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"Major, can't such a delicious drink make you happy?" Shixiong smiled and touched the glass again with Major Fogg, and asked after taking a sip.

Since Major Fogg led his team to the Gaoshu tribe this time, Shi Xiong has clearly felt that this young major seems to have something on his mind, and he always inadvertently reveals a strong look of worry.

Major Fogg looked at Shi Xiong, and the inadvertent worries that had just been revealed in his eyebrows disappeared instantly. He smiled, raised the glass and drank the wine in the glass. Then he grabbed a bunch of beef skewers, chewing hard, and slowly said: "My Lord Guardian, my hometown is in London. Canterbury, to the east, is a very quiet seaside port on the south bank of the Thames estuary."

Shi Xiong thought for a while, and finally shook his head helplessly. Regarding the geography of the United Kingdom, he only knew about London, Southampton, Birmingham, Manchester and other big cities, such as Cambridge and Oxford. The university is very famous.

As for what Major Fogg said about Canterbury, he really didn't know.

"But some time ago I received a letter from my family saying that the horrible smallpox disease has begun to spread again. It is said that there has been a mess in London, and there seems to be a smallpox patient in my hometown Canterbury. Now, my hometown. People are panicking over there..."

"Smallpox..." Shi Xiong murmured in his mouth, and frowned closely. "Adria, are you sure that smallpox has become popular again?"

Major Fogg frowned and shook his head and said: "I didn't see it with my own eyes, but the letter from my family said so, so I can't be sure now. But, Master Guardian, this is smallpox. Last time, smallpox. The time when the empire became popular is only more than 30 years away. At that time, I was still young. It is said that during the smallpox epidemic, more than 200,000 people lost their lives..."

Shi Xiong sighed slightly.

From the era of the information explosion in later generations, how can he not understand the horror of smallpox?

Regardless of later generations, smallpox, a malignant infectious disease that has been ranked in the top three in human history, has been completely eliminated, but in this era, in Europe in the middle of the eighteenth century, smallpox is indeed a horror comparable to the death sickle exist.

In later generations, some people have counted the several malignant infectious diseases with the highest number of deaths in human history. The flu ranked first, the black death ranked second, and smallpox ranked third.

Let's not talk about the flu, let alone the past, even in the era before the stone bear crossed, there is no good way for humans to take the flu. There are so many people who died of flu in the entire history of human civilization, and there is no way to count them.

Anyway, the Spanish flu alone caused 40 million deaths, which is four times the number of deaths in World War I!

The Black Death, a name that sounds scary, is actually the plague.

The most famous Black Death in history broke out in the Sicily Islands in Italy in the middle of the fourteenth century. The disease broke out in the Sicily Islands in 1347, and then swept across Europe in just three years, and caused two thousand in the following two decades. Five million Europeans died.

As long as the patient has this disease, there is no possibility of cure. There are many dark spots on the skin and the death process is extremely painful, so it is called the "black death". The disease made a comeback in Europe many times in the following three hundred years. Scholars of later generations estimated that as many as 300 million people died from the plague, and this number accounted for half of the entire European population!

It should be understood that the number of people who died in World War II accounted for only about 5% of the European population, and a black death caused the loss of half of Europe’s population. It took a full 150 years for the whole of Europe to recover. The "power" of death.

In addition to the flu and the Black Death, smallpox is also discolored.

No one knows exactly where the vicious infectious disease of smallpox came from. Some people say that this terrible infectious disease existed in Egypt as early as the third millennium AD, because smallpox was seen on the mummies of Egyptian pharaohs unearthed in later generations. Scar underneath.

Some people also say that this disease originated from India. Whether it was the smallpox virus in ancient China or Europe, it was spread from India...

But no matter how smallpox appeared, there is no denying that this infectious disease is definitely a terrorist infectious disease comparable to the Black Death.

The number of deaths from smallpox in other parts of the world is no longer counted, but in Europe alone, as of the eighteenth century, as many as 150 million Europeans have died from this terrible infectious disease.

When the malignant infectious disease of natural flower began to erupt in Europe in the Middle Ages, this terrifying malignant infectious disease left an indelible "mark" to Europe!

At that time, in Europe, on average, one in five people had a "pink face", which was the mark left by smallpox. Even the supreme kings could not escape bad luck. King Louis XV of France, Queen Mary II of England, King Joseph I of Germany, and Tsar Peter II of Russia were all killed by smallpox.

What is even more terrifying is that when the Spanish conquered the Indians in Central and South America, they did not use artillery and muskets, but the smallpox virus.

It is said that when the Spaniards first landed in South and Central America, the force of the Spaniards was far from comparable to the armed forces of the local Indians, and even the Spaniards were once beaten by the Indians.

We must know that there were only a few hundred Spaniards at the time. UU read www.uukanshu.com and in Central and South America there were as many as 30 million Native Indians.

In this case, the **** Spanish invaders began to think of tricks. They gave the blankets used by smallpox patients to the Indians, and smallpox broke out on the road. Then the mumps, measles, cholera, gonorrhea, and yellow fever spread from Europe. In the end, many infectious diseases, led by smallpox, made the Indians of Central and South America The number of people has plummeted to less than one million...

It is no exaggeration to say that the reason why the Spaniards can finally dominate Central and South America is relying on this invisible but infinitely powerful smallpox virus!

Therefore, smallpox is definitely a very terrifying and malignant infectious disease.

Shi Xiong knew this from beginning to end. Although he also knew that a smallpox pandemic broke out in Europe in the eighteenth century, and he also knew that during the smallpox pandemic, a large number of Europeans died from this disease, even the current French king King Louis XV would eventually die after being infected with smallpox eight years later!

But he really didn't expect that news about smallpox appeared so early...