Chapter 966: Bacteriological Warfare - Fighting Poison with Poison

"Six days ago, on December 25, 1943 - the anniversary of the birth of Jesus - the United States and the Empire of Japan, the most vicious enemy of Christendom, chose this holy day to carry out the most murderous and shameless attack ever seen by mankind. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Japanese army and navy used anti-human bacteriological weapons in this attack - plague, anthrax, cholera, and other germs - they made weapons and dropped them on the soil of Southern California in the western United States. This is not an attack at all against military personnel and military targets, but against civilians, against unarmed women, children and the elderly. Given the fact that germs are highly transmissible, this attack was also directed against all of humanity and at least the entire Christian civilization.

The aim of Japanese imperialism is not only to defeat the United States and occupy the overseas territories of the United States, but also to destroy all Americans and other human beings who believe in God.

The facts of Christmas Day speak for themselves, and the people of the United States have formed their own opinions, and they are well aware that this concerns the security and livelihood of our nation and of all Christian human beings.

As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, I have instructed to take one measure for the sake of the people of the affected areas of Southern California, and to take all measures for the defeat of the United States and the enemies of Christ.

But the nature of this bacteriological attack will always be remembered by our entire nation and all those who believe in God. No matter how long it will take to overcome this premeditated attempt to destroy us, the American people will surely win an absolute victory by their own righteous forces. And the victorious counteroffensive is ready and about to begin, and the bases used by Japan to wage bacteriological warfare will soon be recaptured by the US military......"

When Donovan, the director of strategic intelligence, and Hoover, the director of the FBI, walked into the Oval Office, Roosevelt was sitting quietly behind his desk, listening to his Nth fireside chat, the purpose of which was to calm the hearts of people who were fluctuating because of germ warfare.

"Turn it off." The president ordered.

"Yes, sir." Colonel Caton, the president's adjutant who entered the office with Donovan and Hoover, immediately stepped forward and turned off the radio, then gave the president a military salute and turned away.

"Sit."

Roosevelt said in a gloomy and somewhat frightening tone to the two big American spies.

"Japan's bacteria have caused us a lot of damage!" "The Director of Federal Security just told me that as of Dec. 31, there were more than 25,000 Americans diagnosed with plague, anthrax and cholera in Southern California alone, with tens of thousands of suspected cases," Roosevelt said. The number of deaths...... More than 2,000 people have died, mostly from the Black Death! ”

The Black Death is the pneumonic plague, which is the most terrible kind of plague, with rapid development, sudden onset of high fever, obvious symptoms of systemic poisoning, a large amount of bright red bloody sputum appears a few hours after the onset of the disease, and the patient dies within 2-3 days!

Because there is still no cure for pneumonic plague (in fact, streptomycin, a specific drug for the treatment of pneumonic plague, has been invented and is being used in clinical trials, but Yersinia pestis has not been found to be sensitive to streptomycin), so the plague fleas dropped by the Japanese brought a staggering number of deaths and injuries to Southern California in a very short period of time. In a short period of time, nearly 10,000 people were infected, but fortunately, most of them were glandular plague, which could be treated with sulfonamides.

As for the two germs of anthrax and cholera, the harm to the people of Southern California in the United States is not as great as the Japanese imagined.

Because the live anthrax vaccine appeared as early as 1881, and in 1939 there was also a capsular attenuated strain vaccine with very good effect, and in the United States, where the pharmaceutical industry is very developed, all high-risk groups (farmers, herders, veterinarians, slaughterhouses, and fur processing workers) have been vaccinated against anthrax. Moreover, penicillin, a special drug for the treatment of anthrax, has long been mass-produced in the United States, and as long as it is not allergic to penicillin, anthrax infection is basically not fatal.

In addition, since December 26, U.S. military medical personnel have been vaccinating people in the United States who have been vaccinated against anthrax in various parts of Southern California. So the small number of anthrax spore bombs dropped by the Japanese did not cause much casualties.

Cholera is relatively easy to control, although there is no specific cure for cholera. Because Vibrio cholerae is mainly transmitted through diet and drinking water, the California government immediately declared a statewide state of emergency to control the movement of people after discovering that the Japanese might have used bacteriological weapons, and at the same time sent the National Guard to distribute wartime rations and bleaching powder (used to purify drinking water) for the U.S. military in Southern California, which was hit by Japanese air raids. As a result, there was no major cholera outbreak in Southern California.

But the plague left Roosevelt feeling helpless, with no cure, no really useful vaccine - the Americans now only had the live attenuated plague vaccine, which had good immunity against bubonic plague, but could not deal with the devastating pneumonic plague.

In addition, controlling the spread of plague is much more difficult than controlling cholera and anthrax. This is because plague can be transmitted not only by fleas, but also by droplets (pneumonic plague) that can be transmitted directly from person to person.

Roosevelt looked gloomily at the two heads of the U.S. intelligence services in front of him, and said the expected bad news word by word: "This morning, the California National Guard found a bacteriological bomb with an intact ceramic shell on a bomb balloon that fell near Saramento...... It's full of plague fleas! ”

"Oh God!"

"Damn it!"

Hoover and Donovan were horrified, and there was still a way to defend against the bombing of the Me-264 -- several major aircraft manufacturers in the United States were now working overtime to produce night fighters such as the P-61, F4U-2, and F6F-3N/E.

But with tens of thousands of bomb balloons a day, who can guarantee 100% downage? Moreover, shooting down a Me264 would have to kill 2 very good pilots (an aircraft flying more than 8,000 kilometers must have 2 pilots), which would be a loss for Japan.

And there was no one on the bomb balloon...... In other words, if Japan had used bomb balloons to spread deadly germs, it would have caused countless deaths of the American people with zero casualties.

Moreover, the Me264 bombers that took off from the Hawaiian Islands flew to the west coast of the United States at most, while the bomb balloons could float to the central and even eastern regions of the United States...... This is not without precedent before.

This meant that the terrible plague epidemic could be spread by Japanese bomb balloons to the whole of the United States outside of the epidemic area of Southern California at any time!

"We must stop the germ attack of the Japanese!" Roosevelt said. "Otherwise, countless Americans would have died of the terrible plague."

Deter? How to stop it?

"Mr. President, are we attacking the Hawaiian Islands?" Donovan asked tentatively.

Roosevelt smiled bitterly, "I think the Japanese must be in the Hawaiian Islands, ready to crush our attacking forces." ”

"President, do we want to make peace with the Japanese?" FBI Director Hoover asked uncertainly.

Hoover was aware of the secret peace talks that were taking place in Switzerland, and he also knew that the Japanese had made very high demands, including the cession of the Philippines, the cession of Guam, the cession of the Aleutian Islands, the cession of the Hawaiian Islands, the cession of all the American islands in the Western, Central, and South Pacific...... It is obviously impossible to accept.

"It's impossible to make peace!" Roosevelt shook his head and lowered his voice, "We should have a better way...... For example, germs are transmissible, and now the germs in the affected areas of Southern California will definitely spread to other places, such as Europe! ”

"What? Europe? ”

Hoover and Donovan looked at each other, and both saw a look of surprise on each other's faces.

Roosevelt shrugged and said, "Yes, it's Europe...... Now the traffic between North America, South America and Europe is not completely cut off, there are still some neutral countries, aren't they? How would Hitler and Hersmann react if rats infected with plague in Southern California or elsewhere in the United States arrived in Portugal or some other European country? ”

"They would be mad at their Japanese allies," Mr. Donovan said, "and the Nazi Party pursued a racist and Eurosupremacist line." And the Junker military aristocracy was both conservative Christians and white supremacists...... The very fact that the Japanese dropped deadly germs on white Christians at Christmas was a great affront to the Nazis and the Junkers. If these germs spread to Europe, it would certainly pose a major challenge to the cooperation between Japan and Germany! ”

"Yes!" Roosevelt said, "Without German support...... Even if it is only a temporary loss of German support, Japan can only be torn apart by us! Do you know what to do? ”

"We see, Mr. President."

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"Lieutenant General Oshima," said Lieutenant General Hiroshi Oshima, who was meeting with the representative of the Japanese Army in Germany and also the Japanese ambassador to Germany, at the General Staff of Roosevelt, at the time of Roosevelt's earth-shattering conspiracy, "You must have agreed to provide us with a vaccine against pneumonic plague?" ”

On December 26, the day Hirschman learned that the West Coast of the United States had been attacked by Japanese bacteriological weapons, he urgently met with Hiroshi Oshima to ask for a vaccine against the plague. It was not that he expected the Americans to adopt the method of fighting poison with poison, but that bacteriological weapons had the characteristic of "uncontrollable spread."

The Spanish flu at the end of World War I and the Black Death in the Middle Ages in Europe were, to some extent, "bacteriological weapons", both of which swept across Europe and caused countless deaths.

And it was only a matter of time before the bacteria that Japan spread in the United States got out of control and spread to Europe. And once Japan's bacteriological weapons cause heavy human losses in Europe, it will inevitably arouse public indignation, and then relations between Germany and Japan will inevitably break down completely.

So Hersman wanted Japan to provide a vaccine in the first place - white supremacy and racism are now no match for the temptation of world hegemony, but it is another matter to really let germs run rampant in Europe.