1899 Plague
Although there is no humanitarian organization like the International Red Cross in this era, the profession of doctors itself has a certain scent of international praise, and any country will respect doctors. Of course, local governments will not stop the request of Chinese medical teams to land.
Fourteen sampans carried seventy Marine soldiers and sixty medical staff. Under the leadership of Buck and Huang Xie Doctor, the city full of Middle Eastern desert style began to become clearer.
There are yellow houses everywhere, the roofs are covered with wood and dry coconut grass, and the walls are filled with potholes of mud. When the hot wind blows, you can see the sand peeling off the wall with your own eyes.
Port Suez is not a large-scale city. It is just a small town attached to the canal. It is considered as the head of the town with two thousand people in this building.
Dirty houses and streets, lazy wild dogs searching for everything they can eat on the streets, and the slightest bit of coconut trees is the only little vitality in the city. Without this little green, maybe everyone really thinks this is a dead city.
Ma Hui scratched his nose, "It's too weird here? Where are the people? Where are they?..."
"Ma Hui Company Commander, please bring a mask!" Doctor Huang Xie said seriously. "From now on, we have entered the epidemic area. Everyone must listen to our orders. The first is to wear a mask. Second, you cannot eat or drink any food and water in this city. Third, when you encounter corpses and patients in collective action, don't contact them without authorization..."
The scary tone made everyone present dare not neglect. Everyone brought masks and checked their carry-on kettle and compressed biscuits. The soldiers checked their rifles and ammunition. The doctors opened their carry-on wooden boxes and checked their equipment and medicines according to the number.
The sampan slowly rushed to the beach, and the soldiers jumped into the water first, dragged the sampan to the diving beach area with their hands. Then the doctors began to get ashore. At this time, the local magistrate of Suez Port, a bearded man in a robe, came over and welcomed him in unsmooth English.
"Welcome, friends from afar, I hope Allah bless you!"
Buck looked at the bearded local official's eyes, but that also flashed, and then smiled and hugged the local official and tried to ask, "Where are the officials of the Canal Authority? Are they indifferent to this plague?"
The local official's face changed and smiled and did not answer, "Dear guests... We have gathered in the empty houses west of the pier. If you want to see me, I will take you there..." After saying that, he led four soldiers in ragged clothes and led the way.
Buck, Huang Xieyi and Ma Huiluo Monkey gathered together and whispered, "It seems that the French are clearly in a fight with us. Egypt is nominally a province of the Ottoman Empire, but everyone knows that the canal is managed by the French!"
"Judges, taxes, garrisons... are all managed by the French. Do you see the European-style building at the dock? Where is the French Canal Authority, where is the real owner of the city!"
"The real master does not show up and let these puppet-like officials stand up. I really don't know what they are holding back! Everyone is careful..."
Ma Hui sneered at the building in the distance, "It's okay, at most they are disgusting people and dare not really take action... There are so many cannons on the sea to support us, scaring them to death!"
"Brothers, distract the alert..."
The soldiers holding guns protected the medical team in it, and the team that was clearly here to treat the disease and save people was so murderous.
Along the way, everyone discovered that the city had become extremely terrifying due to the plague. People were rarely seen on the streets and alleys, and even if there were people, they would be in a hurry and dare not stop.
Especially when seeing these murderous outsiders, the local people were so scared that they quickly fled into the alley. They even felt that behind countless wooden doors, many eyes were secretly observing them.
In this era, the Chinese are very unfamiliar with the Middle Eastern nations, but they are not unfamiliar with the weapons and equipment in the hands of soldiers and the powerful murderous aura. These indigenous people vaguely feel that this group of people is even more terrifying than the French garrison at the wharf.
The local officials who led the way could personally experience the fierce murderous aura behind them. They didn't dare to say anything along the way, just kept wiping their sweat. Soon the group came to the edge of the city, and a huge mud wall courtyard appeared in front of people. It seemed to be a place for the desert merchants and tourists to rest.
"It's here. Now there are more than 200 sick patients gather here. There are still many people in the city who are uncomfortable. Bless you, God..."
When I opened the gate of the yard, almost everyone subconsciously covered their mouths and noses. People smelled the stench through the thick mask.
"Oh my god! Is this a slaughterhouse?"
The yard was filled with patients lying all over the place, some were humming constantly, some were fainting and unconscious, some were obviously dead, and flies were crawling on it. The yard was covered with men, and women's clothes were exposed in the room.
There were fresh and dry vomit everywhere on the ground, and there were dirt for urine and defecation under the body. The local magistrate jumped and covered his nose and ran away. "It was these cursed people, it's here... Do whatever you want! Allah bless you!"
"Damn, it's so unfaithful! These are all your fellow villagers, you'll run away first..." Luo Houzi cursed and wanted to shoot him in the back.
This kind of occasion requires the doctor's psychological quality. I have never seen any nauseating scenes of Buck and Huang Xie Doctor. There are thousands of corpses studied by them. These more than 200 plague patients are definitely small scenes.
"Preparing for the test... Each group acted separately, the first group tested feces and urine, and the second group tested vomit..."
"Little Luo, you start to identify the dead patients, let the soldiers and brothers help separate the living and the dead, and the dead are concentrated in the dunes outside..."
"Prepare blood samples...I suspect this is a plague caused by dysentery. In addition, some soldiers were sent to the wells of the entire harbor to take the water samples! Alright, take action immediately..."
It’s not because Xiao Letian’s high investment in medical care has directly raised a group of well-trained medical staff. Huang XieDi and Buck didn’t have to talk nonsense at all, and all the teams immediately took action.
The medical wooden boxes were opened, microscopes, petri dishes, alcohol stoves... and precision laboratory supplies were arranged in a row, and each group began a meticulous inspection.
Chapter completed!