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Chapter 1547 Cholera from India

"It is very likely that this disease came from India? Why is it so familiar..."

After the investigation team controlled the plague, Chu Yun received a detailed report from the investigation team, which detailed all the findings of the investigation team in this plague incident.

After a reasonable guess, the investigation team believed that the Vibrio might have come from the unfamiliar India.This speculation made Chu Yun seem to hear something.

"What kind of disease is it? Made in India?" Chu Yun paced back and forth in Tianjin Wei's stop, thinking hard.

Before the 21st century, there were many major plagues that could easily cause great damage to human civilization, including smallpox, typhoid, measles, plague, yellow fever, influenza...

"India, the empire on which the sun never sets, and the 19th century?" Chu Yun recalled some unfamiliar knowledge in his mind, and associating these key words together, the answer was ready to come out.

"It can't be cholera...?" Chu Yun thought of the name of a terrible disease.

Cholera has been recorded in China for a long time, but it is also a gastrointestinal disease. The cholera recorded in China is false cholera, and the true cholera that spread from India to the world is caused by a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae. Before its pathogenic mechanism was known, it was a terrible infectious disease no less than smallpox and plague.

In the 19th century, when the empire on which the sun never sets ruled India, cholera was brought out of India by merchants, sailors, and soldiers of the empire on which the sun never set, and spread to the whole world, triggering several global cholera outbreaks.

No wonder it was so familiar, Chu Yun only realized that it was cholera at this moment.

He seized Calcutta, which originally belonged to the empire on which the sun never set. As a result, Chinese sailors replaced British soldiers and spread cholera.

This can be regarded as a gain and a loss. Diseases are often accompanied by expansion, trade, and war. If you want to be a new empire on which the sun never sets, you must bear the risks it faces.

Fortunately, before Chu Yun could react, his investigation team turned the tide and quickly found Vibrio cholerae and the corresponding solution, without causing more deaths.

Chu Yun vaguely remembered that this kind of Vibrio cholerae is a very ancient bacterium, which has been prevalent in Bangladesh for a long time, especially when there are large-scale festivals in the local Ganges River, a large number of people are concentrated on the banks of the Ganges River, and they do not pay attention to it. health.Vibrio cholerae breeds in such an environment, and each activity will cause tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of deaths.

However, because global trade was still at a very backward stage in the past, cholera caused by Vibrio cholerae only stayed near the Ganges River. This is the first time that it broke out in China.

This incident gave Chu Yun some inspiration. He had to re-examine the disease problem in global trade, and must establish a quarantine system to prevent overseas infectious diseases from being brought back to the mainland again.

Wait, if you sell the saline solution for cholera at a high price to Bangladesh where cholera outbreaks occur from time to time, will you make a fortune?
Chu Yun thought of another drug that could make huge profits besides the smallpox vaccine.The raw materials needed to make normal saline can be said to be very common. The problem is that the nobles and commoners in Bangladesh don’t know the principle, so how could they think of such a treatment method?

By the way, doctors need to be sent to Calcutta and other strongholds as soon as possible to guide them in dealing with the disease. Maybe these overseas strongholds will also be attacked by the plague.

Chu Yun has not received reports from overseas about the outbreak of the plague, which is also normal. After all, the Vibrio found at this time appears to be very fragile. If Calcutta had implemented the "Health Regulations" from the beginning, it would not be enough if there was no outbreak of the plague. Surprised.

"Professor, why do you still keep a sample of Vibrio?"

Princess Sophia and the other students couldn't help feeling surprised that Koch kept the culprit of the plague.

"We don't know enough about it. If we can keep such a sample, we can conduct further research on it after returning to the capital. Don't think that all harmful things have to be wiped out. We still have to keep a living sample. , for emergencies. For example, in the future, if this bacterium reappears or mutates, we can start research immediately." Koch cherishes this sample very much.

What he spreads is also a new concept, not only animals and plants need to be protected, even bacteria and viruses that are harmful to the human body also need a sample to be kept in the laboratory.

Princess Sofia and other trainees thought a little bit, and they also began to learn a new way of thinking to look at the problem.

If we put it in the past, we must want to get rid of this deadly germ quickly, but even the germ has research value.

"This Vibrio has not yet been named, it can be named after the discoverer, it can be called Vibrio Sophia."

The investigation team has not yet named this terrible bacterium, so someone proposed the strange name "Vibrio Sophia".

Princess Sophia was not happy when she heard it. This kind of bacteria is not a good bacteria, but it killed 500 people.

"If it is a beneficial bacterium, it can be called Sophia bacteria, but it is not a good thing, and it almost killed me." Sophia said angrily.

She almost died from this vibrio cholerae!
Princess Sofia's protest was useless. In the subsequent research, the investigation team still named the vibrio that appeared in the laboratory for the first time as "Sofia Vibrio", also commonly known as "Princess Vibrio". The original Vibrio cholerae.

The investigation team regrouped at the train station. After the plague was brought under control, the train station has resumed operation, and everything has become calm again.

"The ship of the East India Company with vibrio was under control. We have destroyed all the water and food on board. The customs officer who put the patient ashore that day resigned because of negligence." The officials of Tianjin Wei told Chu Yun before he left Tianjin Wei Final debrief.

"This incident cannot be easily blamed on the customs officials. We lack a strict customs quarantine system, so that germs from overseas can be easily transmitted back to the mainland. After I return to the capital, I will order the General Administration of Customs and the Ministry of Medicine Work together to develop a corresponding customs quarantine system. If there are sick people among the crew who declare at the customs in the future, they need to be quarantined and observed, and they can go ashore after they are confirmed to be safe." Chu Yun just took advantage of the cholera incident to establish a stricter health system.

The current progress in sanitation is reflected in the prohibition of livestock on the streets and keeping the streets clean, but it is obviously not hygienic enough.The establishment of urban sanitation and quarantine systems can improve the living standards of ordinary residents, which itself is a manifestation of technological progress.

(End of this chapter)