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Volume 2 Hoisting the Sail, Chapter 38 to 39 Chapter 1132 Plague

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    "The cake seller! This is simply hell!" Father Gary carefully watched his steps, blocked his nose while making the sign of the cross in front of his face, and exclaimed after quickly leaving the place.

    The weather in India in May is enough to evaporate the smell of the dying or dead corpses lying in the distance, and even every breath of air exudes a disgusting smell.

    "Father, look, is there any good way?" The local prince Singer, who had not moved next to him, flicked his index finger to let down the heavy curtain to isolate the outside world, while enjoying his fat face.  His face came close to Father Gary's.

    He would never pay attention to those idiots lying on the ground.  They have been struggling between life and death for generations, often killing and injuring 1,800 people. As the ruler of this country, His Highness Singh will not even raise an eyelid.  But now he had to actively find a way to save them, because a terrible plague was killing almost all the residents of his territory.

    India is located in the tropics and subtropics. Due to its large population and poor health conditions, it can easily become a breeding ground for certain viruses or pathogenic bacteria.  Countless Indians die from various diseases every year. Asans have long been accustomed to it. At most, they jump into the turbid water of the Ganges, bathe, drink the holy water, and pray for their own safety.

    It is precisely by virtue of their strong reproductive capacity that Indians have defeated generations of diseases, survived various plagues that swept the country one after another, and also summed up some experience.

    This time, when the civilians under their control fell in droves, the managers of the feudal state knew that another round of plague was coming.  They must also take some measures for their own safety.

    But some of the primitive isolation methods passed down from generation to generation no longer work.

    Before any of them noticed it earlier, the poor at the bottom of society had already fallen in droves, spreading the disease to every part of the country.  By the time it breaks out among ordinary civilians or even the upper class with better sanitary conditions, it is already too late.

    The plague was not limited to this one state, all the surrounding states were ravaged by the plague, and even almost the entire India was affected by the plague.  Singh heard that such a case had also appeared in Mumbai.  Only then did he give up his plan to go to Mumbai to escape with his wealth.

    This is also a very popular experience among senior executives in India.

    No matter how severe the plague is.  Not all the lower class people under the rule will die.  It doesn't matter even if they die, since India is so big, there are always some surviving people. As long as they have a little more time, they will multiply on the land in groups.

    It¡¯s just that there is no place to escape now. The British Isles and the European continent, which used to be a haven of refuge, are now immersed in the horror of China¡¯s bloody war flag.  Even the continental United States, a new haven of refuge.  The rumble of Chinese chariots can also be heard.  For the sake of his own life, Singer decided to stay in the princely state, and in order to reduce his future property losses, he still needed to find a way to treat this plague.

    For this raging plague, the surrounding indigenous doctors have not found a good treatment method, and only one among dozens of people can be saved.  There is also an element of luck.  At a loss what to do, Singer first thought of the Western Church.

    It is by relying on the rapid curative effect of Western medicine on some diseases that the Western Church has opened the door to the spiritual world of ancient civilizations with glorious histories.  The prosperity of Western civilization demonstrated by large-scale industrial production has caused the people of various ancient civilizations to abandon the local medicine that their ancestors have practiced for generations, and become superstitious about the Western medical system that is still being scientifically derived.

    And Singer, who needed to consider the attitude of the British patriarch, tried hard to pretend to be a Western medicine critic, and quickly contacted a church doctor.

    "Penicillin! Just a little bit of penicillin can cure all diseases!" Father Gary had already been exposed to this plague, and even people in the church fell. He was also helpless and could only throw out the omnipotent  of penicillin.

    When the base was promoting this miraculous special drug to foreign countries very early on, Meng Xiang also had the bad taste to give it the confusing name of Penicillin.  When the Western world was amazed by the miraculous curative effect of this medicine, it also remembered this name that was marked with traces of another time and space.

    Singer¡¯s fat face suddenly fell.

    He knows the miraculous curative effect of penicillin, and he also knows how expensive penicillin is.  Anyway, you can never buy the same volume of gold.  Even in big cities like Mumbai, prices are high but goods are not available.  Not to mention his small country of less than a hundred square kilometers.

    He shook his head and then stopped paying attention to what was happening outside.Ruowu groaned.  Since penicillin works.  He felt relieved that at least the wealth in his treasury was enough to buy him and his family peace of mind.  As for those bastards, life and death depend on God, who cares about their life and death?

    He was not the only one who thought so. Many princes and officials in India adopted the same attitude of letting things develop and resigning themselves to fate towards this plague as before.  However, the Western civilized society in Europe cannot ignore the life and death of the farts.

    The poor people in Europe had no time to express their feelings of happiness. In the quagmire of war, they were panicking in the midst of a large-scale influenza.

    A war will inevitably result in a plague, and Europeans are aware of this.

    The war has caused the most rudimentary health systems to collapse. People who are busy looking for food can no longer pay attention to the problem of diseases. Politicians on the battlefield and at the negotiation table do not have much energy to care about the problem of diseases.  Some diseases that are usually suppressed in a local area can easily break out on a large scale.

    Europeans also had psychological preparedness, but they did not expect that the plague that was spreading violently everywhere was not the previous plague or smallpox, but influenza.

    People in this era already have a certain understanding of influenza A and B.  But the Spanish flu pandemic that killed nearly 40 million people after World War I still made people feel powerless.

    In later generations, influenza, which seemed mild and was dismissed by many people, turned out to be a terrifying devil at this time.

    In an era before penicillin and other antibiotics were invented, influenza relied more on people¡¯s physical constitution and luck.  At that time, the Western world's effectiveness against influenza was not even as good as China's, which already had a complete medical system.

    Even though sulfonamide is now available, many people are not sure about it. Patients who are ineffective in sulfonamide die in front of them one after another, which proves this.

    Fortunately, penicillin is quite effective and has become the only hope for those who have not yet developed drug resistance in this era.

    But even Europeans face the high price of penicillin.

    In this era, the penicillin produced at the base was promoted early and attracted the attention of the world early.

    Although China has obtained the patent, it does not hinder the research and development of other countries.  However, the war disrupted normal production, and the dumping of Chinese penicillin to the world also hindered the research enthusiasm of some people. The only countries that could develop large-scale production methods on their own were the United States and the United Kingdom.

    Other countries are either involved in the war or because the special effects of sulfonamides can still cope with some diseases. For some diseases, China¡¯s dumped penicillin is temporarily sufficient, so the film of cheap mass production methods has not been pierced so far.

    "The Soviet Russians have adapted to the cannon fodder spirit of being indifferent to life and death. Even if the Germans have discovered the method of large-scale production of penicillin, they cannot organize large-scale actual production for the time being.  Although the civil war in Germany at this time involved a small number of troops, it was enough to make it difficult for the Germans to return to normal.

    Originally, Britain and the United States jointly overcame the difficulties of large-scale production of penicillin, but the British had no place to produce it.  The mainland is fighting, and Canada, the only country with a vast territory, has also fallen into war and is temporarily unable to organize large-scale production.

    After several major penicillin production plants in the United States were recently bombed and damaged by Chinese bombers, their production capacity was greatly reduced, and the production of several shadow companies set up by Meng Xiangsa also shrunk.  When the anthrax incident occurred in the United States and the demand for penicillin increased, domestic demand was not enough, so there was no need to talk about exports.

    Originally, Americans had no intention of suppressing the high price of penicillin. A series of recent events have caused the price of penicillin to rise sharply in the international market.

    Europeans who were severely weakened by the war could only cry out that they were poor.

    While they pawned the only valuable thing in their homes to the Chinese merchants who were running around with the Chinese army in exchange for life-saving penicillin, they cursed the damn government.

    At this time, a piece of news saved the European governments that were being scolded.

    ¡°This plague was created by the Japanese!¡±

    Europeans and their innocent friends were stunned by the news.

    ¡°There are constant doubts, but then a series of discovered evidences continue to confirm the reliability of this news. Coupled with the promotion of governments eager to find scapegoats to vent their national grievances, Europeans are completely angry.  (To be continued)
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