Chapter 9 Influenza
Now that we are talking about the First World War, we cannot avoid talking about the famous Spanish flu. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Many people know the Spanish flu for its premature end to World War I, and for the deaths of more than 20 million people. In fact, the reason why the Spanish flu broke out was not because Spain was the first country to break out, because it was recorded in an American military camp, and there was speculation that it was Chinese laborers who went to Europe, but it was certainly not a Spaniard; Nor is it because Spain has the highest number of deaths, after all, India accounts for more than half of the more than 10 million people, no joke.
The reason why it is called the Spanish flu is because when the war came to 1918, all the participating countries adhered to an absolute principle: the news of the outbreak of the flu that killed countless people was naturally strictly sealed, and Spain, as a neutral country, did not have this scruple and took the lead in announcing the epidemic......
All governments in the world are virtuous.
History didn't take a fork in the road in March 1918, so when John learned that there was a cold epidemic in the American barracks, he knew the demon was coming! Just when almost half the world was embroiled in a great war, this demon was about to take countless lives.
After a long silence, John gave one command after another!
After receiving these orders, from North America to the Far East, from New York to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, countless people suddenly became busy. They are busy producing the latest masks developed by Huntelaar Medical Devices, busy producing the highest grade isolation gowns, and busy producing a wide variety of disinfectants and related medicines. Although John knew that with the current state of technology, the chances of these drugs working were almost zero, but that did not prevent Huntelaar Pharmaceuticals from producing and storing them at full strength, after all, even a placebo would work in a moment of despair......
While urging the production of these products, John published a paper in the New Medical Journal.
The paper is based on John? In addition to describing the ongoing flu outbreak in the United States, Huntelaar "speculated" that the cold would soon spread to Asia and Europe, and that it would not be too severe. But in the second half of the article, John? Mr. Huntelaar asserted that in the second half of the year, in August and September 1918, there would be a second outbreak of influenza!
This outbreak is really a life-threatening outbreak!
In John? In Huntelaar's paper, he judged that at least millions, if not tens of millions, of people would die in this outbreak, and that Europe and India would be the hardest hit! Therefore, he strongly appealed to all European countries, including China and the United States, to immediately stop this war, which has killed and injured millions of people, and make every effort to deal with this imminent and huge crisis!
As soon as the paper was published, it immediately caused a huge sensation!
If any physician or scientist were to publish this paper, it would have been met with endless ridicule and ridicule, but if that person was John? In the case of Huntelaar, the situation is completely different. There is no doubt that John was the most influential physician of his time, and he was also called the greatest physician by many, especially when the war in Europe lasted for four years and countless people were saved on the battlefield by the knowledge of the Huntelaar system, his prestige reached its peak completely!
Yes, military doctors in all countries today have almost completely embraced the surgical emergency techniques of the Huntelaar system.
According to the statistics of various countries after the war, the surgical technology of the Huntelaar system has saved at least 80,000 people from amputation, and the destroyed appearance of more than 16,000 people can be "basically seen", and at the same time, the drugs, disinfectants and medical devices developed by Huntelaar Pharmaceutical have saved hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives!
It can be said that the First World War completely brought Huntelaar Pharmaceuticals and Huntelaar Medical Devices to the altar.
And this time John? Huntelaar personally spoke out to warn the countries about the dangers of this flu epidemic, which naturally attracted the attention of many people! In particular, the U.S. government and the Chinese government received John's personal warning at the first time, and their absolute trust in John led the two governments to immediately issue an executive order and begin to purchase masks, isolation gowns, disinfectants and other materials in large quantities. Of course, the Chinese government was so poor that it quickly accepted a huge donation of $15 million from the Huntelaar consortium to produce the most basic preventive materials.
At the same time, John also sent a medical team to China.
A massive medical team of up to 40 people will be responsible for promoting John's designated prevention system and instructing local Chinese physicians. Fortunately, the doctors of the Huntelaar department in China have occupied an absolute advantage, and the Chinese Medical Association has also given full support, so it has become one of the countries that attach the most importance to this "preview" after the United States.
Compared with China and the United States, other countries have not paid so much attention to this "teaser" paper.
Although the physicians of all countries listened very carefully and made suggestions to the government - they had much more confidence in Mr. Huntelaar than the government - no government really took this matter seriously at this critical stage when the war was heating up. You know, if it is carried out according to John's proposal, it means that governments must invest huge human, material and financial resources, which is how acceptable to them, who have almost been drained by the war?
Pretending to be deaf and dumb has become the mainstream response of governments.
Of course, John won't care about this, because he knows that the flu in the first half of the year is not too harmful, and he will not teach these guys a profound lesson until the second half of the year! You know, in the United States, there were 200,000 deaths a month, and the average life expectancy in 1918 was reduced by 12 years!
What John has to do now is to take care of the situation in the United States and China.
Of course, in addition to these two countries, Johann sent more than a dozen telegrams to Germany in succession, trying to persuade the doctors there to accept his "inference" -- he desperately wanted to keep the Germans alive and prolong the war longer. Perhaps this will greatly increase the losses of the Chinese army, but it will buy more time for development, and if the war can be extended by a year, both the Huntelaar consortium and China will gain more benefits......
Fortunately, the Germans were a little easier to convince than the British and French.
This is also thanks to John? The huge influence of the name Huntelaar in Germany, even because the Huntelaar consortium provided Britain and France with advanced weapons and a large number of loans, there are many people in Germany today who hate John to the core, but for those doctors, they believe in John's personal strength in the field of medicine.
So......
To the extent possible, the Germans began to produce the anti-control supplies and corresponding medicines recommended by Johan, and stored them for the second half of 1918......