Chapter 1008 Gretel: Cerela, Don’t Ask What a Good Girl Doesn’t Need to Know!

Gretel had no idea how the Governor's Palace of the Storm Islands would react, what the Kingdom of Brolin and the Holy See of Glory would think after receiving the news, and what powerful people might come from afar.

——He didn’t even go out to the research institute. The large group of people from the parliament had already left by airship, leaving only one group looking at the mage tower in the capital city of Tenoch, and another group looking at the mage tower at the port;

Those low-level mages, merchants, and magic craftsmen who came with the airship, centered on the two wizard towers, purchased materials, made magic products, and sold them to external parties;

Some of them are too energetic, and they also go back and forth on the plateau basin, go up and down nearby, and drill around to explore. From time to time, someone comes knocking on the door:

"Mage Nordmark, could you please tell me what the use of this plant is?"

Show me a plant, and you dig it up by the roots!

What's the use of giving me a dead dried flower? Even if I can talk to plants, do you expect me to talk to half of a dead plant organ?

"Mage Nordmark, could you please take a look, I was bitten by an insect..."

stop!

Do not move!

Don't get scared and run away when you see me take out the knife!

I want to see if bugs have laid eggs in your arms!

Body-fixing technique!

"Mage Nordmark, look at this ore..."

Take it away!

I'm not a change type!

For ore identification and other matters, let people from their alchemy branch do it! Unless you get some strange disease from being around this ore - for example, this happens to be a piece of pitchblende - if that happens, come back to me!

Things like this happened a lot, and Gretel was originally interested in walking around Tenoch City and accompanying Cerela to see the rare things. Gradually, he didn’t even leave the institute and focused solely on research on yellow fever.

There's nothing we can do if we don't stay in the research institute. It would take ten days and a half at the earliest for the airship to return to Nevis;

To summon the necromancers of the plague branch in Nevis, even if those necromancers signed up enthusiastically, gathered the jars, gathered the guards, and prepared the travel supplies, it would still take three to five to seven to eight days;

Then, it is impossible for these necromancers to receive special treatment from airships: they have to come over by themselves. One or two months by boat, one or two months from the east coast of the New World to the west coast, and one or two months from the west coast to the Land of Eagles...

Even if everything goes well, Grete estimates that if they can arrive before the end of the rainy season, it will be considered extremely efficient.

Before that, the institute only had Gretel, Archmage Haines, a few necromancers brought over by Archmage Haines, and Linn, working hard inside.

Miss Serrela helps when she is happy to help, and wanders around when she is not happy to help; although Mr. Balensimo works hard to help, his spellcasting level is limited and he can only be used as a second- and third-level mage; Bernard...

Apart from carrying the soldiers, commanding the native soldiers to guard the prisoners of war, and directing the native slaves to deliver meals to the prisoners of war, Bernard was really of no use.

Besides, the most important work of analyzing and judging data still requires Gretl to do it himself.

"Subject No. 1, body temperature is normal!"

"Subject No. 2, body temperature is normal!"

"...Subject No. 13 has a high body temperature! - Someone, give him a mercury thermometer and tell him to hold it under his tongue and shut up for three minutes... Archmage Hines, why don't you a skeleton?" He can talk!"

"You can speak, but you can add [Spell of Glossary] to it so that it can speak words that the other party can understand. I'm still researching this... Forget it, I'll work harder and throw a [Proficient Speech] to the native. Language] bar!"

Linn put down the record book in his hand and glanced at Gretel silently. Gretel, your demands are too high!

I used to think that his golden skeleton was very fragrant. It could do housework, cook, had fighting ability, and could even pick up the skin of Mr. Trocca's neck. I longed to get one;

Later, when O'Neal Gold came along, he could help with surgeries and incisions, and the golden skull immediately lost its smell. You didn't even expect O'Neal Gold to help with cooking, sweeping the floor, and washing clothes;

Now, you actually dislike the skeleton of an 18th-level archmage and can’t speak the indigenous language!

——Skeletons can talk very well, okay? Your Aonijin can only touch his upper teeth against his lower teeth, making a lot of "grrrrr" sounds!

"...Today's statistical results show that there are three groups, 13 people with elevated body temperatures and suspected symptoms of yellow fever. One group is the mosquito group; the other is the blood injection group..."

Gretel went through today's data one by one, turned on the spell again, and looked at all the patients one by one. In addition to [Fortune Observation Technique], the God of Nature's divine magic also has similar methods, which are even more detailed than [Fortune Observation Technique]:

You can tell at a glance who is in good health, who is sick, who has just begun to suffer from illness, and who is seriously ill. The important thing is that there is no need to listen to the heartbeat, no need to take the temperature, or even no need to enter the door.

Indeed, as he expected, those subjects who lived with yellow fever patients across a railing and put mosquitoes in the railings developed symptoms of yellow fever, ranging from mild to severe;

Some of the subjects who lived alone and set up mosquito-isolating arrays but were injected with the blood of yellow fever patients developed symptoms: mainly those patients who had just become ill. After the illness was relieved and when they started vomiting blood, the probability of symptoms was different. big;

Those subjects who lived in a room full of vomit from yellow fever patients, but with a magic circle set up to isolate mosquitoes, had been living there for two weeks, and everyone was alive and well, and no one had any problems;

Those who take personal care of yellow fever patients and have close contact with them... uh...

"Why are there three sick people?"

Gretel scratched his head. Could it be that this crap thing has other ways of spreading besides insect vectors?

If droplets can also be transmitted, and it can also be transmitted through the digestive tract, this will be a big trouble!

"Have a look!"

Grete frowned and walked to the isolation ward according to the room number on the record book. To drive away mosquitoes and flies, open the door, close the door, and drive away mosquitoes and flies again. Stepping into the first isolation ward, Gretel glanced around and then covered his forehead:

"I asked you to take care of him, why did you beat him?"

The indigenous warrior lying on the ground had a bruised nose and swollen face, and blood marks everywhere on his face, arms, and body. Correspondingly, the Brolin soldier who was locked up with him also had his arms scratched one by one...

There was even a deep tooth mark on the left shoulder, the flesh was rolled and blood was oozing out. Grete went over and took a look at the indigenous warrior. Yes, there were obvious symptoms of bleeding gums.

If he is handcuffed to the wall like this and still has the strength to fight back, should we say that the natives are physically strong, or should we say that the soldier's symptoms are not very severe, or should we say that rabbits can bite when pushed hard?

"He killed my comrade! Two of the three people in the team died in his hands!" Soldier Brolin said with hatred, his face twisted, and when he touched the wound on his face, he couldn't help but "hiss". Grete let out a long sigh:

Okay, the mystery of this group is solved. If you are scratched by a monkey with yellow fever, you will be infected with yellow fever. If you are bitten by a person with yellow fever, you will also be infected with yellow fever...

"Change him to another room and don't let them stay together." Grete sighed and went to the second problematic room. This time, he stepped into the ward, turned around and left:

"Drag that guy out too! It's true, after three years on the ship, even the top sheep will have a pretty face!"

"Why do you see Yangdu's beautiful features?" Cerela, who was following Gretel and was pushed out before she could see the room clearly, asked curiously. Gretel was speechless, stared, and turned around:

"Uh... Serira, a good girl doesn't need to know this..."

"But I'm not a human girl! Just tell me! Tell me, tell me!"

"This... that... Cerela, you have been on the boat for three years and have nothing else to eat except fish. When you see the first sheep, will you want to eat it?"

Alas, doing epidemiological research is really difficult. When I was studying in my previous life, the research methods taught in "Epidemiology", such as etiological inference, causal logic, design and implementation, bias and control...

Cohort studies, case-control studies, experimental epidemiological studies, screening and diagnostic tests…

I have done it once, with smoke on my head and sweat on my back, and then I realize how difficult it is to do research and how great the previous researchers are. Thank God for his level. Fortunately, he did not take the academic route in his previous life, but took the clinical route...

In short, after a series of accidents and ruling out a series of unrelated causes, Gretel finally proved the spread of yellow fever. Very good, basically related to blood and transmitted through mosquito bites.

Of course, you must be scratched or bitten by the patient during the illness, or do something you shouldn't do and have blood contact, then... you deserve it...

Grete breathed out and solemnly wrote his first paper on tropical infectious diseases. At the end of the paper, he also made a comment:

"Given that there are many types of mosquitoes in the world, perhaps not every mosquito can transmit yellow fever. However, in order to ensure the health and safety of adventurers, we solemnly recommend that all mosquitoes be driven away... "

Well, figuring out the mode of infection is the first step. Their ultimate goal is to figure out prevention and treatment.

So, how to prevent and cure this crap?

The simplest way is to carry equipment with mosquito repellent magic with you. Bracelet, or pendant, or headband, or belt, or cloak——

This kind of magic equipment does not need to be developed by Gretel, the council already has it. It’s just that the uses were not widely used and the sales volume was not high, resulting in high product prices:

A cloak or belt, single-function, starts at 2,000 gold coins; a headband, bracelet, or pendant, because it is relatively small, starts at 3,000 gold coins...

Only magicians who are spoiled and hate mosquitoes would buy this kind of equipment. As for ordinary warriors and ordinary adventurers:

With two to three thousand gold coins, who would tie their head to the waistband and go out for adventure? ! Wouldn't it be nice to make some smoke or apply some grass juice to reduce mosquito bites?

The problem is that smoke works well in the campsite, but it cannot protect the whole body during outdoor activities. Even if you apply grass juice on your arms, legs, and exposed skin, you won't be able to use the toilet in the wild?

Traveling through mountains and rivers, sweating and wading in water, the grass juice will not be washed away?

Doing this can only reduce the probability of mosquito bites from 100 bites per day to 10 bites per day.

What Grete has to do is to reduce the probability from 10 bites a day to not taking one bite at all; or, even if he takes 100 bites, he will not be infected with yellow fever...

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