Chapter 1132: Plague
"Cake sellers! It's hell! Father Gary watched his feet carefully, and while making a cross in front of his face, he gagged his nose and exclaimed only when he was out of the place.
The weather in May in India was enough to evaporate the smell of dying or dead bodies lying in the distance, and even every breath of air emitted a disgusting smell.
"Father, you see, is there any good way?" Singh, the prince of the local princely states who had not moved beside him, flicked his index finger to let down the heavy curtain and isolate the world outside, and at the same time leaned into Father Gary's eyes with his fat face.
As for the fart people who fell to the ground, he usually didn't pay attention to them at all. They have to struggle between life and death for generations, often killing and wounding thousands of eight hundred, and His Royal Highness Singh, the ruler of this princely state, will not lift his eyelids. But now he had to actively look for a way to help them, because a terrible plague was taking the lives of almost all the inhabitants of his territory.
India, located in the tropics and subtropics, can easily become a breeding ground for certain viruses or pathogenic bacteria due to its large population and poor hygiene. There are countless Indians who die of various diseases every year, and the Asans have long been accustomed to jumping into the turbid waters of the Ganges River at most, bathing and drinking holy water while praying for their safety.
It is by virtue of their strong ability to reproduce that the Indians have overcome generations of diseases, survived the various plagues that have swept the country again and again, and have also summed up some experiences.
This time, as soon as they saw the common people under their rule fall in pieces, the administrators of the princely states knew that another round of plague was coming. They must also take some measures for their own safety.
But some of the primitive segregation methods they had passed down from their ancestors from generation to generation didn't work.
Before any of them had noticed, the poorest of the society had fallen in droves, spreading the disease to every part of the princely state. By the time it arrives at the outbreaks of ordinary civilians or even the upper strata with slightly better sanitary conditions, it is too late.
The plague was not limited to this one princely state, but all the surrounding princely states were caught up in the ravages of this plague, and even almost the whole of India was affected by this plague. Singh only heard that there were already such cases in Mumbai. Only then did he dispel the plan to go to Mumbai for refuge with his wealth.
This is also a very popular experience among the top executives in India.
No matter how great the plague. The lower classes of the people under his rule will not all die. It doesn't matter if they die, anyway, India is so big, there are always surviving fart people, as long as there is a little more time, they will multiply on the land in groups.
It's just that there is nowhere to escape at the moment, and the British Isles and the European continent, which used to be a haven of refuge, are now immersed in the horror of the Chinese blood-colored battle flag. Even the continental United States, an emerging haven of refuge. You can also hear the rumble of the Chinese chariot. For the sake of his own life, Singh decided to stay in the princely state, and in order to reduce his future property losses, he still needed to find a way to cure the plague.
For this surging plague, the surrounding indigenous doctors have not found a good cure, and one of the dozens of people can be saved. There's also an element of luck. Helpless, Singer first thought of the church in the West.
It is precisely by relying on the rapid curative effect of Western medicine on some diseases that the Western Church has knocked on the door of the spiritual world of ancient civilized countries with glorious histories in the past. The prosperity of Western civilization demonstrated by large-scale industrial production has caused the people of various ancient civilizations to abandon the indigenous medicine that their ancestors have been silent after generations of practice, and become superstitious about the Western medical system that is still being scientifically deduced.
Singer, who needed to consider the attitude of the British suzerain, tried even harder to pretend to be a Western-minded doctor, and soon contacted the church doctor.
"Penicillin! Just a little penicillin can cure all diseases! "Father Gary had already been exposed to the plague, and even the people in the church had fallen, and he was helpless enough to throw out the almighty penicillin.
When the base was selling this miraculous drug abroad very early, Meng Xiang also played the name penicillin, which is easy to confuse. The Western world, while amazed at the miraculous efficacy of this medicine, also remembered this name, which was branded with another trace of time and space.
Singh's chubby face collapsed all at once.
He knew the miraculous effects of penicillin, and he knew how expensive penicillin was. Anyway, the same volume of gold will never be bought. Even big cities like Mumbai are priceless. Not to mention his small princely state, which is less than 100 square kilometers.
He shook his head, then stopped paying attention to the groans outside. Since penicillin is effective. He was relieved that at least the wealth in his treasury was enough to exchange for penicillin for peace for him and his family. As for those fart people, life and death are up to heaven, who will care if they live or die?
Not only did he think so, but many princely princes and officials in India had taken the same attitude of letting the plague develop and resigning it to fate. But the Western civilization of Europe cannot afford to ignore the lives and deaths of the people.
Europe's fart people have not had time to express their happiness, and they are in the quagmire of war in the midst of a massive flu that has swept through them.
Great wars will inevitably lead to plagues, and the Europeans are aware of this.
The war has led to the collapse of the most rudimentary health systems, making it difficult for people to pay attention to diseases and politicians on the battlefield and at the negotiating table. Some diseases that are usually suppressed in a local area can easily erupt on a large scale.
The Europeans were also psychologically prepared, but they did not expect that the plague that would spread everywhere was not the plague or smallpox, but the flu.
People in this era have a certain understanding of influenza A and B. But the Spanish flu, which killed nearly 40 million people after the end of World War I, still left people feeling powerless.
The flu, which seemed to be very mild in later generations and made many people disagree, was a terrifying demon king at this time.
In the era when antibiotics such as penicillin were not yet available, the flu depended more on people's constitution and luck. At that time, the Western world was even less effective against influenza than Huaxia, which already had a complete medical system.
Even now with sulfonamides, many people are not sure in their hearts, and the death of patients who are ineffective with sulfonamides in front of them also proves this.
Fortunately, the effect of penicillin is not bad, and it has become the only hope for those who have not yet developed resistance in this era.
But even Europeans need to face the high price of penicillin.
In this era, because the penicillin made in the base was sold early, it also attracted the attention of the world early.
Although Huaxia won the patent, it did not hinder the development of other countries. It's just that the war disrupted normal production, and the dumping of penicillin to the whole world has also hindered the enthusiasm of some people, and the only countries that can develop their own large-scale production methods are the United States and the United Kingdom.
Other countries are either involved in the war, or because the special effects of sulfonamides can still be dealt with, and some diseases are temporarily sufficient with penicillin dumped by China, so they have not yet pierced the film of the cheap mass production method.
And the Russians had adapted to the spirit of cannon fodder of indifference to life and death, and even if the Germans had already touched the method of mass production of penicillin, they could not organize large-scale actual production for a while. At this time, although the German civil war involved a small number of troops, it was enough to make it difficult for the Germans to return to normalcy.
Originally, Britain and the United States jointly overcame the difficulty of large-scale production of penicillin, but the British did not have a place to produce it. The mainland is fighting, and Canada, the only country with a large territory, is also in the middle of the war, and it is temporarily unable to organize large-scale production.
After several major production plants of American penicillin were recently bombed and destroyed by Huaxia bombers, their production capacity was greatly reduced, and the production of several shadow companies that Meng Xiangsa had left also shrunk. In the case of the Bacillus anthracis incident in the United States and the increase in demand for penicillin, domestic demand is not enough, and there is no talk of exports.
Originally, the Americans did not intend to suppress the high price of penicillin, and a series of recent events have caused the price of penicillin in the international market to rise sharply.
The Europeans, who had been greatly damaged by the war, could only cry out for poverty.
They cursed the damn government as they pawned the only thing of value in their home in exchange for penicillin to the Chinese merchant who had traveled with the Chinese army.
At this time, a piece of news saved the scolding of European governments.
"This plague was created by the Japanese!"
The Europeans and their little friends of purity were stunned by the news.
Doubts continued, but then a series of pieces of evidence were found to confirm the reliability of the news, and the push of governments eager to find scapegoats to vent their national grievances made Europeans outraged. (To be continued......)