For Asians, yellow fever is a disease they have never seen before, and the virus seems to exist only outside of Asia, such as the primeval jungles of Africa and the Americas. So in Asia, yellow fever is much less well-known than smallpox, cholera, plague, etc. But actually, this thing is really stained, and it's no worse than these things.

The first time Europeans saw the power of this thing was in Haiti. In 1801, when the black people of the French colony of Haiti declared their independence, the Emperor Napoleon, who was in his prime, immediately sent an army of 25,000 men to suppress it. The blacks, of course, were powerless to resist and had to burrow into the primeval jungle of Haiti. The French army also followed alive and dead. A week later, the French army fled from the rainforest, and the army of 25,000 men was reduced to less than 3,000. Haiti also won the War of Independence. What caused such a large army to be almost completely annihilated? The answer is yellow fever.

Yellow fever is a deadly virus-led disease transmitted by mosquitoes. Note that it is not bacteria but viruses that cause this disease, which means that the sulfonamide in Scrooge's hand has no effect on it at all. In fact, in this era, there is no medicine that can resist this virus, and anyone who is infected with such a disease, whether they die or live can basically only depend on God's will. In addition, because the virus is so small, it is completely impossible to see the yellow fever virus with a microscope under the technical conditions of this era. So in this day and age, people are equally ignorant of how it is transmitted.

What's worse is that this thing actually has an incubation period of three to six days. The average person experiences almost no discomfort for three to six days after contracting the virus. This gives the virus plenty of time to spread. Especially in densely populated areas, a mosquito that bites a person infected with the virus can bite everyone else around it over such a long period of time. So, once the disease starts to flare up, you will find that almost everyone who may have contracted this disease has already contracted it.

The same is true of Japanese workers who have gone into the jungle today. At first, one or two people began to have a series of symptoms such as high fever, cold intolerance, headache, fatigue, loss of appetite, and nausea. Of course, this symptom was immediately diagnosed by doctors as a severe cold.

The cold was caused by a virus, and there was no particularly effective way to deal with it at the time, and the most effective way was to give him a piece of heroin, make the patient comfortable, and then wait for it to get better. (By the way, many of today's cold remedies are actually just relieving symptoms.) And heroin is such a powerful masking agent, this thing is eaten, all the uncomfortable symptoms immediately disappear, except for the high fever has not subsided, the patient does not even feel any special discomfort, some guys can even resist the axe and go out to work. As a result, almost everyone, including the Japanese, lamented that heroin is really a good thing, and if there were no it, how would human beings face all kinds of diseases?

However, heroin can't really kill the virus after all, it can only paralyze the nerves to relieve the symptoms. Therefore, if you encounter a disease like most colds that does not need to be treated, and you will be cured after two weeks, of course, it is the supreme cure, but once you encounter a disease that cannot kill germs or viruses and will kill people, this thing will almost only make you die more comfortably, and it may be faster. Originally, yellow fever had an incubation period of several days, and when using heroin, it was equivalent to a long incubation period all of a sudden, plus in order to deal with the symptoms of weakness, so that the workers could continue to work while sick, although Scrooge did not plan to really dig the canal, but do more, and the next time he really plans to dig through it, wouldn't it be possible to do less? Besides, these Japanese workers are already dead anyway, and they are already going to be consumed as consumables, so isn't it appropriate to get back at a higher cost before they are consumed?

However, there is always a limit to what psychotropic drugs can do. Whether it's heroin or methamphetamine. When the material foundation of the body has been destroyed, these things will only make people die faster. So a few days later, widespread deaths began to appear.

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"Kojiro, what's wrong with you?" Sasaki Nozomi was still holding the axe just now, and suddenly he threw the axe aside, and Kojiro, who was retching, asked.

Kojiro was speechless at this time, he just retched at first, and then began to vomit blood one after another—this is a typical symptom of yellow fever entering the third stage, that is, the most severe and dangerous poisoning period, once such symptoms appear, then he is not far from death.

Sasaki didn't know anything about yellow fever or anything, but seeing a man spitting blood, no matter how stupid he was, he knew that the situation was not good.

Kojiro got used to spitting and spitting - ah, wrong, because he should have vomited and spit and his legs were weak, and he fell to the ground and passed out.

"Quick, lift him up and take him to the doctor!" Sasaki shouted, and at the same time, his heart suddenly tightened, as if he was being held by a cold claw, and he could barely beat. He remembered that the other day, almost all of them in the team, including himself, had contracted a "bad cold", and his head hurt as if it was about to crack. Then the doctor gave them a medicine called heroin, which was so good that if they ate it, their heads would not hurt after a while. At that time, Sasaki also sighed that the cold on the Oniyi side was so bad, but fortunately, the medicine of the Oniyi was also very powerful. It's just that there is still a problem with being bored, so there is a double part of the strong pill on it, well, this thing, the Japanese think the name is too ugly, so they gave it a Japanese translation called "North American Great Tonic Pill". A few years later, when the winners of the Tongmeng Society's life learned from the Japanese experience, they also liked this kind of medicine that refreshes the brain and replenishes the body, so they also brought some of this back to China, and gave it another name called "Dongying Great Tonic Pill".

The effect of the "North American Great Tonic Pill" is indeed a bargain, after eating this, everyone has the strength to work again, and then they work for a few more days, and then, well, there is a problem. This shows that the disease has not been cured at all, and now it is Kojiro who has fallen, and the next one may be himself. The thought made Sasaki's legs limp, and he almost fell headlong to the ground.

When they carried Kojiro to the doctor, they found that there was more than one person who had been carried back. It was only at this time that the doctors found out that the illness that everyone had this time was really not a bad cold. So after a series of investigations, the doctors finally remembered the kind of disease they didn't want to mention: yellow fever.

How is yellow fever treated? There's really nothing the doctors can do. In this day and age, the only reliable way is to constantly replenish the patient's electrolytes to maintain the electrolyte balance in the patient's body. Well, to put it more clearly, it is to hang saline on the patient. Then it depends on the patient's own creation, anyway, whether it can survive or not, it is the system anyway, oh, it is a physical problem.

Well, it's a physical problem, for example, Kojiro, after carrying it back, by the afternoon of the next day, he was still sober for a while, and there was a young man who was quite happy for him, but Sasaki knew that this was just a return to the light. Even Kojiro himself was aware of this, as can be seen in his last words. At that time, Kojiro said: "Originally, I wanted to save some money, so I went to the comfort station in the city and tasted what it was like to be a woman, anyway, I was so short, I guess I won't be able to find a wife in my life." You can't even be a woman for the rest of your life...... It's a pity, it's a pity......"

After saying two "pity", Kojiro kicked his legs. Less than two hours after Kojiro's death, Sasaki also fell ill, and he also began to experience symptoms such as bleeding gums, vomiting, and even fell into a coma for a while.

"I don't know how Michiko is now, if I can't go back, I don't know if Seibei can take care of her for a long time......" Sasaki thought before he passed out.

The plague spread like a gust of wind among the more than 10,000 Japanese workers who had recently arrived. In just a few days, the symptoms that had been suppressed by heroin and strong pills suddenly appeared, and now the entire workers' camp was silent, and almost all the workers were sick. Even the doctors fell ill quite a bit. As a result, most of the patients have no one to take care of them at all, and can only lie down and wait for death.

On this same day, the New York Daily Times reported that yellow fever had swept through the Panama Canal workers' camps. At the same time, the newspaper published an interview with Mr. Scrooge 61 MacDonald. In this interview, Scrooge unequivocally confirmed the news that yellow fever had swept through the workers' camps, and he even told the reporters that the situation would certainly be more severe than they had reported, because the disease would spread very quickly.

"I didn't expect this to happen. It was my fault that as a researcher who studies the causes of diseases and has some little track of doing it, I would ignore the threat of these diseases. The current medical force on the ground is far from sufficient, and from the news from there, sulfonamides have no effect on this disease at all. We are so lacking in weapons in the face of these diseases, but we are proud to think that we are about to conquer the epidemic completely, and pride is the greatest crime. Now I have the news for you, I have arranged a train for me to go to Panama with the most clinically experienced doctors at Salvation Hospital to treat patients to the best of our ability. Scrooge said, looking at his pocket watch, "We'll have five more minutes to talk, and then I'll have to go." ”

"Huh? What the? Mr. MacDonald, are you going to go to the epidemic area in person? Isn't that too dangerous? You're the richest man in America! The reporter asked. The news that Scrooge was going to Panama obviously surprised the reporter, and he knew that Scrooge 61 Mr. MacDonald was not an ordinary medical scientist, he was the richest man in the United States! And what kind of spirit is such a person, at this time, willing to put himself in danger in order to save people? This is the spirit of humanitarianism! Scrooge, who made such a decision, was immediately filled with the radiance of the Holy Spirit in the eyes of reporters.

"Yes, it's dangerous." Scrooge replied categorically, "But to the best of my ability, it's my responsibility to save lives." And I have a greater responsibility for the workers I recruited. So I have to go. As for the richest man in America or something, sir, before God, every human life is equal. ”