1855 United States Tycoon

For Asians, yellow fever is a disease they have never seen before. This virus seems to only exist in regions outside Asia, such as the primitive jungles of Africa and America. Therefore, in Asia, yellow fever is much less famous than smallpox, cholera, plague and so on. But in fact, this thing is really infected, but it is not worse than these things.

The first time Europeans saw the power of this thing was in Haiti. In 1801, the blacks of the French colony of Haiti declared their independence. At that time, the emperor Napoleon, who was in full swing, immediately dispatched an army of 25,000 to suppress it. The black people were of course powerless to resist, so they had to get into the primitive jungles of Haiti. The French army also followed in recklessly. A week later, the French army escaped from the rain forest in embarrassment, and the army of 25,000 men was only left with less than 3,000 men. And Haiti also won the War of Independence in a reversal. What made such an army almost wiped out? The answer is yellow fever.

Yellow fever is a disease caused by a deadly virus transmitted by mosquitoes. Note that the disease is not bacteria, but viruses, which means that the sulfa in Shi Gaozhi's hands has no effect on it. In fact, in this era, there is no drug that can resist this virus at all. As long as anyone is infected with such a disease, whether it is alive or dead, basically it can only be seen by God. In addition, because the virus is too small, under the technology of this era, the microscope cannot see the yellow fever virus at all. Therefore, in this era, people are also ignorant of how it is transmitted.

Even worse, this thing actually has an incubation period of three to six days. The average person has almost no uncomfortable reaction for three to six days after contracting the virus. This gives plenty of time for the spread of the virus. Especially in a densely populated area, after a mosquito bites a person infected with the virus, in such a long period of time, it may bite all other people around. Therefore, once the disease starts to break out, you will find that almost all people who may have contracted this disease have already contracted this disease.

Today, the same has happened to Japanese workers who have entered the jungle. At the beginning, one or two people began to experience a series of symptoms such as high fever, cold fear, headache, fatigue, loss of appetite, and nausea. This symptom, of course, was immediately diagnosed as a bad cold by the doctors.

The cold is caused by a virus, and there was no particularly effective way to deal with it at the time. The most effective way is to give him a tablet of heroin to make the patient feel better, and then wait for it to heal. (By the way, many cold medicines now only relieve symptoms.) But heroin is such a powerful masking agent. If you eat this thing, any uncomfortable symptoms will disappear immediately, except for a high fever. Before retreating, the patient doesn't even feel any special discomfort anymore, and some guys can even go out to work without an axe. So almost everyone, including the Japanese, said that heroin is really a good thing. Without it, how would human beings face various diseases?

However, heroin cannot really kill the virus after all, it can only relieve symptoms by paralyzing the nerves. So if you encounter a cold like most common colds without treatment, you will get better after two weeks. Of course, it is a magical medicine. However, once you encounter a disease that cannot kill germs or viruses, there are almost no such things. It will make you die more comfortable, and it may work faster. Originally, yellow fever has an incubation period of several days. Using Shanghai Luoyin means that the incubation period is suddenly longer. In addition, in order to deal with the symptoms of weakness, so that the workers can continue to work with the disease, although Shi Gaozhi I didn't plan to actually dig through the canal, but do more. Next time I really plan to dig through it, wouldn't it be possible to do less? Besides, these Japanese workers are dead anyway. They are already being consumed as consumables. Isn’t it right to pay more for the cost before they are consumed?

However, the effects of psychotropic drugs always have their limits. Whether it is heroin or methamphetamine. When the physical foundation of the body has been destroyed, these things will only make people die faster. So a few days later, a large area of ​​Death began to appear.

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"Kojiro, what's the matter with you?" Sasaki Majiro was holding the axe just now, and suddenly throwing the axe aside, asked Kojiro who retched.

At this time, Kojiro was already speechless. He only retched at first, and then began to vomit and vomit blood after mouthful-this is the third stage of yellow fever, which is the most serious and dangerous poisoning stage. His typical symptoms, once such symptoms appear, then he is not far from Death.

Sasaki didn't know anything about yellow fever, but when he saw a person vomiting blood, even if he was dull, he knew that the situation was very bad.

Kojiro got used to vomiting and vomiting--ah, that's wrong, because he was vomiting and vomiting, his leg became soft, and he fell to the ground and passed out into a coma.

"Quickly, lift him up and go to the doctor!" Sasaki shouted, and at the same time, his heart suddenly tightened, as if being held by a cold paw, almost all Can't beat anymore. He remembered that a few days ago, almost everyone in their team, including himself, had contracted a "severe cold." At that time, his headache seemed to be splitting. Then the doctor gave them a medicine called heroin. If this is really amazing, after taking it, the headache will disappear after a while. At that time, Sasaki also sighed, how come Oni's cold is so terrible, but fortunately, Oni's medicine is also very powerful. It's just that there are still some problems with the whole body, so there is a double dose of Dabuwan on it, um, this thing, the Japanese thinks the name is too ugly, so they gave it a Japanese translation called "North American Daibuwan". A few years later, when a bunch of life winners from the Tongmeng Club were learning from Japan’s experience, they also fell in love with this refreshing, refreshing and replenishing stamina medicine, so they took some back to China and gave it back. It took another name called "Dongying Dabu Wan".

The effect of "North American Dabu Pills" is indeed leveraged. After taking this, everyone has the energy to work again, and then worked for a few days, and then, um, something went wrong. This shows that the disease has not been cured at all. Now Kojiro has fallen, and the next one may be himself. This thought made Sasaki's legs soft and almost fell to the ground.

When they carried Kojiro to the doctor, they discovered that there was more than one person who had been brought back. Only at this time did the doctors discover that the illness everyone had this time wasn't really a bad cold. So after a series of investigations, in the end, the doctors finally remembered the kind of disease they were unwilling to mention: yellow fever.

How to treat yellow fever? The doctors actually have nothing to do. In this era, the only reliable way is to constantly replenish the patient's electrolytes to maintain the patient's electrolyte balance. Well, to put it more clearly is to put normal saline on the patient. Then it depends on the patient’s own good fortune. Regardless of whether it can survive or fail, it’s all about the system, oh, it’s a physical problem.

Well, it was a physical problem. For example, after carrying it back, Kojiro woke up for a while in the afternoon of the next day. There was a young man who was quite happy for him, but Sasaki knew that this was just a reflection. Even Kojiro himself is aware of this, as can be seen from his last words. At that time, Kojiro said: "I originally wanted to save some money, so I went to the comfort station in the city to taste what a woman is like. Anyway, I'm so short, I probably won't find a wife in my life. All...it's a pity, it's a pity..."After talking about two "unfortunate", Kojiro kicked his legs. Less than two hours after Kojiro's death, Sasaki also fell ill. He also began to experience symptoms such as bleeding gums, vomiting, and even fell into a coma.

"I don't know how Michiko is now. If I can't go back, I don't know if Kiyobei ​​can take care of her for a long time..." Sasaki thought before passing out of a coma.

Like a gust of wind, the plague spread quickly among the 10,000 Japanese workers who arrived recently. Within a few days, the symptoms that had been suppressed by heroin and Dali pills suddenly appeared. Now the entire worker camp is dead and almost all the workers have fallen ill. Even the doctor fell ill a lot. As a result, most of the patients are completely unattended and can only lie down and wait for death.

Also on this day, the New York Daily Times reported that yellow fever had swept the entire Panama Canal workers camp. At the same time, the newspaper also published their interview with Mr. Scrooge McDonald. In this interview, Scrooge clearly confirmed the news that yellow fever had swept the workers’ camps. He even told reporters that the current situation will definitely be more serious than what they reported, because the disease will develop very quickly.

"The occurrence of such a situation is really beyond my expectations. It is my fault. As a researcher who studies the causes of diseases and has a little bit of success, I actually ignored the threat of these diseases. This is mine. It’s wrong. Now the local medical force is far from enough, and from the news from there, sulfa has no effect on this disease. In the face of these diseases, our weapons are so lacking. , But we were so proud that we were going to completely conquer infectious diseases. This is so proud, pride is the greatest crime. Now I want to tell you a piece of news, I have arranged the train, I will and The most clinically experienced doctors from the “Salvation” hospital rushed to Panama to treat the patients as much as we could.” Scrooge said while looking at his pocket watch, “We can talk for another five minutes, and then I must go."

"Ah? What? Mr. MacDonald, are you going to the epidemic area yourself? Isn't this too dangerous? You are the richest man in United States!" the reporter asked. The news that Scrooge was going to Panama obviously surprised the reporter. He knew that Mr. Scrooge McDonald was not an ordinary medical scientist, he was the richest man in United States! And such a person, at this time, would actually be willing to put himself in danger in order to save others. What kind of spirit is this? This is the spirit of humanitarianism! Scrooge, who made such a decision, immediately filled the reporter's eyes with the brilliance of the Holy Spirit.

"Yes, there is danger." Scrooge replied decisively, "but it is my responsibility to save lives as much as I can. And I have a greater responsibility for the workers recruited by me. So I have to go. As for the richest man in the United States, sir, everyone’s life is equal before God."

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