Chapter Seventy-Six: Blessing in Sickness

"Of course!" "That's it!" The staff officers listened to this remark and were all enthusiastic.

"But you must remember. Here, our enemies include more than just hostile forces. The Major General looked up at the ceiling, blinked twice, and continued:

"Our enemy is the whole world, including the natural environment of this planet."

The staff officers were immediately dismissed. If they didn't believe this "nonsense" a few days ago. They can build greenhouses to grow vegetables against the season, they can forcibly turn cumulonimbus clouds into rain-fed crops, they can directly level the hills to build bases and runways, and on the other side of the gate they can cross the earth to build isthmuses and canals...... But now they can believe it. Because some of them are fighting on the post with the flu and wearing masks, fortunately their condition is not very serious.

It is true that the pressure brought by the Western Expedition of the Church of the Two Moons to the new Emperor of Elta, Doniva and the new district, is not enough to compare with the wave of the flu pandemic in front of them.

", get boiling water for the old lady......"

Not long ago, Luo Aya, who was still vividly explaining Ohm's law to the Red Dragon Regiment and the seed students who joined the army, floated softly to the bed of Xincheng Hospital before he could take more electricity meters for the experimental class. In the eyes of the nurse, it is good that she can still speak, and someone in the next ward has been put into a ventilator - fortunately, there is no lung intubation, and her condition is quite stable. But from now on, it seems inevitable that Luo Aya will take a week's leave.

The wards on the third floor are all Chinese staff. Although the flu vaccine was received in advance, the flu wave on the Elta continent was a new variety that the domestic people had not been exposed to after all, and a large number of visitors from the other world who were too naïve were inevitably recruited. Fortunately, there was a plan in place for a long time, and the situation is still under control so far. If you don't die Chinese it's fine...... That's what the dean, who was pacing back and forth in his office on the top floor.

The hall on the first floor was full of indigenous patients from the new city. Although the flu is a self-healing infectious disease for adult healthy people, most people can get better by lying in bed for half a day for a week. But this does not prevent the workers and friends of the new district from taking out the steel hammers that should be used for eating, drinking and enjoying to buy some good things that can make them feel a lot more comfortable. The antipyretic patch can be much more comfortable on the head, so as not to be groggy and stumbling, and only ten yuan for five pieces - although a black ticket is not a small amount for ordinary workers, but because most of the people who buy antipyretic patches are parents whose children have a fever and are anxious, this money is nothing at all. It's not like Elta didn't have ice packs before, but unfortunately, the ice packs made by magic ice are limited by the degree of magic diffusion, and they are not something that ordinary people can easily afford and access.

In the hall, the military doctor who was born of seed cadets wore masks and repeated the precautions to the buyers in front of the drug purchase team, such as for fever, pain relief and anti-inflammatory, ibuprofen cannot be used for asthma and stomach problems, and the daily dosage is ...... After holding the patient's hand and talking about this, it is inevitable to stuff a piece of paper with simple and easy-to-understand illustrated instructions.

There are not without the seriously ill among the natives, who were taken to the second floor of the New Town Hospital. Fortunately, Xincheng Medical Institution has already experienced the test of dysentery and typhoid fever, and it is very easy to deal with the sick number of lying in bed. The more serious children who were sent with high fever basically took ibuprofen sustained-release capsules or oseltamivir phosphate, and the effect was wonderful, and the body temperature quickly dropped back to the normal high range. In the eyes of the parents of the child, who were already crying urgently, the Holy Hand healers who were all snow-white and showed a yellow face were now shining like gods all over their bodies, and the language that could only be understood by translation seemed to be a divine voice from heaven...... If it weren't for the fact that the doctor couldn't find out where his thigh was in his white coat, they would have rushed up and hugged his benefactor's thigh tightly. Only a three-year-old doll was more dangerous, and she was admitted to the ICU that few people had enjoyed before. The flu is severe complicated by pneumonia and tracheitis, and now the two parents are sitting outside the ICU and are speechless, and they don't dare to cry and don't know what to do. But this can't be helped, even on the other side of the portal with a complete medical system, there are always people who die every year due to influenza and complications of influenza, toxic shock, and meningitis...... These more dangerous complications are fortunate that the Elta people within the radiation range of the new city have not been hit by these diseases so far.

In Elta, a magician can trick the sick and their loved ones into death and lose their fortune by using magic that has nothing to do with healing. The result? Most of the patients who are not self-healing will inevitably die. And their illness can be cured in Xincheng Hospital with only a few dozen pieces of antibiotics. This is rarely seen in the eastern and central parts of the country, where the concentration of magicians is high, but in the west, where there is a high incidence area. Some of the magicians who live in Garcia and are drunk on money have to go out for a long time every year, except for a position in the Magical Association with no salary. Anyone who knows the details understands that this is a "trip", this is going to the countryside and going abroad to cheat money.

Of course, there are doctors who do not use magic, and the traditional healing techniques of plant herbs and herbal juices are also in market in Elta. There is still room for treatment of minor ailments such as heat stroke and diarrhea, and when encountering plague patients who are "chosen by the devil", whether it is a high-level magician who can help people with flesh and bones, or a three-legged cat magician who learns a little magic and cheats to eat and drink, or a witch doctor who is familiar with the medicinal use of plants, they can only retreat. Don't talk about healing these people, seeing that they are all likely to be killed by demons, and the end result is that you must also be purified in the fire with a wail.

The methods of dealing with plague patients everywhere are indeed so simple and crude. He can also cry out that the struggling patient's family was nailed to the doors and windows in the middle of the night, and the entire house was completely burned down from the outside. Garcia's slums also had such an epidemic more than ten years ago, and finally invited the chief magician of the Bimoon Church to set up a large magic array outside the outbreak zone, directly subverting the entire area and the buildings above, the normal people and patients who were not sick and the soldiers guarding them into the abyss, leaving only a flat loess in the epidemic area. Even the capital has to make such a big move, not to mention the tragic legend that some villages and towns have been affected by the untimely burning of houses. Doctors from other worlds who can cure diseases, magicians who trick themselves into solving self-healing diseases, witch doctors who pretend to be ghosts, and panicked villagers who burn houses at every turn, there is no need to say in detail which is better or worse, and people with a discerning eye should know it at a glance.

Rather than being carried into the hospital parking lot by a battery car painted with a red cross after falling ill, the smarter thing is, of course, to prevent it in advance. The foremen and workshop leaders of each unit use temperature guns to check twice a day, and if the body temperature is not up to the mark, they will not go to work immediately, and will be sent to the hospital for diagnosis and decided to stay in the hospital for treatment or go home to recuperate. It is not a question of how much capacity is lost, as long as the transmission route of the flu virus is cut off, the most important thing is that everyone can return to work after the flu season.

Outside the radiation zone of the new city, the "Elta People's Volunteer Medical Rescue Team", led by Doniva's sister Princess Pégne, is also operating in various places. Civilians and medically trained soldiers of the Doniva Private Army formed Princess Pine's right-hand man, distributing medicines and giving patients more than nothing about initial diagnosis and flu prevention.

Princess Pyne, who has always been reluctant to behave in front of people, suddenly burst out with great enthusiasm for public welfare after receiving her brother's education, and the flu wave in the Doniva territory outside the new city has been greatly alleviated under her activity, and she unexpectedly got the name of the saint in white like everyone else, wearing a white coat and wearing a mask, which can be regarded as an unexpected gain outside of curbing the spread of the flu.

And deeper preventive actions are being carried out in the biological laboratory of the joint research institute building in the new district. Several previous pathogen samples have been frozen and sealed back to the P4 laboratory in Wuhan, but extensive research is still to be carried out in the context of this planet.

Under an electron microscope, the stained influenza virus finally showed its prototype.

"It's still a variant of H3N2...... a female professor showed a satisfied look, purely from the perspective of the virus itself, except for the volatile drift characteristics of the influenza virus itself, it does not pose much threat to Chinese. Although the Earth on the other side of the portal is also in autumn, it is one of the peak flu seasons. But apparently the virus was not carried through the portal by Chinese, otherwise the Elta would have been more sensitive to the virus......

The evidence is growing as the trials progress. Amantadine, a drug that has been clearly identified as resistant to H3N2 in the Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Influenza (2011 Edition), is of course a quick response to the flu outbreak in Elta. Amantadine also had the same effect in subsequent clinical trials, confirming that the flu virus did not come from the portal, but was indeed native to Elta. "Why H3N2?" The problem finally surfaced around the strange rocky reef in front of him. The mouthwash and nasal swab samples collected during this flu wave were all caused by the H3N2 flu virus. On the other side of the problem is the academic carnival of professors and experts, who do not need to measure RNA to know that they have obtained a strain of influenza virus that has not yet evolved drug resistance, which will be an effective help for the prevention of influenza on the earth side in the future. Such results are the truly rewarding rewards of exploration—a valuable resource that goes far beyond the mere colonial obtain.