1855 United States Tycoon

When Scrooge got off the train from Panama Station, he suddenly had a strange, time-spaced familiarity, because the entire Panama was shrouded in a choking smog with the smell of fireworks. It brought back Scrooge's autumn memories of the imperial capital in his previous life.

The entire platform was covered with a layer of wood and gray-black soot that fell from the burning of coal. Even though he had worn a mask long ago, Scrooge was still choking with a cough.

Getting into the carriage in a hurry, Scrooge pulled down his mask and asked Bob who came to meet him: "What's the matter?"

Bob replied: "Mr. MacDonald, didn't you send me an article called "Possible Transmission of Disease"? This article was published in a Panamanian newspaper. It mentioned that insect bites are also common. The way the disease spreads. Although it is not yet known how yellow fever is spread, Panamanians feel that all possible ways of transmission must be dealt with, um, so now the entire Panama is burning things indiscriminately, and they think this can catch up. Mosquitoes that may spread yellow fever by walking."

"That's okay?" Scrooge was taken aback. "Maybe this will cause a lot of pneumonia or bronchitis, right?"

"Isn't it?" Bob replied, "but that's better than yellow fever."

"How is the situation at the workers' camp?" Scrooge asked.

"It's not good, it's not good, people are dying every day."

Just like Bob said, the epidemic in the labor camp is still developing, and the bodies of hundreds of people are carried out of the Japanese labor camp for cremation every day. In that era, even in the West, the most common burial method was still burial. But for people who died of the plague--although the bodies of people who died of yellow fever were no longer infectious because they were not bitten by mosquitoes--but those who did not know the principle of yellow fever transmission at that time were all caught This kind of violent infectious disease was terrified. If it weren't for the people in Blackwater to stop it, some local guys would even want to directly fire the entire labor camp with the dead and dying ones. And those Japanese who were suspected of being human who were not dead for a while, so as not to spread the plague to their noble white people.

Under such conditions, the body of the deceased can of course only be cremated. Fortunately, there are many trees in Panama. The person responsible for cremating the corpse is now laying a layer of logs on the ground, and then laying a layer of corpses on it, and then pour some kerosene (because most of the logs are wet, do not pour kerosene at all. Just light it without burning), and then cover it with a layer of logs, place the corpse, and pour kerosene... Finally, the whole pile is three meters high, and then a torch is thrown over, and the whole pile is flamed. Surrounded.After a few hours, the flames gradually diminished, and the staff wearing thick masks used long iron hooks to poke open the fire, let the contents burn through, and then waited until the ash pile was cold, and someone came over. , Picked up a shovel, shoveled up a little ashes at will, and poured it into the boxes that read such as "XX Jiro" and "XX Taro". Of course, this is only the treatment that samurai has. Who cares about this and those guys who don't even have a surname?

Of course, because the samurai master has also died a lot, it is inevitable that something will go wrong. For example, when Supervisor Hitoshi Kuroshima returned home more than a month later, he directly scared his wife into a faint. Because his wife received his "cremains" just a day ago.

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Scrooge took a short break in the hotel, and then planned to go to the workers' camp for a show...Oh, habitually speaking, it should be inspection and guidance. In order to avoid really contracting the damn yellow fever, Shi Gaozhi made full preparations.

First of all, others don't know how yellow fever and malaria are spread, but Scrooge absolutely knows. So Scrooge took a series of measures to ensure the absolute safety of own.

The first is clothing. Although Panama is truly a tropical region, Scrooge still wears a long suit from head to toe. Long, thick clothes should be enough to block the deadly mosquitoes in the tropics, but for safety, Scrooge put on a thick mask on himself again-he knew that yellow fever did not It cannot be transmitted through the air, but by doing so, the face can be protected from mosquitoes. Then there are bare hands and thick gloves. In addition, although there is hair on your head, you still have to wear a hat as a precaution.

After wearing it like this, looking at the full-length mirror in the hotel, Scrooge suddenly thought of Belikov somehow.

Such heavily armed forces did not make Scrooge feel absolutely safe. He also prepared a mosquito repellent potion for himself. Produced by MacDonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company, the mosquito repellent effect lasts for up to six hours. It's just that it hasn't had time to go public. Scrooge used it to spray all over his body again and again, until he could smell the mosquito repellent water through a thick mask, he was relieved, and he went out of the hotel and sat down. The carriage went to the workers camp with the other doctors.

According to Scrooge's suggestion, other medical staff are also dressed in this style, with long white coats, masks, hats, and white gloves. Then sprinkle mosquito repellent water on the body-if someone asks, they say that it is to suppress the smell of corpses in the camp.

It took an hour for the carriage to arrive at the labor camp. It should be said that if Panamanians came to look at the layout of the labor camp seriously, they would be much less worried about the disease extending from the labor camp to Panama. The entire labor camp is like a strong fortress, with a three-meter-high log wall and barbed wire on the wall. Outside the wall, there is a sentry post every tens of meters. Standing on it was a soldier wrapped in black water.

The gate of the camp was opened, and under the escort of a group of soldiers with live ammunition, rescuers headed by Scrooge walked into the world The Underworld.

"How is the situation here today?" Scrooge asked Dr. Heim, who had been here all the time.

"Very bad. Up to now, more than 500 people have died. According to the statistics of the number of deaths, it is inferred that by the early morning of tomorrow, the number of deaths exceeds 1,000. There is no problem at all." Dr. Haim replied.

"How about the inference and investigation of the mode of transmission of the disease after statistics of the various conditions of the patients?" Shi Gaozhi then asked.

"Mr. MacDonald, according to our investigation, the possibility of the epidemic caused by contamination of food and drinking water has been basically ruled out, and the remaining is droplet infection and insect bite infection. So our medical staff are all targeting this. Two possible measures have been taken. So at least for now, our medical staff have not been infected."

"Very well, then let's go to the camp and take a look." Scrooge said.

"Okay." Heim replied.

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"This person's name is Sasaki. The illness that started a week ago was very dangerous, but now his body temperature has dropped. Except for the weakness of the limbs, all other symptoms are alleviating." Dr. Haim pointed to a patient and asked the history Gao Zhi said.

"So, this lucky guy will survive?" Scrooge asked.

"That's not necessarily true. He still has some symptoms of arrhythmia at the moment. The electrolyte balance in the body has not been fully restored. Of course it is much stronger than before, but it is difficult to say whether it will survive, but in general, survive. The hope is still great." Heim said.

"How many people are there like this?" Scrooge asked.

"Less than ten percent." Heim replied, "In addition, the company's new antipyretic drug, aspirin, proved not to be suitable for the fever of this disease. According to our records after use, the patient's bleeding after the use of aspirin Symptoms have been significantly worsened. Some patients died of vomiting blood soon after taking aspirin. Therefore, physical methods can only be used to reduce the temperature."

"These things must be recorded systematically, which is too precious data for us." Scrooge said.

The two walked out of the ward and continued to walk along the road in the workers' camp under the escort of the soldiers in Blackwater.

"Our manpower is still not enough." Dr. Heim said, "so it is not possible to record the detailed process of each patient from onset to death. However, we still do our best to record all kinds of data. At present, we probably There are more than 5,000 complete case records from onset to death, and there are about 2,000 incomplete. In addition, there are more than 200 records of the response of more than 200 drugs in the treatment of patients, as well as the comparison situation... The opportunity for this is really rare."

At this time, a team of paramedics came over with a stretcher, and Scrooge and Heim stepped aside.

The paramedics carried these stretchers here and put them down, then took down a small book hanging on the stretcher and handed it to a small house. Then they returned to the stretcher, lifted the stretcher, and carried it directly to the cremation area.

"What about the patient's other items?" Scrooge asked.

"Of course they were all burned." Heim replied, "Look at that way."

Scrooge looked in the direction of his fingers and saw a group of people carrying wooden beds toward the cremation area. These wooden beds will also become fuel for burning their corpses.

"Oh, I forgot to ask, how many people have died this time so far?" Scrooge asked.

"More than 6,000 people have died. It is estimated that if we let go, about 10,000 people will die in the end. If we continue to actively treat with various drugs, about 12,000 people will die." Heim replied Say.

"For the advancement of medicine, the medicine must not be stopped!" Scrooge said firmly.

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