Chapter 16 Vaccines
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As one of the specialties of the New World, potatoes have made an incomparable contribution to the recent history of Europe, saving the European world from starvation during the global Xiaoice climate. But at the beginning, it suffered all kinds of slander and suspicion from Europeans, such as eating the devil and eating poisonous ...... Its taste and appearance, which was contrary to the traditional eating habits of Europeans at that time, made all kinds of rumors fly among the people for a while.
There was an unreliable version of the potato promotion, which of course included peppers and tomatoes, two fruits and vegetables that seemed even more bizarre at the time...... In view of the common people's resistance to potato planting, the Spanish royal family was furious, and directly circled a special field in the backyard of the royal palace, planted potatoes, and then sent guards to defend it day and night, and affirmed that potatoes were the exclusive food of the royal family.
Well, people are always cheap, and such a gimmick will naturally cause some foodies who are not afraid of death to try their luck, so potatoes were turned a blind eye by the Spanish royal family out of the royal palace, and then quickly spread, thus saving millions of hungry people in Spain, and then going to all of Europe.
Monday, September 2, 1624.
Preparations for the "Atlantic Checkers" were still in full swing, and in the evening, a flying clipping fleet carrying the Army's vanguard began to set off for the city of Shuangwan, Bermuda, in preparation for a two-month training in preparing for the island landing operation adaptation training on Bermuda Island in advance.
The frigate Vostok, which participated in the Guadeloupe landing operation, has also completed other deployment tasks and is slowly entering the dock of the military port, where it will be docked for a month of repair and maintenance. The frigate Zìyóu, which has just finished maintenance, is preparing to set off for the waters around Guadeloupe for a preliminary reconnaissance mission.
Under the lights of the port. Hundreds of family members and citizens of the army and navy are bidding farewell. So far, the Chinese and US navies, which have fought several foreign naval wars, have not tasted defeat, and domestic propaganda has even blown the navy's combat effectiveness to the sky, and it has been engaged in "sharing the cake of victory among the whole people" more than a month in advance. In the newspapers, the importance of the country's ownership of the island is directly linked to the happiness of the people. Therefore, this time the army and navy are preparing to make a large-scale sortie, which makes most of the citizens who did not even know where Guadeloupe is.
The farewell ceremony at the port is coming to an end, and the bars in the city are just getting into the early stages of activity. The men sat around the table playing poker and had a good time, or they held newspapers and pointed to a map of the Caribbean. Loudly discussed.
Cane sugar, cotton, coffee, spices, sulfur, rare wood...... No matter how relevant it is to one's own life, these symbols of a good life and wealth will always make drinkers who have just been out of illiteracy for a few months think of themselves. All they know is that the state owns the island. The factories they are in will get rich, they will also be bullish on their incomes, and their lives will be better, and the "hillbilly Europe" will no longer be able to leave their factories.
As for how many natives there were on that island, no one took it seriously. No one could stop the rain of bullets and artillery fire on the army and navy of the United States of America, and several workers of the North Industries Company and the Beiyang Shipbuilding Company held beer glasses in the bar and talked loudly, showing off the incomparable power of their military products. Drink a little more, and a quarrel is bound to ensu, followed by a bloody brawl, and finally a police swarm with sharp whistles. One by one, the drinkers who were beating up were knocked to the ground and dragged away.
In the commercial street square, a silver valley town product exhibition is underway, and a batch of porcelain and oriental furniture that only European aristocrats can afford to buy are filled with the venue, which arouses the curiosity of the citizens. The delicate and delicate porcelain, the exquisite and elegant oriental furniture. Let the European citizens be amazed, and the Chinese citizens will explain with a proud sense of superiority.
People came and went in the commercial square, Jenny's tender singing voice came from the radio speakers, and the citizens wandering the streets looked for seats and began to listen to beautiful music.
Suddenly, a thunderclap rang out. The rain poured down without warning, and for a moment there were exclamations, umbrellas came into battle, and those who covered their heads with their carry-on wraps were seen walking in the rain, and those who did not bring rain gear were desperately running towards the nearby shops, and the crowds in the streets and squares were suddenly scattered.
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It was almost 21 o'clock in the evening, and the heavy rain had completely enveloped the entire capital. In a special industrial park in the west of the southern district of Manchuria, a white building is still lit up. This is the vaccine room of the Pharmaceutical Research Institute under the state-owned pharmaceutical group, and all researchers are still working overtime.
Except for a few microscopes that were produced only this year, there are almost no instruments of all kinds, and there is a neat row of cages lined up on the wall on one side of the room. There are piglets, lambs, chickens, ducks, and rabbits in the cage, all of which are organisms used for vaccine attenuated culture**.
In a few petri dishes on the real platform, there is a vague nutrient solution. Several men and women in white coats and masks carefully observe under microscopes or use silver needle syringes to draw bodily samples from small animals.
Due to the increasing number of children from immigrant families, especially the wave of newborns that broke out last year, as of June 1624, the number of infants and young children under the age of 6 in the country was close to 3,000, the growth rate greatly exceeded expectations, and the pressure on social health and epidemic prevention increased several times. Since last year, the national health and epidemic prevention system has been officially listed as the government's long-term work content, and has begun to start with the prevention of several diseases in the simplest way.
Even though there were a series of sanitary quarantine measures in the Azores and the outer islands, smallpox that was rampant in the world in the 17th century was still terrifying, and smallpox prevention work was still ranked first.
Familiar with the history of smallpox vaccine development, the travelers will naturally not be stupid to try more primitive and riskier human pox vaccination. Using the cowpox virus, a close relative of the smallpox virus, the vaccine room first carried out vaccinia vaccination, using the military as a bridge, using Mohok prisoners of war or the elderly and weak women and children in the health quarantine area of Port Heroísmo in the Azores, similar measures were carried out for almost half a year, and even specially transported to Portuguese cities to deliberately contact smallpox patients to verify the effect. Even if the whole process was so inhumane that the mood of the old man Huang Nian, the director of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Research, fluctuated for a long time, the final reward was huge.
Since the beginning of spring this year, vaccinia vaccination has been mandatory and free of charge in the country, and all citizens over the age of age must be vaccinated. Can smallpox be prevented? Such news is no less than the coming of God! At first, the unknown people were very nervous about this act of breaking the skin on their arms, and even many European citizens thought that it was some strange evil ritual, and resistance and avoidance inevitably began to appear.
In addition to the lack of troops, the Manchester City Weekly Newspaper, the Ministry of Health and Education, and the National Hospital in the capital city of Manchester almost tried all the tricks, and even a few families whose children had just turned one year old showed up to set an example in person, so that the suspicious citizens knew that this was the way to prevent smallpox.
People who have seen it with their own eyes or heard of the smallpox epidemic are flocking here. In order to establish scientific authority and build momentum, the state-owned pharmaceutical group printed a set of four smallpox vaccination tickets in a certain issue of Manchester City Weekly, and only with this ticket can the vaccine be vaccinated free of charge in hospitals, otherwise you will have to pay a $10 vaccination fee.
As a result, successive issues of the Manchester City Weekly were snapped up, albeit in a very unorthodox way, but in the 17th century it was no less ingenious than the Spanish ploy to promote potato cultivation on the mainland.
Within a few months, the country was able to vaccinate infants over the age of one year against smallpox, and the side effect was that the authority of the Manchester City Weekly newspaper was established. Now, the vaccine room will prepare a vaccine project to overcome rubella, measles, and tuberculosis.
In the 19th century, Pasteur, the father of microbial engineering, successfully realized the attenuated active vaccine, put forward the concept of attenuated disease strains, and made great contributions to the development of human microbiology and preventive medicine. The vaccine against Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been realized on this theory.
Replacement culture of attenuated strains in poultry and livestock can obtain rubella and measles vaccines in a short time, but the culture of attenuated strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cannot rely on animal inoculation for attenuated vaccine culture, which requires specific nutrient cultures and the process is much longer. However, it took more than 10 years and more than 200 generations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to obtain a qualified attenuated vaccine.
The rubella and measles viruses obtained from the Porto Heroísmo camp in the Azores have been degraded on poultry for nearly a year, and attenuated vaccinations are now being carried out secretly on the elderly and infirm women and children in the Mohok prisoner-of-war labor camps. As long as the clinical practice is passed, then children over the age of one will also be vaccinated throughout the country.
As for other epidemic vaccines, including tuberculosis vaccines, we can only wait for the slow progress of strain screening and attenuated vaccine culture technology, and this time, Huang Nian's old man is set at 10 years.
For example, there is an urgent need for equipment that can create a sterile working environment, including artificial ultraviolet lamps, and the supply channels of a variety of important pharmaceutical raw materials must also be laid out for a long time, otherwise it will be difficult to carry out many medical researches.
Almost every citizen does not know how much energy the country spends on them. These may not directly bring any superficial benefits to the country, and will even consume a lot of the country's financial resources, but they will have a real impact on the fragile national base of the new country.
The establishment of a more professional biological and medical school has become the urgent psychology of Huang Nian and some elderly medical staff, and their modern medical knowledge must be continued as much as possible in the next 20 years.
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