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Chapter 1539 The Plague Area

In the plague area of ​​Tianjin Wei, almost all the patients are isolated here. The smell is so bad that even the police officers who are in charge of isolating them need to wear masks, and they dare not approach without orders.

People died of dehydration every hour, which was even more creepy, and there were vomiting and wailing everywhere.

"It's really scary. In just three days, more than 300 people have died. The plagues in the past are nothing more than this. If this continues, we don't know how many people died. Doctors and doctors are helpless. Our Tianjin guards have frequent turnover, and we don't know. Where did the plague come from?"

"Now there is a saying in the city that the plague spreads through miasma, and a kind of miasma infected these patients. I don't know if it is true or not. Everyone in the city is in danger, and some people sprinkle lime on the street, but it has no effect at all. Now three days The number of sick people has reached more than 800 people."

The officials of Tianjin Wei Yamen are also wearing masks to patrol the plague area. They are the parents of the place. If such a big thing happened, they must stand up.

The scene in the plague area made these officials feel shocking. Few of them have seen such a terrible scene, just like hell on earth.

In the face of the plague, the current civilization technology is so fragile that they don't even know the cause, mode of transmission, and treatment.

"My lord, the telegraph station in the capital telegraphed that the plague investigation team has already left the capital by train and will arrive at our Tianjin Wei soon." A telegraph operator urgently informed the officials of the Tianjin Wei Yamen.

"The savior has come, follow me to the train station to meet them!" The officials of Tianjin Wei Yamen were overjoyed.

Tianjin Wei Railway Station has been blocked by soldiers with muskets on their backs. No one is allowed to leave the city through the railway station until the source of the plague is found out.

However, trains from other cities can still transport supplies and personnel here.

An investigation team composed of the Department of Medicine, the School of Biology, and the School of Nursing came to Tianjin Wei. They discovered the haze hanging over the city-the streets were deserted, and occasionally a few pedestrians who went to the street to buy vegetables were in a hurry. Dare to walk on the street, and some people sprinkle lime and water at the door of the house.

"Your reaction speed is really fast, you have come here so soon. Alas, our place is usually very prosperous and lively, but now everyone is afraid of the plague and dare not go out." The officials of Tianjin Wei said worriedly to the arrival said the investigation team.

"Everyone wears a mask, just in case. Your Highness, you wear a mask too, don't make fun of your life." Xiao Xiuer checked everyone's wearing masks.

Sophia quickly put on the mask, revealing only a pair of water-blue eyes.

"My lord, please take us to the plague area where the patient is."

"It's natural."

A mighty investigation team of 200 people entered the urban area, and many residents carefully looked at these people in white coats through the cracks in the doors.

They were notified later that these people were doctors sent by the capital to extinguish the plague.

Hearing that the capital sent investigators immediately, the residents of Tianjin Wei who were not sick were relieved.At least they weren't abandoned.

Xiao Xiuer's investigation team came to the plague area.

The plague area is not the place where the plague broke out, but all the patients suffering from the plague were concentrated in a village outside the city and near Yizhuang to prevent them from infecting the people in the city.

"We concentrated all the patients in this village, but new patients keep appearing in the city. It's incredible. 300 people have died because of the plague, and the Yizhuang next door is overcrowded." The official introduced the basics to the investigation team who arrived. Case.

"There are several possibilities. First, the source of the disease has not been eliminated in the city; second, there are still patients hiding in the city for fear of being transported here to die; they are the new source of infection; third, the guards here Maybe someone in the doctor got sick because of contact with the patient, and then brought the plague back to the city..."

When the investigation team came to the village, all the patients were seriously dehydrated and out of shape.

"What a terrible disease..." Xiao Xiu'er had seen many diseases, but she had never seen such a large-scale vicious infectious disease, she couldn't help but be shocked.

"It is rumored in the city that the poisonous miasma emanating from the soil caused the plague. Do you think it is the poisonous gas in the city that caused the plague to rampant?" an official said.

"It is unlikely to be toxic gas. If it is really harmful gas, the nose, respiratory tract and lungs should be infected first... But now it seems that almost all patients are infected with the stomach. It is very likely that something wrong happened. Clean food or...water?" Xiao Xiuer and other doctors immediately thought of food and water poisoning.

"I need a sick body to be dissected to see if I can find the root cause." Koch, the leader of the School of Biology, directly asked for the corpse.

"There are a lot of them in Yizhuang, just need to communicate with their families. You should also know that the parents pay attention to the body and skin, and the people pay attention to the peace of the earth. To be honest, they are not willing to hand it over... But don't worry, this one Just let us handle the matter." An official from the Tianjin Wei government yamen said.

They don't know how to find the cause of the disease, but they play an indispensable role in the aftermath and maintaining order. Without the government, the rescue operation cannot be carried out smoothly.

When Princess Sophia saw that her mentor was about to go for an autopsy, her little face turned pale with fright.

She followed Koch to study bacteriology before, and she was exposed to culture medium or some birds and beasts, but this time she directly dissected the disease, which was a big gap.

"Our medical department also wants to take some sick bodies for research." Xiao Xiu'er was not as nervous as a novice like Princess Sophia, her tone was very calm, and she was used to these things.

"Okay, okay." The officials were also very impressed that these doctors and the people in the Institute of Biology were not afraid of the sick body at all, and wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads.

Soon the investigative team began work that many officials thought they wanted to keep at arm's length.

Princess Sophia, who had never experienced anything like this before, turned pale. After the intense work started, Princess Sophia wanted to vomit several times, but she was considered tenacious and did not back down.

"The people in the investigation team are really desperate. They don't respect ghosts and gods at all. Wouldn't the timid people be scared to death?"

"What they do is the lowly work that a professional would do. It's really hard for them."

A group of officials could not intervene in this matter, and admired the behavior of the investigation team.

In addition to physicians and bacteriologists conducting anatomical studies, nurses tended to the patients. They seemed to relieve the pain of these patients and rehydrated the dehydrated patients, but the effect was not great.

(End of this chapter)