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Chapter 481: The Spanish Flu (2)

Although Wang Chenhao was dissatisfied with the awareness of safety and prevention in District 51, he also knew in his heart that due to the restrictions of the times, it was impossible to reach the management level of the 21st century at once. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info╔╗

Thinking that the world's earliest influenza virus was isolated in 1933, and the establishment of a professional virus laboratory only appeared in the sixties, although the Chinese Empire invested a lot of manpower and material resources in this area, but many aspects could not be achieved in a short period of time with efforts and investment alone, so Wang Chenhao's heart couldn't help but worry.

Fortunately, the officials of the empire were very efficient, and under the instructions of Wang Chenhao, the officials of the five provinces and nine ministries of the cabinet put aside their prejudices and contradictions for the first time, and took joint action for the life and health of the empire's 50,000,000 robes, and erected a strong epidemic prevention and protection network on the border of the country before the arrival of the Spanish flu.

All vehicles, planes, trains, ships, automobiles, etc. entering the Chinese Empire will be fully disinfected, and all entry personnel, whether civil servants, soldiers, businessmen or civilians, will be quarantined for more than half a month to prevent the epidemic from entering the Chinese Empire. ╔╗

At the same time, the provincial governments and parliaments within the empire have issued relevant epidemic prevention regulations, such as the establishment of an emergency epidemic headquarters, coordinated by senior provincial and ministerial officials, the officers and soldiers of the National Guard to maintain order, and the major hospitals to set up special isolation and treatment areas, but all headaches, high fevers, muscle aches, loss of appetite, abdominal pain and diarrhea are regarded as suspected cases of Spanish flu and isolated, each local government reports the situation to the higher authorities once a day, and each province reports to the epidemic prevention center of the Imperial Ministry of Health every three days, so as to isolate immediately once the epidemic is discovered.

The Imperial Ministry of Finance urgently allocated 300 million dragon coins as a financial plan to take emergency defense measures against the outbreak area, and the local treasury assumed 100 million dragon dollars of reserve funds, and prohibited the misappropriation of this fund.

At the same time, the Ministry of Health issued a reward order to 175 large pharmaceutical companies in the empire, requiring major companies to develop anti-influenza virus drugs, and once they are effective, the imperial government will allocate huge sums of money to reward them and purchase the special drugs developed by the company on a large scale.

At this time, the Chinese Empire already had Shennong antibiotics, which have a strong antipyretic and analgesic effect, which are used to treat colds, fevers, headaches, toothaches, joint pain, rheumatism and other symptoms, and most of the drugs used in European countries to resist the Spanish flu epidemic are Shennong antibiotics, and have achieved certain results, the early prevention effect is obvious, the recovery rate under mild infection is more than 50%, and severe infections can also get a few days of life extension. ╔╗

In response to the Spanish flu epidemic, European countries produced 80 million doses of Shennong antibiotics in Europe, and paid Shennong Pharmaceutical Company up to 50 million dragon coins in huge patent fees, and this does not include the doses secretly produced by some European companies in violation of regulations. Mixed & mixed // (none/pop-up window/full text)

Due to the high price of antibiotics in Shennong in the Chinese Empire, the purchasing power of post-war European citizens was low, and more than half of the civilians could not afford this drug. At this time, the price of aspirin produced by Bayer in Germany was controlled by the German government and reduced to the price of ordinary people, and its sales rose sharply.

In fact, Bayer's aspirin is the original product of Shennong antibiotics produced by Shennong Pharmaceutical Company of the Chinese Empire, and the anti-inflammatory effect reaches 70% of Shennong's antibiotics, but the price drops to 50% of Shennong's antibiotics, posing a serious threat to the sales of Shennong's antibiotics. ╔╗

As early as before the war, Shennong Pharmaceutical Company had filed a lawsuit against Bayer for aspirin in the Supreme Court of the German Empire and even The Hague International, and the lawsuit between the two sides lasted for more than a year. With the outbreak of the world war, the demand for Shennong's antibiotics and aspirin in Europe rose sharply, and the German Empire encouraged Bayer to produce aspirin on a large scale to replace Shennong's antibiotics in the Chinese Empire.

However, as the world war entered a stalemate, the only export of the German Empire was the Baghdad Railway controlled by the Chinese Empire, and the required military resources and livelihood resources needed to be imported from the Chinese Empire, especially in terms of military materials, the German navy, land and air forces would be defeated without the support of the Chinese Empire, which eventually led to the German government being fully subject to the Chinese Empire economically and militarily, and the German government compromised with the Chinese Empire in order to ease the Sino-German relationship because of the patent rights of Shennong antibiotics and aspirin. It admitted that Bayer's aspirin infringed Shennong's antibiotic patent of Shennong Pharmaceutical Company of the Chinese Empire, and ordered Bayer to suspend the production of aspirin. ╔╗But soon the world war ended, the German Empire was in civil strife, and the matter was shelved.

When the Spanish flu broke out in Germany, the Weimar Republic could not bear the high price of Shennong's antibiotics, and the German people could not afford to use them, forcing the Weimar Republic to instruct Bayer to continue producing aspirin.

Bayer has not been sanctioned, Shennong Pharmaceutical Company has spent millions of dragon coins in litigation on this issue, and the amount of aspirin produced by Bayer Company over the years is huge, causing a loss of more than one billion dragon coins to Shennong Pharmaceutical Company, and the senior management of Shennong Pharmaceutical Company is angry about this.

As the Chinese Imperial Government attaches great importance to the production of Shennong antibiotics, the company's board of directors took the opportunity to put forward a request to the Ministry of Health to sanction Bayer AG of Germany, and expressed its willingness to fully protect the needs of Chinese Imperial citizens for Shennong antibiotics before the new drug is developed. After weighing the pros and cons, the Ministry of Health quickly reached an agreement with Shennong.

On June 3, Guanghua 19, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire sent an official note to the German ambassador to China on the infringement of the Shennong antibiotic patent of the Chinese Imperial Shennong Pharmaceutical Company's aspirin by Bayer, lodged a protest with the German government, and demanded that the German side immediately resolve the matter, otherwise the Chinese Empire will take necessary sanctions. ╔╗

The post-war German economy was completely supported by loans from the Chinese Empire, and the government of the Weimar Republic weighed the pros and cons and decided that the consequences would be catastrophic if it did not accede to the demands of the Chinese Empire. The Weimar government ordered the Supreme Court to formally convict Bayer of infringement, and under pressure from the Chinese Empire, ordered Bayer to stop production of aspirin and compensate Shennong Pharmaceutical Company for economic losses of one billion dragon dollars.

Bayer President Hinrod Green accused the Weimar government of being a traitor and appealed three times in a row, all of which were rejected.

After the compensation procedure was initiated, Bayer's assets were frozen, but because of the bad debts owed by the German side to Bayer during the war of 500 million dragon dollars, in fact, Bayer's funds have always been negative except for fixed assets worth 15 million dragon dollars, and it is simply unable to repay the compensation costs to Shennong Pharmaceutical Company.

To this end, Shennong Pharmaceutical Company officially annexed Bayer. The German government owed Bayer 500 million dragon dollars to the Weimar government.

After Shennong Company annexed Bayer, the aspirin on the market was labeled as Shennong Company, and Shennong Company raised the supply price of aspirin by a large margin in order to recover profits.

The Weimar government then negotiated with the Chinese Empire to lower the prices of aspirin and Shennong's antibiotics. To this end, the German government submitted a petition to the League of Nations and persuaded the International Committee of the Red Cross to intervene to intervene.

At this time, Shennong Pharmaceutical Company annexed Bayer, but failed to get the expected benefits. The ability to pay in European countries is very weak, a large number of civilians cannot afford to use expensive drugs, and the number of people who die because they cannot afford to buy drugs is gradually increasing, and Shennong has become a vampire in the eyes of Europeans, and protests have come and gone. Similarly, the image of the Chinese Empire as a peace ambassador was also questioned, because the citizens of the Chinese Empire were using Shennong's antibiotics, which were of high quality and lower than those abroad.

At the same time, a large number of pharmaceutical companies in European countries want to take advantage of the Spanish flu to make a fortune, they have no ability to develop and produce new drugs, so they naturally target Shennong antibiotics and aspirin, and carry out large-scale copycats, which is the most fatal blow to Shennong Pharmaceutical Company.

Eventually, after negotiations between the Imperial Chinese government and the governments, the board of directors of Shennong Pharmaceutical Company weighed the pros and cons and decided to reduce the prices of Shennong's antibiotics and aspirin to make them more accessible to the people and affordable to the common people. And the governments of the world did not dare to really offend the Chinese Empire, and finally made concessions, the governments of the world made every effort to block the illegal copycat Shennong antibiotics and aspirin pharmaceutical companies, and pulled out special funds to subsidize the losses of Shennong Pharmaceutical Company, such as canceling the tariffs, business taxes and other taxes on the drugs produced by Shennong Pharmaceutical Company into various countries, especially France, which has the highest degree of dependence on the Chinese Empire, has completely canceled all taxes on Shennong Pharmaceutical Company, so that The price of Shennong's antibiotics and aspirin has dropped sharply, and the common people can afford to use it, and Shennong Company has also guaranteed profits, and at the same time, the large-scale price reduction action has gradually improved the reputation of Shennong Pharmaceutical Company, and it has cracked down on various copycat brands to ensure the stability of Shennong's antibiotics and aspirin domination in the world in the future.

The Spanish flu outbreak in May, which lasted until July, had little impact on the world, mainly on the European continent, with about 40 million people infected, of whom 6.5 million died. Mainly concentrated in Russia and Poland, where the epidemic first broke out, the people here were the first to be infected, and because of the war, there was no institution to effectively control it, and after the war, it was extremely poor and could not afford the huge medical expenses, so more than half of the population was concentrated in Eastern and Southern Europe, and Soviet Russia was the worst, paying the price of 7 million deaths, which made the already fragmented Russians even worse.

Because Britain is an island country, it controls it in a timely manner, and only 30,000 people were killed in the first wave of influenza attacks. On the American continent on the other side of the Atlantic, it has been two months since the virus spread there, and all the countries in the Americas have learned of the horror on the European continent, so they have taken precautions in advance, and only a thousand people have been infected.

In Asia, the Chinese Empire is even more vigilant, a strong protective shield against the epidemic has been erected on the customs border, and several provinces on the domestic border have had epidemics, but they have all been quarantined. Outbreaks have been detected in three inland provinces, all of which were transmitted by planes and quarantined at airports. In the end, only five people died too late to be treated.