Chapter Eighty-Seven: Leprosy is rampant
After the two men were carried back to the dormitory by the intellectuals, they quickly woke up. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The info intellectuals brought them some dry food for them to eat, and the man and woman devoured it as if they had never eaten dry food in their lives.
At this time, Du Jianguo also discovered a strange thing, that is, these two people have no eyebrows, and they don't seem to have been pushed off, and they look more like they haven't grown at all.
A few days later, the village party secretary also came to see the two people a few times, and he told Du Jianguo that there was a reason why the villagers did not want to take them in.
In their coastal area, if there is a dead drift of a man and a woman on the sea, it is most likely because the two people have an adulterous affair before they are sunk into the sea, since they have given their lives to the dragon lord, then who dares to snatch people from the dragon lord? Unless he never wants to go out to sea to fish again!
Du Jianguo listened to the words of the branch secretary, and he could understand a little in his heart, after all, the fishermen here are very superstitious, if they are allowed to do something that violates the ancestral teachings, it is better to kill them.
Now that the words are clear, Du Jianguo and the other educated youths are not going to embarrass the villagers anymore, and letting these two people stay in their dormitory to recuperate is already their biggest concession.
More than half a month passed like this, but the body of the man and the woman was not good, and when they asked them what their surnames were and where they came from, they didn't say anything, but they just claimed that they were two people, and they knew that they ate and slept all day long, and never stepped out of the door......
What makes Du Jianguo even more strange is that no matter how hot the day is, these two people only wear the long clothes and trousers that they wore at the beginning, and the educated youths lend them their thin clothes, but they don't wear them.
These highly educated youths have some sympathy for this pair of miserable people in their hearts, so they have not forced them to do anything in many things, so these two people have lived here for a long time.
Who knew that after a period of time, several educated youths actually got skin diseases, this disease came strangely, and the symptoms were also strange, just now only occasionally there were some red spots on the body, and gradually after the color of these red spots deepened, skin lesions and ulcers began to appear.
At first, the intellectuals just thought that maybe it was because of the lack of vitamins in the food they ate here that everyone suffered from skin diseases, so they didn't pay much attention to it.
However, as more and more educated youths got sick, they had no choice but to go to the village doctor in the village to get medicine. As a result, I found that many villagers also had the same skin disease, and the problem was serious!
If the young people get sick because of a long-term lack of vitamins, but the villagers here are all natives, and they have not had such a skin disease before, then the cause must not be caused by a lack of vitamins!
It was the first time that the village doctor in the village had seen this strange disease, because the medical conditions here were so poor, and the village doctor only had some anti-inflammatory drugs and painkillers in his hands, but the effect was not very obvious after people ate it.
Then things got worse and worse, and not only did the skin of these people with skin diseases begin to fester, but their hands and feet also began to deform, and they could not exert any strength.
Du Jianguo is okay, he doesn't have any red spots on his body, but he often feels numb in his hands and feet, weak limbs, and he is upright and in his prime, he used to sweat a lot when he was working, but now he found that no matter how hot the sun is, he doesn't sweat anymore!
The most headache for him is Xia Qingqing, she is also the first few young people with skin diseases, the medicine given by the village doctor not only has no effect, but after taking it, it is getting more and more serious, and now her face has begun to have red spots.
At this time, Du Jianguo and the others began to wonder if there was some kind of infectious disease in this place, so that so many people could get this strange disease one after another? So they found the village party secretary and asked him to call the township and ask the county government to send a doctor to see him, otherwise if this continues, they are afraid that the epidemic will be difficult to control.
Although the movement was still in full swing at that time, several doctors from the county hospital were also sent to the countryside. However, the director of the Revolutionary Committee at that time still attached great importance to this matter, after all, if there was really any plague, there would be more deaths by then.
Therefore, the director of the Revolutionary Committee personally made the decision, asked several doctors who were undergoing labor reform to be temporarily transferred back, formed a medical team, and immediately rushed to Xitouling......
There is a doctor in the medical team named Zheng Jiaxuan who has returned from studying in Japan, because he is the most authoritative among the doctors in this group, so he should be the leader of the team, but when he saw the symptoms of the epidemic reported below, his face immediately sank.
Du Jianguo and the others finally waited for the doctors sent by the county, but as soon as these doctors entered the village, they did not immediately treat the patients, but only asked the village party secretary to find two larger houses in the village, and then isolated all the infected people in the two big houses according to men and women.
At that time, the first symptoms used by the medical team to distinguish whether they were infected or not were red spots and ulcerated skin on the body, although Du Jianguo also knew that there was something wrong with his body, but because he was different from Xia Qingqing, he was not included in the infected population.
However, after the medical team isolated the patient, they did not carry out the next step of treatment, but only organized the remaining people who were not infected to burn the clothes and used utensils of the patients, and then left in a hurry after only giving a few words to the branch secretary.
Du Jianguo was very surprised: Why didn't the doctor they had managed to find see the patient? They went to the village party secretary and asked him what was going on? But the village party secretary was speechless.
Later, under the repeated questioning of Du Jianguo and others, the branch secretary said that Dr. Zheng told him that this was leprosy, which would be contagious, and that the sick people would not be cured at all, and that there was a shortage of medical treatment everywhere, and that these patients could only wait for death......
Du Jianguo's heart sank when he heard this, he had seen the description of leprosy in the book before, and knew how terrible this disease was, and when he thought that his beloved woman also had this disease, he felt a sense of pain.
He wanted to see Xia Qingqing every day, but the two isolated big houses were always guarded by militia inside and out, and they stood guard 24 hours a day, and the patients inside couldn't get out, and people outside couldn't get in.
In this way, as the days passed, the phenomenon of death began to appear among the patients who were quarantined. But although the village has isolated all the sick people, there are still people in the village who continue to get sick and continue to be isolated......