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Chapter 480 Spanish Flu

A group of Siberian wolves that ate Claire's guts reached the leap season and migrated to the Caucasus Mountains one after another. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 At this time, the Caucasus was in the midst of a battle between the White Russian Army and the Soviet Russian Red Army, and a group of hungry soldiers hunted wild wolves with the highly pathogenic Xing flu virus, and the flu virus on it reinfected humans and quickly spread out.

At the beginning of April, the first case of human infection occurred in the White Russian army, but it was not taken seriously by the White Russian army.

By mid-April, there was a large-scale outbreak of influenza infection in the White Russian army, and about one-third of the Russian officers and soldiers of the White Army were infected, and very few of them survived for more than ten days, and most of them did not survive for three days. The rapid onset of the disease, the wide spread of infection, and the high mortality rate immediately frightened Kolchak and other generals of the White Russian army.

"We are facing a great threat of a plague, but it is nothing to fear compared to our holy war."

Kolchak said at a high-level meeting of the military department that he hoped to cheer up his subordinates, but he did not know that it was a highly pathogenic flu virus, and thought it was a traditional plague.

At this time, the offensive of the White Russian army had long been much worse than before. In early February, the Red Army annihilated the main forces of Denikin's White Army. Denikin fled abroad, and the Russian baron Wrangel fled to the Crimean Peninsula with the remnants. In March, the remnants of Wrangel returned to southern Ukraine and attacked the Donbass. At the same time, Frunze was appointed commander of the Southern Front. In April, the Red Army took advantage of the large number of wounded and sick soldiers in the White Army to encircle and annihilate 100,000 White troops in the Third Battle of Transcaucasia. Soon captured Kerch and took control of the entire Crimean Peninsula, and Wrangel went into exile.

With the signing of the five-nation pact, all countries are engaged in large-scale disarmament, and the anti-war voices in each country are strong, so the intervention forces of European countries have withdrawn from Russia one after another. On the other side, Tukhachevsky led the Red Army to counterattack the Bolan army and occupy Belarus. March BI near Warsaw. The Bolan Army suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Warsaw in April, with 500,000 of the 740,000 troops defeated, and then the Second Republic of Bolan signed an armistice agreement with Soviet Russia, leaving the White Russian Army alone with the task of encircling and suppressing the Red Army.

In this situation, the White Army had to find a way to save itself.

Chief of Staff Lanlesky then proposed a tactic to counter the Red Army by transmitting the disease to the Russian Red Army.

Soon, Lenleski's tactics were agreed by Kolchak and other high-ranking officials, so the White Russian army immediately went into action.

On April 9, the Russian Red Army again launched an attack on Kolchak's White Army, and the White Army abandoned its position after a little resistance, and at the same time left more than 30,000 infected White officers and soldiers for the Red Army as prisoners.

In order to influence more White soldiers, the Red Army gave preferential treatment to these White prisoners, and as a result, due to the lack of prevention and control of infectious diseases, the highly pathogenic Xing flu virus spread and spread in the Red Army of Soviet Russia.

Three days later, the flu broke out in the Frunze regiments, and a week later it became somewhat uncontrollable, and thousands of Red Army troops died. But Frunze was so overjoyed that he did not dare to report the situation, so more and more Red Army soldiers were infected.

Half a month later, Frunze's Southeastern Front had more than 50,000 people infected, and Frunze could no longer control the situation and had to report the situation.

Upon learning of the situation, the Russian government immediately took emergency measures to try to control the epidemic. However, at this time, the Soviet Red Army was like a mob, looting the original bourgeois aristocracy in Russia, and as a result, the virus had already spread to the Russian people, and in just a few weeks, millions of Russian civilians were infected and hundreds of thousands of people died.

At the same time, the Russian civil war caused a large number of Russian aristocrats to flee to various parts of the world with their families, so a large number of Russians carrying the highly pathogenic Xing flu virus spread the virus to countries around the world. Due to the proximity of Europe as the preferred refuge for the Russians, most of the first infected people entered the European countries alive, and as a result, the disease quickly spread to the local civilian population.

In late April, a large-scale epidemic broke out in Bolan and Romania, and Bolan and Romanian politicians were eager to cover up the truth, saying that the ** armed forces secretly supported by the Soviet Red Army had released poison gas, and pointed the finger at the Comintern.

Soon, the epidemic continued to expand. At the end of April, outbreaks broke out in Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and other countries, infecting millions of people and killing hundreds of thousands. Similarly, the governments of various countries have strictly sealed the news, and some of them have experts who think that it is a plague outbreak, but they have been silenced, because the governments of various countries are maintaining stability at this time, and once the outbreak of the plague in the country is exposed, it will cause serious social turmoil, and the European countries that have just ended the world war cannot afford this kind of toss at all.

The news that the countries of Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Southern Europe and Northern Europe had tacitly blocked the outbreak of the large-scale epidemic, insisting that it was the poison gas bombs secretly dropped by Soviet Russia and the Comintern, which aroused strong international sentiment in each country, and caused the red SE forces that had sprouted in each country to be quickly destroyed and disintegrated, thus consolidating the capitalist ruling order in European countries.

In early May, the outbreak broke out in the Spanish city of Barcelona, where tens of thousands of people infected with the flu virus poured into hospitals for help. Since Spain did not participate in the First World War, the domestic order was stable, and the epidemic was widely concerned by the public, and soon a Spanish journalist exposed the details of hundreds of deaths in the municipal hospital in one day, which immediately attracted great attention from all walks of life in Spain. Rospire, a professor of medicine in Spain, believed that it was a large-scale flu epidemic and called on the Spanish government to take measures.

The Spanish government had no choice but to declare an outbreak of a cold in Spain and asked all citizens to pay attention to preventing the spread of colds.

As the Spanish government publicly admitted that there was a large-scale epidemic of influenza in Spain, and then the governments of European countries announced that the epidemic epidemic broke out in various countries one after another because they could not control the epidemic, but all countries did not admit that the flu broke out in their own country first, and they said that it was the Spaniards who transmitted it to European countries.

The Spanish government was greatly annoyed by this and accused the European countries of shamelessly putting the blame on Spain, but the protests of the Spanish government had no effect, and the European countries tacitly announced that the flu broke out from Spain, and the four countries of Britain, France, Germany and Italy quickly adopted the official international name of the European epidemic, calling it the Spanish flu.

In this way, Spain became the scapegoat for this flu pandemic.

When the Spanish flu was raging in Europe, some Russian nobles took the Trans-Siberian Railway to the Chinese Empire, but due to the long distance across Siberia, it took a month to take the train, and the Chinese Empire used the railway to transport supplies to the White Russian army, so there was only one civilian train to Vladivostok every two months. Before they reached Vladivostok, the infected Russian nobles died en masse, and were seized as plague by the checkpoints of the Northern Military Region of the Chinese Empire, so that the first outbreak of the flu virus failed to enter the populous hinterland of the Chinese Empire, and were basically confined to the uninhabited Siberian wilderness.

However, when the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, Wang Chenhao, learned of the outbreak of the Spanish flu in Europe, he immediately convened an emergency imperial council to discuss countermeasures.

For the first time, the ministers saw Wang Chenhao's nervous expression, and they speculated.

Only Wang Chenhao knows in his heart that the Spanish flu has infected one billion people and killed more than 40 million people in history. This does not include the death toll in China at that time, because at that time China was in the period of the Beiyang warlord Hun War, and no one cared about the lives of the people, let alone statistics. In Wang Chenhao's view, with China's backward medical situation at that time, the death toll must have been astronomical, and Wang Chenhao roughly predicted that no less than 20 million people would die.

Wang Chenhao originally thought that history had changed and there would be no more Spanish flu outbreaks, but he didn't expect it to happen, so he had to make various preparations in advance.

"Your Majesty!" Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi saw that everyone was trying to figure out the holy will and did not speak first, so he had no choice but to put forward his views first.

"I think that although the epidemic has spread to the whole of Europe, it is not a big threat to the empire, and with the empire's medical system and disease prevention and control capabilities, it is enough to deal with any emergency."

No one knows the extent of the harm of this flu epidemic, and even advanced individuals such as Tang Shaoyi cannot predict it, as the prime minister, Tang Shaoyi naturally has a highly positive attitude towards the empire's ability to prevent the epidemic.

At this time, the Chinese Empire was economically prosperous and powerful. After more than 20 years of foreign wars and plunder, a considerable part of the huge income obtained has been invested in the construction of national medical and health care, and the national medical security system was established before the war and has been operating normally after the war. Coupled with a series of Shennong antibiotics developed by the Biomedical Laboratory of the Chinese Empire, the medical capacity of the Chinese Empire has become the strongest in the world, and if even the Chinese Empire does not dare to pack the ticket, it will inevitably cause panic among the people and affect the rapid development of the empire's economy.

Wang Chenhao also understands this truth, thinking of the impact of ** on China's economy, it is not difficult to predict the huge losses and impact of the Spanish flu on the economy of the Chinese Empire.

Minister of Health Bi Ankang immediately echoed: "What the Prime Minister said is very true! Your Majesty, please rest assured, Wechen has ordered the Ministry of Health to prepare for the Spanish flu. ”

Zhang Jian said suddenly: "Lord Bi's preparation is to prohibit foreigners from entering the country, but there are citizens of the empire in all countries around the world, and after the outbreak of the pandemic in Europe, a large number of overseas citizens have returned to China, and it is impossible to guarantee that they are all healthy and not infected." Unless customs and all entry points are completely closed, it will inevitably have a significant impact on the empire's trade, and the damage will be immeasurable. ”

Wang Chenhao looked at Bi Ankang, who suddenly coughed dryly and said, "The minister has this plan, but he has not yet obtained the consent of the Ministry of Communications and the General Administration of Customs. ”

Wang Chenhao said: "The general direction of your plan is right!" You have to be stuck in immigration control! ”

Zhang Jian hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, but this will have a major impact on the empire's foreign trade!" ”

Tang Shaoyi and the others also wanted to echo, Wang Chenhao waved his hand to stop them, and continued: "As mentioned in the report of the Ministry of Health just now, the incubation period of this flu is only three days, and the severe period is no more than one week, so the customs immigration department only needs to isolate the entry personnel for half a month. If there are no cold symptoms, they will be released, and those with symptoms will continue to be isolated and treated. ”

Ruan Zhongshu suddenly said: "Your Majesty is wise, this is indeed the best solution. ”

Bi Ankang hurriedly said: "The minister will set up a quarantine area at the customs entry department in accordance with His Majesty's wishes, and be sure to control the epidemic outside the country." ”

Tang Shaoyi, Zhang Jian and the others glanced at each other and felt that it was feasible.

Wang Chenhao nodded and said: "This is only the first step, the customs may not be able to stop it, there will definitely be infiltration." The Ministry of Health should order all local medical units and centers for disease control and prevention to take necessary measures, and all localities should maintain a 24-hour reporting mechanism and not be allowed to conceal any epidemic situation. ”

Bi Ankang said: "This requires the active cooperation of the cabinet, five provinces and nine ministries and local governments!" ”

Wang Chenhao nodded, turned to Tang Shaoyi, and asked, "Can you do it?" ”

Tang Shaoyi hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the ministers will do their best to cooperate." ”

Wang Chenhao was a little relieved, and then asked, "Have you studied virus samples?" ”

Bi Ankang nodded and said: "Chen has sent the most authoritative virus experts to Europe to retrieve the virus strain samples, and the laboratory is currently analyzing them." According to preliminary analysis, the virus strain of this outbreak is indeed an influenza virus, but it is unprecedented, and there is no specific drug yet, although the use of Shennong antibiotics produced by the empire in European countries is said to delay the disease. ”

Wang Chenhao said: "We must come up with countermeasures within a month, I estimate that the flu epidemic will hit the empire in three months, and then the empire must produce the antiviral yao necessary for 500 million people." ”

"This ......" a cold sweat suddenly broke out on Bi Ankang's forehead.

When Wang Chenhao saw him, he immediately smiled and said: "Although it is difficult, if you can do it, it will save tens of thousands of lives, and I will give you a great credit!" ”

Wang Chenhao threw out the bait, and Bi Ankang had no choice but to promise.

After the meeting ended, Wang Shizhen left something to play alone.

"Your Majesty, the virus strain samples obtained by the minister from the Ministry of Health have been compared with the foreign biological virus samples in Area 51, and the results are surprisingly consistent."

Wang Chenhao suddenly sank his face and asked, "So the virus strain flowed out of our hands?" ”

Wang Shizhen replied: "It has been determined that the virus strain actually flowed out of Siberia, but it is not sure that it is the virus strain preserved in our 51st District, after all, the Tunguska explosion occurred in the Siberian region, and our 51st District has only preserved a part of it." ”

Wang Chenhao nodded and asked, "Area 51 is the top secret of the empire, why did this happen?" ”

Wang Shizhen explained: "Area 51 is mainly responsible for the preservation of extraterrestrial wreckage and the research of electromagnetic pulse weapons, and the research on microbial viruses is still in the primitive stage. ”

Wang Chenhao nodded, expressing his understanding. In terms of management ability in this era, they have done a good job.

"So, have you worked out antibodies to this strain of the virus?"

Wang Shizhen shook his head and said, "Claire's death has caused the empire to lose a top virology expert, so the 51st District Command has already begun to research antibodies to fight this virus. The key problem, however, is that in virology, there is no systematic scientific experience in the whole world, and the empire is at the forefront of this, but it is able to move forward on its own. There are still many deficiencies in virus prevention and control, as well as management, that need to be improved urgently. ”

Wang Chenhao sighed and said, "Yes! We are moving forward on our own moo, and it is understandable that all kinds of problems arise, but we have to learn the lesson and not fall again in the same place where we fell. ”

Wang Shizhen said: "It's Your Majesty!" ”