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When he returned to his residence from the street, Wu Liande still couldn't get out of his anxiety, and couldn't help but breathe heavily several times before he could barely calm down. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It has only been five or six days since he arrived in Harbin, but for Wu Liande, these days are as long as months. Especially when he saw that some family members of patients threw their bodies on the street at night in order to avoid police inspection and mandatory disinfection, he felt an irrepressible anger, and he didn't know when it was about to explode!

The number of people getting sick and dying is increasing dramatically every day!

But Wu Liande did not have much good to do about it, because even if he sent an urgent telegram to Beijing, even if Shi Zhaoji gave him the greatest support, the several control plans proposed by Wu Liande could not be thoroughly implemented - except for recruiting more doctors. Wu Liande was pleased to learn that his old friend, the chief professor of the Beiyang Medical School, the Frenchman Mesny, was on his way to the road - of course, what he did not know was that this old friend would cause him trouble......

Blocking traffic and isolating epidemic areas sounds simple, but it's hard to do!

Just four or five years after the Russo-Japanese War, the situation in the northeast region was complicated, and the Chinese, Russians, and Japanese restrained and fought each other. Harbin belongs to North Manchuria, which is considered the sphere of influence of the Russians, while South Manchuria is Japanese, so how difficult is it to block traffic? As for the isolation of the epidemic area, it is more difficult to implement, foreigners may be better to say, after all, they know a little more about modern medicine, but it is difficult to convince the Chinese.

The corpses thrown on the street were enough for Wu Liande to understand this.

In fact, not only ordinary people, but also those selected to assist Wu Liande have a hard time recognizing the danger, such as the temporary recruitment of nurses, nurses, disinfectants and burial workers, although they are required to wear protective clothing and masks, but they all ignore them, and the masks are hung around their necks and not worn, because wearing masks is really uncomfortable. And some TCM practitioners who tried to fight for a piece of the pie during this plague outbreak or who were "offended" by Wu Liande as chief medical officer of epidemic prevention also began to attack his epidemic prevention measures wildly......

In just a few days, Wu Liande felt like he was several years older!

"No, no!"

After a short pause, Wu Liande suddenly stood up again: "They must be persuaded to realize the difference between this plague epidemic...... After a while, people will return to their hometowns for the Spring Festival, and by then it will be too late! ”

Clenched his fist hard, Wu Liande's teeth clenched.

Harbin is the world's largest soybean distribution center and trading market. A large number of laborers from Shandong and Zhili provinces gathered here to enter the northeast. In addition to the general labor force, thousands of small traders also move north with the seasons. Although there is no precise statistic on this part of the floating population, according to local officials, there must be 100,000 people. Now that it is the end of the year, according to the traditional concept of Chinese, they must do everything possible to return to their hometowns for the New Year, and these huge groups of people will inevitably include a large number of plague infected people, once the large-scale Spring Festival homecoming wave begins......

Thinking of this, Wu Liande couldn't help but shudder!

"Whew!"

Wu Liande got up from his seat and walked around the room with an anxious face!

After coming to Harbin this time, the careful Wu Liande soon discovered a strange fact, the outbreak this time obviously had a lot of conflicts with his previous understanding of the plague. When talking to the two doctors from Mukden, Dr. Yao also described the phenomenon he had observed: the houses in Fujiadian were low and dirty, the doors and windows were closed in winter, and the air was not well circulated, and one person in the room was infected and the whole family was quickly infected - so he suspected that the disease was not plague, but an acute lung inflammation that spread from person to person through droplets and breathing!

Of course, Wu Liande will only scoff at this kind of argument.

Yersinia pestis was detected in several corpses, which made Wu Liande confirm that this was an epidemic of plague and that the inflammation of the lungs was purely conjectural. But at the same time, Wu Liande also heard about another thing, that is, before he arrived in Harbin, the Japanese South Manchurian Railway also sent a Japanese doctor to investigate the cause. This Japanese doctor is not an ordinary person, but a student of the famous Kitasato Shibazaburo. His suspicion was also plague, so as soon as he arrived in Harbin, he immediately hired people to catch rats, hoping to find plague bacilli in mice. However, hundreds of rats were dissected in a row, but the Japanese did not find a single case of rats with plague bacteria......

After referring to these discoveries, Wu Liande had a whim and boldly put forward a conjecture, that is, the plague epidemic in Fujiadian does not need to be transmitted by mice, but can be transmitted through droplets between breaths!

Without a doubt, this is an absolutely bold conjecture!

The world's medical understanding of plague has been based on animal transmission, and this idea has been accepted almost all over the world - with the exception of Mr. Huntelaar as far away as North America. And this pneumonic plague named by Wu Liande will undoubtedly be a provocation to many plague experts!

Of course, Wu Liande's theory could not be recognized.

"Perhaps, I should try to start with foreigners!"

After muttering for a long time, Wu Liande finally made up his mind, put on the hat he had just taken off, and hurriedly ran out......

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December 30, the last day of 1910.

For Harbin, the northernmost part of China, this is undoubtedly the coldest time of the year. In fact, even in normal times, there are few people on the streets at this time, and everyone prefers to stay in a warm home. After the outbreak of the plague, the streets of Harbin were even more deserted, and there was no need for anyone to go out on the streets.

But after nightfall, a car was still driving on the streets of Harbin.

The BMW, which was specially allocated to Wu Liande, was donated by a Russian businessman. However, a car that costs no more than 500 dollars in the United States will cost more than 1,000 after it is transported to the Far East, after all, those who can produce cars in these years are only a few powerful countries, and the Russians do not have this strength, and the Japanese, who have just started their industry, do not even think about it, so they can only import complete vehicles from the United States.

But sitting in the BMW, Wu Liande still felt waves of cold currents all over his body.

In the past half a day, Wu Liande has visited the consulates of several countries in Harbin, including Russia, France, Germany, Japan, etc., but without exception, no one believed his words. Europe was originally the homeland of the plague, and with the plague raging in Harbin these days, the consuls were naturally clear. Because of this, they scoffed at Wu Liande's "delusions", or the experts behind them scoffed at it - everyone knows that the plague is transmitted by animals, isn't it ridiculous that this Chinese is so whimsical that he thinks that it is transmitted through droplets?!

The successive encounters made Wu Liande extremely disappointed.

However, on this cold night, he still did not give up his last hope, so the car was now driving to his last destination: the U.S. Consulate in Harbin! Roger at the U.S. Consulate? Mr. Green Wu Liande had met once yesterday and knew that the other party was very much in favor of his epidemic prevention ideas, so this was his last hope.

The worried Wu Liande did not notice the row of large trucks parked at the gate in the dark night until he entered the US Consulate: a water of Huntelaar products, large guys with a load capacity of several tons, and there were extremely large numbers, from the end of the alley to the end of the alley, and there was still no end in sight.

In Harbin in 1910, this kind of truck was a rarity!

Of course, it is even more impossible for Wu Liande to know that these trucks all arrived in Harbin this afternoon, and at this time, a team of more than 10 people has just arrived in the US Consulate, and the arrival of these people will bring earth-shaking changes to his epidemic prevention work in Fujiadian, Harbin, and even in the whole northeast...... (To be continued.) )