suggestion, will say hello to the driver next time, or level up a piece of land elsewhere, the current helipad is too close to the hotel."

While watching them watering the calf, Su Rui asked:
"Where did they come into contact with organic phosphorus? Have you found the reason? Don't worry, I don't mean to blame anyone, but it's best to be careful, lest similar things happen again."

As a descendant of the French, Little Roque, who was free and romantic since he was a child, has already glanced at Daddario several times with a dung fork in his hand.

This guy is single all year round, especially lacking in love.

Finding that pretty girls are always around Suri, and being stuffed with dog food in different ways all day long, in Little Rock's opinion, it's even more uncomfortable than beating himself up.

Ever since Miss Talia mentioned that he often carried "Playboy" magazines when he was in school and showed off in class, this guy died on the spot, and he has cut off all thoughts of Talia.

The so-called dream lover is not like that.

It's close at hand, far away in the sky, beyond reach.

Little Rock, who had stopped thinking about it, hesitated to speak at this moment, and whispered something:

"Maybe it was Aunt Karna's mistake."

"I remember that she mentioned that there were a lot of fleas. Some cows used her car as a tool to rub the fleas off their bodies. Someone saw her spraying disinfectant on a few cows in the afternoon, and it was probably stained on the pasture. "

"Aunt Karna must have helped treat the cow out of good intentions. I didn't know until a few minutes ago that the substance called organophosphate can be absorbed by the skin. I have asked people to get soap, and I will give it to the cow later. A few cows take a bath."

Su Rui remembered that warm-hearted aunt, and didn't know what to say for a while, so she waved her hands and said:
"Forget it, remind her not to continue to use this medicine next time, and it's best to destroy it all. Fortunately, it's just a cow. If someone touches it by mistake, wouldn't it be... Has anyone seen Aunt Karna tonight? Since she doesn't know This kind of medicine can be poisonous, have you touched it before? Does anyone have her phone number?"

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".I know where her home is, why don't I go?" Little Rock said.

"Let's go then!"

(End of this chapter)