A Farmer's Lady's Guide to Getting Rich

Chapter 593 The Plague
Most of the people who died of illness first developed rashes on their bodies, which grew into pimples the size of fingers.Then it turns into blisters, then inflames, festers, and turns into a big black, hard-to-the-touch eschar that's swollen around it but not painful.

The patient developed a high fever at the same time, had a headache and pain all over the body...and then died.

Some people have no obvious pimples, but they have chest tightness, cough, fever, and vomiting blood, and the result is death.

Others had fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and finally died.

In short, no matter which one it is, none of the existing medicines will work, and nine out of ten will end up with death.

What was even more frightening was that the disease was highly contagious. First, the people who ate the meat of those dead animals died, and then the family members who took care of them also died of the disease.Later, people who had contact with them also died.

Not only people died, but even livestock began to get sick and die.Once the whole family dies, even the cattle, horses and sheep cannot escape.

The god of death raised his sickle and harvested the grassland again and again, killing a large area.

The grassland people live by water and grass, and most of them have no fixed settlements. In addition, they are in the midst of war, so that when the disease first broke out, no one discovered it.

By the time they all realized it, nearly half of Beirong's land had fallen into the hands of the disease. Tens of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of livestock died of illness one after another, and the disease spread explosively.Not only Beirong, but also the borders of the adjacent Ximan and Dayu were affected.

At that time, Chang Ning was in the midst of anger that Liu Qianqian was poisoned and unconscious, but before she could think of any way to rescue Liu Qianqian, the Plague Emergency Report was urgently brought to her case.

The officials who reported it wrote down the symptoms of those people in detail, claiming that they had never seen such a terrible plague.In order to protect Dayu, it is suggested to use the most cruel method to abandon those infected villages and burn them clean.

"This should be anthrax!"

Chang Ning is not a doctor, but she has a wealth of historical knowledge. She knows that anthrax is a horrible virus that has caused both humans and livestock to die at the same time in history. The symptoms are very similar to those written in the memorandum.Anthrax has caused great death in ancient Rome, Europe and Russia.

Moreover, in the two world wars, it was used as a biochemical weapon by Germany and Japan... But later, with the development of human medicine and antibiotics, anthrax had a nemesis, and it never broke out on a large scale.

For the treatment of anthrax, penicillin is the first choice, followed by antibiotics such as erythromycin.

However, neither of this world!
When Changning was in middle school, I read some homemade methods of making penicillin from extracurricular readings. However, the biggest problem now is not only that it takes time to make.Still facing the question of whether the product made in that way can be used?Is there any effect and other issues?

Penicillin side effects can be fatal.

Who knows whether the simple penicillin can kill or save people?

Moreover, if you want to inject penicillin to save people, you must have a syringe, and you must have someone who can use a syringe, and someone who dares to go to the epidemic area to save people!

There is a glass factory in Changning, and the production of syringes is not a problem. After a few more studies, it should be able to be manufactured.

Regardless of whether it is too late to develop penicillin and use it in this epidemic, there is no harm in researching it.She immediately went to Qishan Bieyuan to transfer a research team of 200 people, and gave them a separate large yard, asking them to collect penicillium as much as possible, that is, to collect a large number of rotten steamed buns, noodles, fruits and so on.

Then Chang Ning took the shortest time to carefully recall the various utensils he encountered when he was studying chemistry and entering the hospital in his previous life, drew drawings of various glass syringes and chemical containers, and handed them over to the glass factory to speed up the development.

At the same time, she found time to write a guide to the prevention and isolation of anthrax.

There is no way for her to save those who have already been infected. Those who have not been infected should hurry up.

If it cannot be cured, isolate it first, just like SARS, first isolate the possibility of it continuing to spread.Isolation zones have been built around the border to gather all the infected people together.

Whether it is a person or an animal that dies, it will be burned immediately.Those who have come from the epidemic area and have not yet developed symptoms should first be isolated and observed for a week.

The isolation area is sprinkled with quicklime for disinfection. All staff entering and leaving the isolation area must be equipped with work clothes, hats, masks, etc., and try not to eat or drink in the epidemic area.Immediately after leaving, take off your clothes, boil them in hot water for disinfection, and wash your whole body.

Strictly protect water sources in various places, and all excreta, garbage, and waste water in epidemic areas must be treated and strictly disinfected by special personnel.

This era is very fearful of epidemic diseases, so when people hear that there is an epidemic somewhere, they run away in fright and dare not approach at all.No one is willing to treat the patients in the epidemic area, so someone proposed the cruel method of burning all.

But Xiao Qian and Chang Ning would never do that. Fortunately, there were not many infected places in Dayu, only some border villages.Xiao Qian sent the army over directly to strictly implement Changning's preventive care measures, but he quickly controlled the disease and did not let the bad situation spread further.

Ximan and Beirong suffered heavy casualties, although Ximan got the method of preventive care and actively promoted it.But because it belongs to the grassland country like Beirong, and it is adjacent to the border, the spread of the virus cannot be controlled at all.Tens of thousands of people were soon infected, and many people and livestock died almost every day.

Even the Ximan royal family lived in fear. Princess Ayin and Wei Wuqi didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately dragged their family and ran into Dayu.

They were quarantined for a period of time, and after finding out that they were not infected at all, they made their way to Huining City.

"Unexpectedly, all the calculations and arrangements are not worth a plague."

Seeing Wei Wuqi, Xiao Qian couldn't help laughing when he remembered what he had secretly entrusted to him.

"Master, this plague is God's blessing for me. Since then, at least for 30 years, Beirong has no chance to regain its strength."

Even though Wei Wuqi married the princess of Ximan, his heart was still towards Dayu from the beginning to the end, avoiding Princess Ayin and quietly said to Xiao Qian: "Ximan is the same!"

"Based on the friendship between me and Azheluo, we don't want to see Ximan suffer such a catastrophe. It's just that the plague is so dangerous, and indeed there is no specific medicine. We have more energy than we want." Xiao Qian sincerely said to Princess Ayin
"This kind of natural disaster, how can the power of mortals stop it!" Princess Ayin hugged her parent's pink and flowery daughter, and said tearfully with lingering fear: "This plague is too terrible, too many people have died. The innocent people are really sad!"

yes!Too many innocent people died.

Even though Bei Rong didn't need Xiao Qian to go to the Northern Expedition after this incident, which saved him a lot of things, but he didn't feel very happy.

"Where is the Crown Princess! Why isn't she here?"

Only now did Princess Ayin remember that she hadn't seen Changning after she entered the Zhenbei Palace.

"She went to study the medicine and equipment to treat the plague, but I don't know if I can catch up with it." Xiao Qian knew that researching penicillin was not an easy task, especially for them who did not have much medical and chemical knowledge, they did not dare to hope for success. hope.

(End of this chapter)