Chapter 2259 Masks

Back home, Shen Long bid farewell to Huang Chun, and he didn't hide it from Huang Chun. After hearing this, Huang Chun was very worried, but he didn't stop him. After getting along for so many years, she already knew that once Shen Long decided to do something, no one would It can be stopped, and this is a major event for the country and the people, so she has no reason to stop it.

"I'll wait for you to come back at home, and I will take care of Jingye, Jiali, and Jinggong, so don't worry!" Huang Chun said, holding back tears.

"You should also take care of the hospital. Now that so many people have left all at once, Yu Ting will go to the Northeast with me. It won't work without your help! Don't worry too much, I'm sure I'll be fine. Son." Shen Long held Huang Chun in his arms.

It only took one day for Shen Long to organize manpower and supplies, and he and Wu Lien-teh rushed to the Northeast at the fastest speed. After many missions, he returned to the land of Heilongjiang again, but it is a pity that the current land is poor. Not his. "To solve this epidemic, we must first find out what virus caused the epidemic! But now the country does not allow autopsies, it is very difficult!"

"The deceased is the greatest. This has been a tradition for thousands of years. It is not easy to find autopsies of people who died of illness. When I was in the medical center of Beijing Normal University, I also wrote to the imperial court many times to ask for anatomy courses, but the imperial court They always say 'Chinese customs and etiquette are different, you can't force it', let us use an anatomical model to teach, can this model be the same as a real person?" Xu Dingchao sighed.

"This matter is not impossible. Chinese corpses are not easy to dissect. Can we use foreigners? Many foreigners died in this plague, especially Russians and Japanese. We found such cases , Talk to their consulate and it should be fine!" Shen Long suggested.

Hey, what's the matter? There was a plague in my own country, but I had to find the corpses of foreigners to dissect. Also, this plague was obviously caused by the greed of foreigners. Why didn't I see them pay compensation to China? ? According to the clamor of these foreigners in later generations, at least they have to pay China hundreds of millions of taels of silver this time.

"That's a good idea. I'll discuss it with the foreign doctors in the medical team and ask them to contact their embassy to ask if there is any suitable patient corpse!" Wu Liande immediately went to find someone for help.

Soon, they found a suitable sample. A Japanese proprietress who ran a local inn died, and her body was still well preserved. So Wu Liande hurriedly took Shen Long over to conduct an autopsy on the body in a residential building. Then take out the infected person's blood sample and put it on a glass slide. Under a high-powered microscope, Shen Long and Wu Lien-teh saw the Yersinia pestis on the glass slide, and it was a unique oval shape with two colored ends.

"It's confirmed, it's the plague!" Although the symptoms of which patients have been basically judged, the final judgment cannot be made until the virus samples are seen.

"Then, the next step is to study the routes of infection,

After finding out all the transmission routes, find a way to cut off these routes and slow down the spread of the plague! "Shen Long blurted out these truths without thinking. In the real world, such knowledge is taught every day, every day.

"Let's take a look at this case!" Shen Long dug up a piece of information collected locally: A man returned to the village from Shenyang, died of illness, and his family accompanied him through the last journey of his life, and he was buried according to traditional customs. A few days later, all seven members of the family died, and only one baby was left crying beside the mother who had just died.

The neighbors helped to bury the corpse, and then took away the things in the house, clothes, bedding, and even the cushions on which the patient had sat. In the following days, one person after another was infected with the plague, except for an elderly man in his 70s. Women and 3 babies, 150 people in the whole village died one after another...

"If it was spread by blood, it would not be so fast, nor would it be so violent; this village is not close to a river, and there are more than one wells for drinking water, and the distance is far, so it is unlikely to spread by water; this family Although the village is small, most of them are people who came from other places to the east. There are people from all over Hebei and Shandong. The eating habits are quite different, and the spread of food is unlikely. Be careful, there are many children who only know how to suckle! "Shen Long denied various transmission channels one by one based on the information.

"It's winter now, and insects have entered the hibernation period, so the possibility of infection through mosquitoes, flies, fleas, etc. is not very high." Wu Liande added, "As for iatrogenic infection, it is even more impossible, many people did not go to the doctor. Hospital diagnosis and treatment."

After negating many possibilities one by one, the only thing left is the correct answer, "The source of infection of the plague is rodents. In recent years, there has been a wave of hunting marmots in the Northeast, and the earliest cases also occurred among people hunting marmots. , which shows that the marmot is very likely the source of infection."

"The plague generally has three routes of transmission: the first is the fleas on the rats. This point has been denied just now. The Northeast is so cold that the activities of fleas are greatly restricted. If only fleas spread, the plague will not It's spreading so quickly; but eradicating fleas is still a good way to mitigate the outbreak."

"The second is contact transmission. Infection can occur when the damaged skin and mucous membranes of healthy people come into contact with pus, blood, sputum, or the skin and blood of sick rodents; this is even less likely to be the main route of transmission, everyone. Now you are afraid of the patients who died of the plague, how dare you approach them?"

Shen Long added, "However, a large number of unattended corpses will still easily lead to the spread of the disease. We must write to the court and ask the regent to order all the corpses to be cremated!" This is also an extremely difficult thing. It is a traditional concept of the Chinese people for thousands of years, and it cannot be solved without mandatory orders.

"I will write a letter to all the members of the medical team. Since these two are not the main transmission routes, the only possibility is droplet transmission, which is troublesome!" Compared with other ways, droplet transmission is the most difficult. For prevention, "We can ask the imperial court to strictly control the railways to prevent the spread of the plague on a large scale, and at the same time prohibit the common people from visiting relatives and friends."

"This is not easy, it will be the Spring Festival soon!" Shen Long sighed, and later generations will complain a lot about doing this, let alone this era?

"In addition, we have to prepare a large number of masks for distribution to reduce the efficiency of droplet transmission!" Hey, I didn't expect that I would inevitably have to deal with masks when I came to the mission world!