[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 438: Fright (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

Ma Zheng knows very well how serious the crisis is now facing the Suicha Military Region, although the scope of the plague has been controlled in Xinghe, Fengzhen, and Zhangjiakou so far, no one can guarantee that it will not break out in all the jurisdictions of the Suicha Military Region in a few days, so Ma Zheng feels that it is first necessary to establish a complete set of effective epidemic reporting systems.

With the passage of time, Ma Zheng deeply felt that the news of this era was closed and people's lack of understanding of the plague made people not aware of the danger even if there was an outbreak of the plague in many places, and it was too late to be afraid, and the epidemic had reached the point of being uncontrollable, so this epidemic report was extremely important.

According to the epidemic reporting regulations formulated by Ma Zheng, from now on, all counties of the Suicha Military Region must establish and improve the epidemic reporting network and reporting system. Rodent prevention institutions at or above the county level should have special personnel responsible for epidemic reporting and epidemic statistics. After a patient with plague is diagnosed, the doctor directly involved in the diagnosis or Lang Zhong shall immediately notify and report to the local government and the garrison.

The person in charge of each county should report to the competent department at the next higher level in the fastest way, and it should not exceed six hours at the latest. If a suspected patient or an unexplained patient is found to have died urgently, it must also be reported to the local rodent control agency or health and epidemic prevention department in a timely manner. If a large number of diseases of unknown origin, dead otters (rats) and domestic animals and other animals are found in the same area, they must be reported to the higher authorities.

For confirmed or suspected plague patients, report cards and report forms must be filled out in a timely manner, and the revised or death report of the higher level government must be reported on time and level by level. Infected animals should be killed immediately and the carcasses should be incinerated.

The second is about the handling of epidemic areas, which is the key to controlling the epidemic, and if the epidemic areas are not handled well, it will bring great difficulties to the prevention and treatment of the epidemic.

Any kind of plague must be detected, isolated, and treated as early as possible, and emergency measures should be taken in a timely manner to deal with the epidemic area, completely eliminate the source of infection, cut off the transmission route, and extinguish the epidemic on the spot. In addition to the current prisoner camps and field hospitals, once the epidemic report is received from other places, the hospital is immediately ready to quickly arrive at the epidemic area, no later than two hours, without delaying the treatment of the epidemic.

In addition, the patient's home and its neighbors should be divided into small isolation circles and cordoned off, and the patients should be strictly isolated and treated on the spot, and samples should be sent for testing. The small isolation circle is thoroughly examined, disinfected, exterminated otters (rats), fleas and wild dogs, and other hygienic treatments.

Those who have direct contact with sick people or corpses must be registered, kept for testing, health isolated, and administered for prophylaxis as appropriate; If the direct contact person travels to another place, the relevant district administrative department should assist in recourse and take the same measures to deal with it.

Focusing on the affected families, part or all of the townships and villages will be classified as quarantine circles, and epidemic areas will be locked down as needed. In the large isolation circle, corresponding measures are taken according to the type of plague, the source of infection, the epidemic situation, the scope of contamination, etc.

In areas adjacent to the epidemic area, the epidemic situation should also be monitored, and necessary preventive measures such as otter (rodent) extermination, flea extermination, and traffic quarantine should be taken. In addition, the government must maintain order and law and order in the epidemic area; Gatherings or other group activities are prohibited in epidemic areas, and traffic restrictions are imposed in epidemic areas.

To confirm the diagnosis, plague control personnel may take the necessary examination materials from the patient or cadacy; If necessary, an autopsy may be performed on the body; The bodies of the plague deceased are not allowed to be buried in the sky, water, or transported outside, and are to be cremated immediately after disinfection by the medical unit that admits the disease. If the conditions for cremation are not met, the medical unit that admits the patient or the local health and epidemic prevention agency is responsible for disinfection, and the body may be buried 500 meters away from the residents and 50 meters away from the source of drinking water, and buried 2 meters below the ground.

Soon, this order, drafted by the headquarters of the Suicha Military Region and Ma Zheng himself, was issued to all military sub-districts, and the epidemic prevention and early warning mechanism was quickly established in various places. However, due to the lack of suitable drug treatment for the time being, a large number of patients still die every day.

What makes Ma Zheng even more sad is that although the nurses, nurses, disinfection workers and burial workers who were temporarily recruited were all required to wear protective clothing and masks, they all turned a deaf ear and hung masks around their necks without wearing them, resulting in many people being infected.

On May 12, Zhangjiakou had more than 525 deaths, the first time since the outbreak of the plague that the death toll exceeded 500 in a single day. On the same day, the death toll in Fengzhen also exceeded 200, and the situation in Xinghe was slightly better, but there were also 177 deaths. What's more, the epidemic has also been found in the suburbs of Shangyi, although it is not very serious, but it is a dangerous signal.

The Japanese army did not take advantage of the fire to loot, although Ma Zheng was slightly relieved, which allowed them to concentrate on dealing with the plague. However, although the Japanese army did not launch a full-scale attack on the Suicha Military Region, it blocked all the roads leading to Beiping, Tianjin, Baoding and other places, and also sent heavy troops to guard them.

On the one hand, they were of course worried about the spread of the epidemic to the occupied areas, and on the other hand, they were controlling the flow of medical equipment and medicines into the Suicha Military Region, and the Japanese army wanted to let the plague wipe out Ma Zheng's headquarters for them.

Since May 12, the number of infected patients in Zhangjiakou and other places has begun to increase rapidly, and the mortality rate has also increased rapidly. Not only did the prisoners who returned from the exchange infected and died in large numbers, but even a large number of soldiers and officers of the Second Integrated Division stationed in Zhangjiakou were infected, and a suffocating panic permeated the entire Zhangjiakou.

By May 15, more than 48,000 people had been infected in the four affected areas of Zhangjiakou, Fengzhen, Xinghe and Shangyi, while the death toll had risen to 3,723, and most importantly, there had not been a single cured case so far.

During this period, Ma Zheng's medical team conducted many experiments, but in the end they all failed, and no effective drug was found to treat the plague. Ma Zheng even asked Wang Jitang to use the precious sulfonamide on the infected, but the final effect made Ma Zheng extremely disappointed. Although sulfonamides have a certain effect on plague, they can only barely control the disease, and cannot completely cure it.

You must know that the sulfonamide drug successfully developed in 1932 is the best drug for the treatment of viral infections in the world today, but I didn't expect that even such a drug has no effect, which is really annoying.

On 16 May, the Nationalist Government sent good news to the Suicha Military Region through the intelligence network of the Military Command Bureau. After learning of the outbreak of a large-scale plague in Chanan, Dr. Wu immediately expressed his willingness to return to China immediately to help the Suicha Military Region to eradicate the plague.

However, because Wu Liande is still in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, even if the Nationalist Government uses secret forces, he cannot be allowed to appear in Zhangjiakou immediately, and it will take one week to arrive in Zhangjiakou at the earliest.

In addition, the Nationalist Government also said that Dr. Wu also had to mobilize overseas Chinese in Nanyang to raise funds for the plague and recruit a group of doctors, and he was very worried about whether the medical and health conditions of the Suicha Military Region were sufficient to eradicate the plague, so he had to make all preparations before coming, so it was very likely that he would arrive a little later.

In addition to these, Dr. Wu Liande also brought some medicines to the Suicha Military Region through the military command department, and asked the doctors of the Suicha Military Region to test the effect clinically, and it is said that Wu Liande was very confident in this medicine.

After hearing the news, Ma Zheng was naturally very happy, but when he saw several large bottles of white round pills, the sense of surprise suddenly disappeared without a trace, and all that was left was fright, because Ma Zheng recognized at a glance that the medicine provided by Wu Liande should also be penicillin medicine.

But as far as he knew, penicillin should not have been present at this time and place, and it was only in 1938 that someone began to try to purify this miracle drug ten years after Fleming discovered penicillin bacteria, but the results were very bad.

The result of every experiment was a failure, not to mention the finished penicillin drug, not even the pure penicillin liquid used in the laboratory. Where did this Wu Liande get the penicillin medicine, and there are quite a few of them, there are more than 1,000 tablets in two large bottles. (To be continued.) )