1900 The source of the plague
"Do you do it? Take this opportunity to incite the indigenous people to attack these Chinese..."
"No, no, no, look at it again. I'm very curious about what tricks these Chinese can find out. Why do they waste their energy when a plague that has nothing to do with them?"
The one hiding in the window was Viscount Ferdinand, the Consul General of France who lives in Egypt, and was also the manager behind the entire canal company. Napoleon III trusted him very much. Viscount Ferdinand's troops from two Egyptian brigades could be fully mobilized.
This time, in order to deal with the Chinese, he actually rushed to Suez Port from the comfortable Cairo in advance, but he himself did not expect that he would encounter this sudden plague just a few days after he arrived.
"Sir, why should you hesitate? Those natives who only recognize money have long complained that we have given less deposits. It is better to take this opportunity to let them make some money first, so that they can calm their hearts..."
"Enough! What can you tell what is ignorant!" Ferdinand whispered and said, "Can't you see the professionalism of these people? I know that they are extraordinary based on the equipment in the hands of these doctors. When will so many high-quality doctors come out in barbaric Asia?"
"This plague not only kills the indigenous people, but even our garrison and company employees are also threatened. Now there are people who are not afraid of death and want to find a solution. Why not look coldly? Let's wait until they find the answer, we have time..."
Through the window and the open courtyard door opposite, Viscount Ferdinand could clearly see all the movements in the courtyard, especially the wooden medical boxes arranged in a row in the corners of the wall and the row of microscopes on it, which proved the professionalism of this group of people.
The bodies of the dead were carried out, and the vomit and urine that extracted samples were dug deep pits on the spot. The melted samples in the glass sheet were placed under the microscope. The culprit of the plague gradually came to the water.
"There are red blood cells and white blood cells that exceed the standard in the fecal sample..."
"Staminophobia aureus exceeds the standard...Dysenteria exceeds the standard..."
"A large number of patients have symptoms of severe bleeding in the stool... Three unknown bacteria were found in the vomit, and samples have been extracted and retained..."
"The patient is dehydrated in large quantities and needs to supplement salt and sugar water. I will find local officials to coordinate... prepare to draw blood and test blood samples..."
The entire medical team began to work in a intensive and orderly manner. Now Dr. Buck and Dr. Huang Xie are 80% sure that the root cause of this plague is dysentery, but the source of dysentery must be found. Only by finding the source can the final judgment be made.
After two and a half hours of busyness, soldiers who went to the port to extract samples rushed back one after another, and the glass bottles were filled with turbid well water.
"There are six wells in Suez Port, and all of them have been extracted... These Egyptians are so different. No one cares about us when we ask them to lead the way. We all look at us like ghosts..." Ma Hui cursed in anger.
"Don't be impatient, they have no idea about the plague. Maybe in their eyes, this plague is just a divine punishment!"
"I found it... Sure enough, five of the samples from the six wells had E. coli and dysentery bacteria, and various other intestinal harmful bacteria also seriously exceeded the standard..."
"That's right!" Buck strided out of the yard. "It should be a huge outbreak of dysentery caused by drinking water pollution. This is not a very serious plague. As long as you teach locals how to prevent it, you can effectively stop it. Take me to inspect the well and let the local officials come as a guide immediately..."
"Don't mention, that timid guy met once when we were looking for a well, but he was reluctant to lead us. That guy was already scared! The other local residents also had a moral character, and they hid when they saw us, and they would yell desperately once they knocked on the door. We didn't understand whether God knew whether he was scolding us..."
Luo Monkey said with a frown, "Not only that, I feel like I am being monitored. There must be a group of people spying on us. It is not advisable to stay here for a long time! Don't forget the previous reminder of the Head of State, maybe the French will come to cause trouble!"
Of course, Buck and Huang Xie Doctor knew that this was the territory of the French, but the doctor's duty was to cure diseases and save people, especially this large-scale plague. Two hundred people had fallen down at the port of 3,000 people. If you let it go, at least one-third of people will be infected in the future.
The doctor's parents' hearts are not too concerned at this moment. "No, we cannot see the people here die in vain. These Egyptians dare not lead the way, so we will find them ourselves!"
"What are you looking for?" the soldiers asked in unison.
"Find a toilet!"
"Ah?" Everyone was stunned.
Immediately afterwards, the people of Suez Port discovered the behavior of these Oriental people like crazy people. They did not lead the way, but searched the city like a carpet, and entered the toilet when they saw it and dug deep wells around the cesspool.
There was no flush toilet in that era, and there was no underground drainage system in Suez. The toilet was nothing more than digging a hole in the sand and surrounding it with reed mats.
The poor use public toilets on the street, and rich families will build toilets in their own yards. Anyway, the yellow sand is everywhere, and the weather will soon dry and weather. Then, buried deep in the sand and it will be considered cleaned.
This is a living habit of ancient people for thousands of years, but in the eyes of these bacteriologists, this habit is a very dangerous behavior.
"Sure enough, the groundwater has been polluted..." After digging five meters underground, wet sand was seen. There were indeed a large number of bacteria in the sewage samples extracted here.
At this point, the Chinese medical team spent four and a half hours to figure out the whole plague.
"Let's go and find the local officials! No..." Barker suddenly thought for a while, "Let's go and find the person in charge of the Canal Company. I think only the French can understand what we are saying, and they can't explain it clearly to these local natives!"
"Looking for Frenchman? Doctor Buck, you're crazy... Isn't this just a boring thing? They don't care about us!"
"It's one thing that the French ignore us, but we know the answer to the question but don't tell it, that's another thing!" The stubborn British doctor Barker was determined to meet with the Canal Company's managers.
In Dr. Buck's heart, he is a British man. No matter how much the French hate Chinese, he should at least give himself some face.
But unexpectedly, Buck and his party were turned away at the entrance of the two-story building.
Two French soldiers looked at Buck and his group in horror and took up the bayonet, "Stop, don't move forward! You are all from the house where the plague is just now, don't approach the company... retreat!"
"Damn it! Do you actually dare to show us bayonets? Brothers, put the bayonets on them and see who is afraid of whom!" The horse replied with a command, and there was a sound of bayonets beside him. A row of Mauser rifles with bayonets were shakyly placed in front of the noses of French soldiers.
"A conscienceless thing! We will solve the plague for you. You will never say thank you and dare to use a bayonet! If you have a species, you can try it... you can't pick you to death!"
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