Chapter 985: Boiled Pathogens That Can't Die
The village is not quiet in the middle of the night, and when you walk on the road, you can hear the painful moans of the sick from time to time.
Outside the village, the flames were blazing downwind, and the priests of the Temple of Flames were burning the excrement of the sick to avoid recontamination.
Every summer is the peak period of dysentery, and at the beginning of this epidemic, everyone thought it was just ordinary dysentery, but within two days the disease broke out among people and livestock.
The grassroots priests of several local temples immediately reacted to their superiors after seeing that the patients in the village had died of diarrhea in a short period of time, and Pope Simon of the Temple of Light immediately ordered Mira to take people to the epidemic area to carry out treatment work, and Auston I, who also received the report, also sent people to assist her in carrying out her work in the kingdom of Relik.
Mira collected a large number of cases when she came to the area, and after analyzing the cases, she found a very shocking and terrifying thing - boiling the river water and drinking it can also get sick.
Moreover, the rivers here extend in all directions, constantly branching out and converging in pairs, and the water with pathogens is constantly spreading, and the disease is rapidly spreading downstream.
Fortunately, the well water is safe, otherwise there is no solution to this disease.
Mila soon followed the boy to the village's warehouse, where several Praetorian Guards of the Kingdom of Ryric were stationed, and potions of potions were boiling in a row of stoves in the open space outside.
The cause cannot be determined, so the patient can only try various prescriptions to see which one works.
The warehouse had long since been requisitioned by the Praetorian Guard, and outside the door was a charcoal stove with a pot of slimy slime paste on top.
Before entering the door, Mira took out a pig's mouth-like mask from her waist bag and put it on, this mask was made of leather, and the "pig nose" was filled with cotton and activated charcoal, which had only appeared in the last two years.
Then she took her white coat from the hanger outside the door and put it on, the white coat made of slime-soaked cotton cloth was waterproof, but it was not breathable and uncomfortable to wear during the season.
Finally, she soaked her hands in the slightly hot slime paste for a short while, and when she raised her hand, she shook it, and after a while the paste cooled down and became a layer of slime gloves that clung to her skin.
This warehouse was requisitioned to find and study pathogens, and it contained a large number of samples, which were not accidentally lost.
Sir Hartmann, a Praetorian Guard doctor who lived nearby, had taken his son Erich back to his nearby hometown to visit relatives while on leave, but he did not expect to encounter the epidemic.
At this time, Sir Hartmann was intently observing the specimen with a microscope and drawing a picture on paper.
Mira quietly stepped aside and waited until he had finished drawing a picture before asking out loud, "What did you find?"
The sound insulation effect of this pig's mouth mask is a bit good, and the other party can't hear it clearly when it doesn't speak loudly.
Hartmann then turned around and shouted when he saw Mira, "I always suspected that there was something in the water that we couldn't see, so during the day I asked Erich to pick some flowers and plants that could be dyed, and I found it." ”
He said as he stepped out of the way and asked Mira to come over the microscope to look at the specimen.
Microscopes are expensive, and crystal-polished lenses and thin slides and coverslips account for the bulk of the cost, and the average doctor has never seen the real thing once in his life.
Mira used one as a toy when she was a child, so it was easy to see what was going on inside the sample.
In the reddish liquid, a few small moving things dyed red were swimming around.
They look like eggplants, and they seem to have a few whip-like hairs behind them, and they swim by the thrust generated by the shaking of these flagella.
Mira asked, "Are you sure it's them?"
Hartmann replied solemnly: "It can only be them, this specimen is water that has been boiling for five minutes." ”
"Their bodies are transparent, and if they weren't dyed, they wouldn't be visible, and I found them in samples that I hadn't found before. ”
The more the medic talked, the more excited he became, he hadn't slept for several days to find the pathogen, and now he had become a little mentally abnormal after making a major discovery.
His already bloodshot eyes grew redder and redder as he shouted, "This will be easy, we can quickly find the ...... who killed them."
Erich, who was helping to boil the potion outside the door, turned his head when he heard his father's voice, and then when the others pushed the door and walked into the warehouse, he saw that the usually gentle and kind saintess sister in the warehouse had cut his father unconscious with a knife.
Little Erich shrunk his neck and hurriedly continued to fill the stove with firewood.
There's still a lot of work to be done after identifying the pathogen, but Hartmann's body and mind have reached their limits, and it's not okay to get some sleep and rest first.
Mira returned to the village chief's house, where she picked up a piece of paper and began to write documents to inform the epidemic prevention personnel in other villages.
The next priority is to find a way to kill this pathogen efficiently and cheaply, and the second is to determine the source of the pathogen in the river, to see if they are naturally wild mutated in the river, or from somewhere, if the latter is the case, the possible source of pollution must be cleaned up.
Things were complicated, and after Mira finished writing the paperwork, she asked the priest on duty tonight to send it out, and then picked up the oatmeal porridge that Chasi had just sent and drank it.
"What's a little sour?" she sensed that the oatmeal didn't taste right.
Chasi, who was sitting on the side and napping against the cabinet, was clever, she rubbed her eyes and said, "I saw that our family's medicine has some effect on curing diseases, so I added a little bit to it, which can be regarded as prevention." ”
Mira just nodded, she was very familiar with this bactericidal and antiseptic elixir extracted from maple syrup, this elixir is not estimated to be the most effective among the herbs that can be found so far, but it should be high in yield and extremely low in cost.
She finished the bowl of oatmeal in a few bites, and the sour taste made her shiver.
At present, her task is mainly to command and coordinate the epidemic prevention work in the entire region, which belongs to the business of the Temple of Light, and other temples have said that they will cooperate with the facts.
There is still a lot of work to be done at hand, and the procurement and transportation of drugs alone is a very troublesome matter.
It was the first time she had carried such a heavy burden, and the pressure that thousands of people might die because of her own negligence had never been felt before.
She sat back down at the table after drinking the oatmeal, and after yawning, she suddenly fell on the table with a "bang", and her eyes were black and she didn't know anything.
This kind of thing is to drug the saint, and only the demon villain in it will do it.