For many people, the flu came too suddenly and violently, disrupting the rhythm of the various countries participating in the war, and making it difficult to carry out some planned things.

The pandemic was not without symptoms, and in April 1918, the first case of influenza in Europe occurred in Exeter. Exeter was the landing site of the American army, where not only American soldiers who came to fight in Europe, but also where some supplies were unloaded and hoarded, as well as soldiers from various members of the British Commonwealth who arrived from the sea to fight in the war.

When the first case of influenza occurred in April 1918, it was not taken seriously by the British, because the Americans did not inform the British of the situation at home!

In fact, in February 1918, there was a widespread outbreak of influenza in the United States! It was someone from Haskell County, Kansas, who brought the virus to Forston Barracks, one of several major training bases for U.S. conscripts, and by March had 36 sprawling camps.

The first time the Forston Military Hospital began admitting soldiers with the flu was March 4. By mid-March, more than 10 percent of soldiers had taken leave of absence because of a cold, and in April, not only did 24 of the 36 barracks have a massive flu outbreak, but 30 of the 55 major cities in the United States have also had outbreaks of circulating cold.

It was an unprecedented cold illness with a horrific fatality rate, and in early April alone, the alarm was sounded in the United States for a medical collapse. Because there is no effective way to treat circulating influenza, most of the people who contracted it died, and the United States ushered in a "black April".

In May 1918, although the Entente countries heard a little about the flu in the United States, they did not pay enough attention to it, and it was only in the British Isles and the northwestern part of France where the American troops landed that the large-scale outbreak of influenza began to occur, and the governments of the world really paid attention to it, but it was too late to pay more attention to it.

Back in the fiefdom of Mecklenburg, Richie had been following the flu movement for a long time, and knew from some sources that the situation on the island of Britain was not good, and the situation in northwestern France was even worse, and the Allied forces had completely stopped military operations and switched to dealing with the sudden outbreak of the flu.

"We're in a bad situation!" Kurt. "We were going to launch a new offensive against the Allied forces, but the flu was starting to break out in our troops, and we couldn't organize an effective offensive," Zeitzler said. ”

Li Qi naturally also paid attention to the movements of the German army on the Western Front, and no one could say how the flu reached the control areas of the German army and the Second Reich, but the virus came in.

Some experts have pointed out that it was the army that captured some Allied soldiers who carried the virus, causing the virus to spread to the German side.

It's useless to say so much, because the disease has spread!

I don't know who heard Li Qi back in ...... No one can say how far in advance, anyway, Li Qi was already doing relevant consulting before the outbreak of the pandemic.

Yes, Li Qi is just consulting, after all, there is no outbreak of the flu, and the virus has not been obtained, how can we develop targeted drugs? Therefore, any virus sample can be predictably developed without obtaining a virus sample, just listen to it or look at it and laugh, don't take it seriously.

The first to go to Mecklenburg to look for Richie were the pharmaceutical companies, and then some intelligence officers from the General Staff Headquarters. Some of the pharmaceutical companies are companies in which Li Qi owns shares, and the people who come here are engaged in some normal business discussions. In addition, some pharmaceutical companies in which Li Qi does not have a stake are here to test whether Li Qi has any scientific research results on influenza. Those intelligence officers from the staff headquarters were very fucked, no matter what they were told by their superiors before they came, the actual situation was that Li Qi treated them well, and then left.

What a joke! If in 1916, even if he had won the Blue Max Medal, even if he had become a household name, Richie would have been nervous when he met an intelligence officer.

Now is the time when the Second Empire is facing collapse, the big guys are busy with their own affairs, the control of the state has dropped to almost a minimum, Li Qi is covered by some big people, and he has his own group, as long as the benefits that may be obtained because of the big flu are thinned out, who still accounts for how Li Qi knew in advance that there will be a big flu?

Because it was a long-prepared relationship, and because of Litchie's reminder that they chose the right direction, when the whole world was in a state of no countermeasures against the pandemic, the German pharmaceutical companies took the lead in making some breakthroughs.

Of course, these are just some breakthroughs, and any breakthrough may be a small step or a big step before the drug is made and proven to be effective, but it will never cross the finish line.

Because of the state of war, formal channels of communication have been cut off, and pharmaceutical companies have requested the United States to enter the country through informal channels, but the request was quickly denied.

The U.S. refused on the grounds that the two countries are now in a state of war. As a result, it was impossible to go to the place where the virus appeared to obtain first-hand information, and all the progress was halted at a certain point.

At Rich's instructions, some French media reported the fact that the United States had refused to allow German pharmaceutical companies to go to the United States for field sampling.

Media reports have made it as if the U.S. government has become the culprit behind the failure to cure the global pandemic. In fact, even if sampling is carried out in the field, targeted drugs may not be developed. However, this is not clear to everyone, and the US government has been a little anxious for a while.

Originally, the United States, the United Kingdom...... and so on, the country is covering up the fact that the pandemic is uncontrollable, and it is being carried out by Li Qi, and then there are some people behind it, no matter what, it is absolutely impossible to cover it up.

The brewing storm slowly became a storm that swept the world, and the US government, which had no intention of halting the conscription program, was forced to stop the conscription, and some countries around the world were forced to refuse to dock American ships under public pressure, of course, because they feared that American ships would bring the terrible flu virus.

The war is in full swing, and the world has a global flu pandemic, and it is in such a troubled year, more things seem to have joined the fierce symphony, whether they want to or not, they have begun to resound their own notes, including the German sailors who refused the orders of the staff headquarters and launched a mutiny at the first time!