"Smallpox—" Raphael's face relaxed, but it was still ugly.

Smallpox is one of the oldest and deadliest infectious diseases, and can be infected by anyone who has not had smallpox or has not been vaccinated against smallpox.

Smallpox virus mainly invades the human body through the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract and is transmitted through droplet inhalation or direct contact. Weak people cause mild smallpox, i.e., smallpox-like.

The main symptoms of smallpox are severe blood poisoning (chills, high fever, fatigue, headache, aching limbs and lower back, convulsions and coma may occur when the body temperature rises sharply), and the skin appears in batches of macules, papules, herpes, pustules, and finally scabs, scabs, and acne scars.

Smallpox is ferocious and develops rapidly, with a fatality rate of up to 30% within 15~20 days after infection in unimmunized people.

In the real world, the earliest recorded episodes of smallpox were in ancient Egypt, where there were signs of a rash suspected to be smallpox on the mummy of Egyptian pharaoh Ramses V who died in 1156 BC.

Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in Chinese history, used pus from smallpox and mouth sores to apply to the skin to prevent smallpox, and after the Ming Dynasty, the human pox inoculation method has become popular.

However, the toxicity of human pox is difficult to control, and the side effects are great.

In 1796, Edward Jenner, an English country doctor, discovered a less dangerous method of vaccination.

He successfully injected an 8-year-old boy with vaccinia, and the current smallpox vaccine is not made of human smallpox virus, but with cowpox virus, which has most of the same antigen as smallpox virus, and does not cause disease to humans, and has fewer side effects.

In the 1820s, the United Kingdom invented a vaccinia vaccine to prevent smallpox. The mortality rate among smallpox patients is still as high as one third.

Later, developed countries gradually brought the disease under control, but there are still epidemics in rural Africa.

In 1967, the last large-scale eradication of smallpox was carried out.

In 1978, a British medical photographer, Janet Brown. Parker contracted smallpox from the laboratory and became the last person in the world to suffer from smallpox. (Shortly thereafter, Professor Henry Bedson, the head of the lab, committed suicide.) ）

On October 26, 1979, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) announced in Nairobi, Kenya, that smallpox had been eradicated from the world, and a ceremony was held to celebrate the occasion.

In the last two years, World Health Organization inspectors have investigated the last four countries in East Africa that have not yet been declared eradicated from smallpox – Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti – and found that they have indeed eliminated the disease.

As a result, in May 1980, the World Health Organization declared that smallpox had been successfully eradicated, and smallpox became the first human infectious disease to be completely eradicated.

In the world of great exploration, smallpox was no longer a very serious disease.

Europeans, who had experienced the Black Death and various virulent infectious diseases, developed strong antibodies against various viruses.

As long as attention is paid to nutritional supplementation and adjuvant treatment, mild smallpox patients can basically rely on their own immunity to carry it, as for typical smallpox patients, it is life and death.

But for the natives who had never faced the virus, there was no difference between smallpox and the Black Death, and the progression and fatality rate would be greatly increased.

Like the girl who was infected, the incubation period for smallpox is 7 to 12 days, and the rash will appear after 2 to 3 days, and she only spent one night.

It's as if the immune system in her body has raised the white flag, lying flat and allowing the smallpox virus to attack the city and act recklessly.

Liu Zheng looked at the girl who was still dazed, and sighed heavily in his heart.

He couldn't blame the sailor, not even Dr. Gertrude.

The upper limit of doctors' understanding of infectious diseases in this era was isolation and immunity, and they did not know the lethality of foreign infectious viruses to the local indigenous people.

"Great Wallace, what is going on? Did she serve badly and angered you? Haka asked cautiously.

Liu Zheng took a deep look at Haka and said, "Chief Haka, are you willing to obey my orders?" ”

Hakaren paused for a moment, countless thoughts swirled through his mind, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Of course, Baini Village will unconditionally obey the will of the gods. ”

It's time to show loyalty, and if you make a mistake, your previous efforts will be in vain, and Haka chooses to gamble.

"That's good." Liu Zheng nodded.

He took a deep breath and shouted in the native language: "Everyone, sit down five paces apart, there may be demons lurking in your bodies, and we will destroy them." ”

This time, he used the technique of breathing, and his voice resonated from the abdomen, chest, and throat at the same time, and his voice echoed throughout the sea, like a divine decree.

Haka was the first to step aside, cross-legged, and the other villagers did the same.

The girl was still sitting on the ground, her fawn-clear eyes full of fear and unease.

Liu Zheng bent down, passed his right hand under her armpit, raised his left hand to pick up the girl, walked to the side and put it down gently.

"Don't be afraid, I'm not mad at you, I like you very much." He said mildly.

A smile immediately appeared on the girl's face, and with the joy of being liked by the gods, she sat quietly.

She felt that the herpes on her hand was a little itchy, and she wanted to pick it, but Liu Zheng reached out and grabbed it.

He shook his head gently and said, "Don't touch them, it's not good." ”

"Good!" The girl replied crisply, and sure enough, she didn't touch the herpes again.

When the villagers saw Liu Zheng treating the girl so gently, the panic in their hearts also decreased a lot.

Some women even stretched out their heads to look around, eager to replace them, and the atmosphere suddenly became much more relaxed.

Liu Zheng said it again in Portuguese, and Raphael ordered the crew to do the same.

Gertrude had smallpox as a child, and he was in charge of the crew's inspections.

Liu Zheng was examined by the Baini villagers, and after being transformed by the Fountain of Youth, most of the pathogenic organisms could not survive on or in his body.

The results of the examination were not satisfactory, more than a dozen villagers had already developed symptoms, and the rest of the villagers had also been in contact with the sailor or the girl, and a large-scale infection was inevitable.

However, Liu Zheng has no good way, the only treatment drug for smallpox is tecovir, but this drug can only be obtained through chemical synthesis, and Bainicun obviously does not have this condition.

"How's the sailor doing?" Liu Zheng asked.

"The good news is that most sailors have had smallpox. The bad news is that the remaining sailors are infected. Gertrude's answer was darkly humorous.

But it was also expected that the ship was so big, and the sailors often hooked shoulders together, chatted and farted, and it was strange that not all of them were infected.

None of the main crew members were infected, Anna and Jenas had little contact with sailors, and Flio had already had it when he was younger.

As for Raphael, Jack and Wolfheart, it was because they had soaked in the Fountain of Youth.

"What now?" Raphael asked.

"The crew is back on the ship, and I'll be in charge of Baini Village." Liu Zheng said decisively.

"I'll stay." Raphael said.

Liu Zheng wanted to refuse, but considering that he was here to appease the villagers, he agreed.

"Then you lose your clothes, go boil water and take a shower, and come back again." He said to Raphael.

Raphael nodded, and returned to the ship with the crew first.

"You don't ask me?" The heart of the wolf walked to Liu Zheng's side.

"I can't open my mouth." Liu Zheng smiled reluctantly.

The heart of the wolf has used a lot of props along the way, and so far he has not found a single evidence of the hegemon, but Liu Zheng has gained a lot of benefits.

Now ask Wolfheart for help, he really doesn't have the cheekiness.

"That's all I have, decide for yourself whether you want to use it or not." Wolfheart handed over a ghost hand and turned to leave.

The infected sailors couldn't guarantee that they wouldn't make trouble, and she had to go back to the ship.

"Item Name: Hand of the Ghoul Leader"

"Item Level: B Rank"

"Prop Effect: Licking the pus oozing from the ghost's hand can be transformed into a ghoul, greatly increasing vitality and strength."

After reading the effect, Liu Zheng was silent.

He also does not have the qualifications to decide, only the villagers of Baini Village can decide.

Liu Zheng walked up to Haka's side and told him the truth.

Haka's face was first fearful, then angry, then somewhat funny.

I thought it was a savior from heaven, but I didn't expect it to become a messenger of disaster.

But blaming these gods doesn't seem to make any sense, they didn't mean it, and even if Liu Zheng didn't say it, he might not know the truth when the whole village died.

But is it bad to blame the lives of the people in Baini Village?

Indeed, life is not very good.

The priest apprentices who had a promising future, these villagers were originally all tribes directly under the priests, and their lives were much better than ordinary tribes.

Unexpectedly, the barbarian Aztecs destroyed the Ramakat Empire and demolished their temples, leaving them to flee without stopping.

There were once tens of thousands of people, but now there are less than a hundred left, countless precious texts have been lost on the way to escape, and even the last priest is about to die.

Now I saw the dawn of revival, but I didn't expect it to be a dark night of destruction.

"Rain God, why do you do this to your disciples?" Haka confronted the gods they had worshiped for generations, and of course received no response.

"There's only one way for you all to survive, but whether you need it or not, you have to make your own decisions." Liu Zheng handed Hakka the ghoul leader's claw and told him about the effect.

"What does it cost to become a ghoul?" Haka asked.

"You will gradually lose your normal mind, you can only live on corpses, and you will become more and more ugly outside." Liu Zheng said.

Hakka was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "The descendants of the White Clay Priest would never become such a monster. ”

Then without hesitation, he returned the ghoul leader's claw to Liu Zheng.

"The gods have forsaken us, so leave everything to fate." He said calmly.