Health Minister Karl "Landsteiner" tiredly reported back to Ferdinand: "Your Majesty, this is the latest number of patients we have counted, the total number of patients infected with the influenza virus in Bulgaria has exceeded 300,000 so far, and the current death toll is 4,852.

Entering December, the number of flu patients has been greatly reduced, and many have returned to normal, but for the sake of safety, the patients who have been cured are still in the observation stage and have not returned to society! ”

Ferdinand nodded, this number is already good, for the rest of the world, it is simply a miracle!

The concerned said: "I'm sorry for you, let's go and rest first!" This winter, everyone can take a breath first, this season is not conducive to the spread of the virus, and there is still a tough battle to be fought in the spring of next year! ”

Carl Landsteiner replied weakly: "Yes! ”

Obviously, the recent epidemic prevention work has kept him busy, since the epidemic spread to Bulgaria in June, the national martial law began, and the officials of the Ministry of Health no longer have time to repair their vacations, and the most idle department on weekdays has become the busiest existence in Bulgaria!

As a minister, it is natural to lead by example, and Carl Landsteiner also has a good experience of the feeling of being in power, it was okay at the beginning, but then it was tragic, and that thing was so devastating.

(Note: Bulgaria's ministries are also of different grades between ministries, such as: the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of the Army, the Ministry of the Navy, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and other departments with real power are one level higher, and the minister can be called a certain minister.)

The Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Culture and other departments have a lower grade of half a level, and the minister is a certain minister, which is also an unspoken rule. ）

Looking at the exhausted Minister of Health, Ferdinand was also very helpless, everyone had no experience in epidemic prevention for the first time, and many things needed to be decided by their high-level leaders, and this kind of thing could not be done for them!

Only professionals from the Ministry of Health can make decisions, while other departments of the Cabinet government can only assist from the sidelines, and if there is a problem, they still have to make decisions, and the Ministry of Health will naturally be busy!

By the way, the officials of the Ministry of Health are mostly semi-bureaucratic, which is not to say that half of them are bureaucrats!

In fact, all officials of the Ministry of Health can work part-time as medical staff or drug developers, and in addition to temporary positions in the Ministry of Health, many of them have other jobs, and all of them are in the medical field.

This is also caused by the unique national conditions, the lack of medical staff at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, if the Ministry of Health does not use professionals, then this department will be abolished, so at that time everyone was very realistic to choose the art of temporary employment!

Then it was carried forward in the hands of Ferdinand, there was a shortage of medical personnel in the whole country, and he couldn't grab the limited medical resources of the people, anyway, there were not many things in the Ministry of Health, so it continued to this day.

Of course, it is not without changes, he has also added a food safety agency under the Ministry of Health to inspect food safety throughout the country.

It's just that compared with the strictness of food safety, the control of drugs is not so strict, but to crack down on counterfeit drugs and sell fake drugs, the side effects of drugs in this era are already large, and there is no way to control them!

In line with the usefulness of the line, the side effects or anything should not be pursued, otherwise there is no medicine on the market, and the price of drugs with small side effects or no side effects is really not close to the people, at least the middle class can't afford it!

Think about the fact that during the world war, all the major belligerents dared to include drugs in their logistical supplies, and you can see how high everyone's standards are in this era!

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Compared with Bulgaria, which has completely controlled the epidemic, other countries are miserable, and Europe and the United States are fortunate that everyone's medical technology is not bad, and the mortality rate is basically limited.

Even so, the death toll was still quite high, and as of 1918, preliminary statistics on the number of deaths in various countries were:

United States: 512,000

United Kingdom: 200,000 (just including England and Wales), 326,000 in the British Isles

France: 293,000

Germany: 388,000

Italy: 378,000

Spain: 168,000

Belgium: 43,000

Portugal: 41,000

Netherlands: 35,000

Denmark: 28,000

Sweden: 42,000

Switzerland: 32,000

Norway: 18,000

Russia: 560,000

Austria-Hungary: 312,000

The above figures are all guessed by Bulgaria itself, and this accurate estimate is 70% or 80%, and the specific number of deaths may not be officially clear to all countries.

After all, the death of the flu is mixed with the death of other diseases, who can tell the difference? And out of the need for political interests, everyone must also keep the death toll down, so the official death toll announced by various countries is much lower!

If you count the death toll in the colony, this number is very terrible, the British Commonwealth is 20 million+ lords, and it may even be 30 million+ lords, the death toll of India alone is very considerable, anyway, there is no specific death statistics.

Even if there is an epidemic in most areas, no one has dealt with it, and the colonial government has tacitly chosen to sit back and watch the death of the natives, anyway, they don't know how to prevent the epidemic, and they think it is a punishment from the gods, so they all run to ask the gods one by one, and there will naturally be more people who die!

Elsewhere Ferdinand did not know, anyway, the colonial population of Bulgaria had dropped by almost twenty percent in 1918, and at least five million people had died in this flu!

This is all caused by ignorance, when there is an epidemic, I don't know how to seek medical advice, but I go to worship God; After the death of a large-scale patient, I don't know how to dispose of the corpse as soon as possible, and dance around the corpse one by one, is it strange that the mortality rate can be low?

Due to the high number of deaths in the colony, the colonial government had to take action to clean up the corpses in order not to cause a larger plague.

At this time, the superiority of delegating the plane to the company was reflected, and for safety reasons, everyone finally unanimously decided to send the plane, as long as the crew dropped Molotov cocktails from the sky to the ground.

It is not known whether the incendiary flasks will cause accidental injuries to villages with too many dead people, anyway, now everyone does not dare to go to the field to investigate, and they are burned clean!

The consequences are also very obvious, when the epidemic is over, there will never be a single indigenous village in the plains anymore, and even they don't know that the fire that fell from the sky was done by the colonial garrison, and many people thought it was the punishment of the gods, and they didn't dare to live in the original place!

When Ferdinand knew the result, the fire had already been spared, and because it happened in autumn, I don't know how many forests had also disappeared in the fire, so angry that Ferdinand directly ordered to reprimand this group of losers!

And then there is no then, these are fires from the sky, and there is no dime to do with Bulgaria, so naturally everyone does not have to take responsibility for this!

While everyone was celebrating the aftermath of the catastrophe, the Bulgarian Ministry of Health issued another disease warning, claiming that biologically speaking, spring is the peak period for virus breeding, and the epidemic prevention work in 1919 should not be ignored!

This time, the influence is much greater, no one dares to believe it, all governments have learned to be obedient, I don't know how to do it, follow the epidemic prevention work in Bulgaria, right?

In line with the principle that no fault is meritorious, countries continue to maintain a high level of vigilance, although the virus has been lurking inside them, it is simply impossible to prevent it, but this wave of epidemic in the spring is less lethal, so politicians have announced that mankind has once again defeated the disease!

Everyone is unanimously publicizing the efforts made by their government in this epidemic prevention work, and after everyone's unremitting efforts, the "American flu" has finally been eliminated!

Well, this time there are no Spaniards to take the blame, because the Spanish media first started to report it, and then someone put a pot on their heads, and Spain internally called it the "French flu"!

Now there is no need for everyone to argue, the European media has tacitly chosen to return to the original owner, since the epidemic first occurred in the United States, then it is naturally the American flu!

Even when tracing the cause of the virus, some people claimed that there was a chemical plant leak in Kansas before the flu outbreak, and the cause of this flu was probably caused by the chemical plant, and then the Americans were in big trouble!

European countries, including Bulgaria, collectively protested to the Washington government, demanding that they hand over the murderers and compensate the countries for their losses.

The protests in this era are not simple diplomatic protests, the League of Nations directly convened a conference on human security to discuss the formation of a joint fleet, and all countries have the intention of going to war against the Americans!

Well, these are all appearances, such a big thing has happened, the governments of various countries have been ineffective in the initial epidemic prevention work, and they have been criticized by domestic public opinion, and now some people say that this flu was artificially created by the Americans, and this is still right?

Does it matter if it's real or fake? For politicians, as long as it can divert the public's attention, after all, compared with severely punishing the culprits, the government's mistakes can only be regarded as a small part!

The sudden blow made the Wilson administration about to collapse, and now not only is the international government demanding an explanation from the US government, but the people in the United States have also taken to the streets, demanding that the US government severely punish the murderers!

They themselves believe it, anyway, the yellow mud is not in the crotch of the pants, and it can't be washed!

The reason is that before the outbreak of the flu, there was indeed a chemical plant leak in Kansas, which also caused nearly 100 deaths in the local area, only more than 100 kilometers away from the military camp where the epidemic first broke out, with an interval of less than three months, and it was the scene of the blockade by soldiers from the Kansas military camp at that time!

This is even more inexplicable, don't expect scientists to come out and explain useful, ordinary people don't understand so much, the flu just leaked in front of the chemical plant and then there was a flu, although there was an interval of more than two months, who do you say it doesn't matter who you lie?

If not, then why did the outbreak first emerge from a military camp in Kansas? Isn't it because they were the first to be exposed to the virus?

What's more, they still suspect that the Americans were researching poison gas bombs, and as a result, they accidentally leaked, which caused this consequence!

And then Wilson Alexander, if you can't explain the ins and outs, the United States will be finished, the angry American people just want their government to fall, while the angry world people have the potential to make the United States history!

Wilson asked depressedly, "How is Rice, has the origin of the flu virus been traced?" ”

Rice's face sank, and he said in embarrassment: "No, we have held the chemical plants near Kansas accountable, and they all claim that they have nothing to do with them, and the Texas plant that leaked the chemical at the end of 1917 also claims that the leak was just an accident!"

The most troublesome thing is that several senior executives of the Texas factory have had accidents, and the personnel on duty after the accident happened to die in the accident!

The situation is very unfavorable for us, and on the surface it is more like a crackdown, and we have no way of confirming what happened inside the chemical plant at that time!

If the outside world insists that we are developing chemical weapons, and the accident caused this flu, we will not be able to come up with effective evidence to prove our innocence! ”

Wilson's face sank to the bottom, there is no doubt that this is a conspiracy, who was it against at first I don't know, but it just happened to run into this flu, and it became a conspiracy of various countries against the United States of America!

Tens of millions of people have died all over the world, as long as the United States cannot prove its innocence, then they will be in big trouble, don't think that if they dominate the Americas alone, they will have fewer enemies, and in order to dominate the Americas, they have almost become the public enemies of Europe!

Especially the British Empire will not let them go, and now the flu is the best excuse, if it is not acted upon as soon as possible and let John Bull connect the countries of Europe in series, it will be too late for anything!

"Did our scientists come forward to refute the rumors?" Wilson asked

Rice said with a wry smile: "The major medical institutions and scientific research centers in China have made explanations, and they believe that the source of this flu is birds, but this statement is untenable in the scientific community!"

Kansas is not the largest bird habitat in the world, and even the number of birds is not very large, and scientific research institutions in various European countries have said that the chemical plant leak is the core factor in the cause of this flu!

And they also listed a lot of evidence, the Institute of Biology of the University of Bulgaria pointed out: the virus of this flu is different from the past, and the virus that has been found in nature is different, and it is very likely that it is artificially acquired!

Their conjecture is almost caused by the leakage of our chemical plant, and it has also been recognized by the mainstream scientific community in Europe, and the School of Bioengineering of Cambridge University has also publicly stated that they have not found any similar virus in nature so far, and the possibility that the virus is congenital can basically be ruled out! ”

Wilson rubbed his forehead and said, "I'm going to believe this explanation!" Damn the capitalists, don't they have a reasonable explanation? ”

Rice smiled bitterly and said, "It's a pity, Mr. President, just this morning, Mr. Jimsburg, the owner of the Texas Chemical Plant, had a gas explosion at his home, killing all 36 people in his family, including his servants!" ”

Wilson was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, and he bet that if the news spread, the outside world would definitely cause a big uproar, and whoever still believed that the flu had nothing to do with the chemical plant would be an idiot!

Jimsberg is not a small person, he is at least one of the top 30 capitalists in the United States, and he is also a member of the largest consortium in Kansas.

Wilson doesn't even have to track down the murderer, he can't find out anything at all, even if he investigates, it's a matter of a few scapegoats, and he can guess who is behind the scenes!

As for why you want to kill your mouth, isn't it simple? Now as long as the people who have anything to do with the Texas chemical plant want to put aside the relationship, let alone the shareholders behind the scenes, they will definitely be killed!

Don't look at them in the United States, but they don't have much status in the world, and in the face of pressure from all countries in the world, can the US government keep them?

If it were the U.S. government of the world's policeman, maybe it could still be done! If the current US government dares to resist hard, believe it or not, the European coalition will come?

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