This place belongs to western Sichuan, and the temperature is relatively cold, especially the surrounding mountains.

In this weather, it may snow from time to time?

However, Ye Chen knew that it was snowing this day and it was impossible for him to really eliminate this germ.

After Ye Chen gave those severe patients the ointment made of camellia medicine, he also had to see how effective it would be if he took it.

Now Ye Chen wants to do something else, but he is afraid he can't do it either.

Chatting with the old lady in the room, I learned that the old lady had never had this Zhaojia Village in her life.

The old lady didn't want to get married at that time, but because she had been married to a man in the next village. Later, she heard that she didn't come back when she got out. Others thought she was abusing her husband, and then she didn't get married when she was old. Now she has become a five-guarantee household in the village.

However, she is in good health. In addition to her minimum living allowance income, she also receives rice and oil from the village, and then she can go out to pick up firewood to burn it. Such a life is still acceptable.

"It's been like this for the rest of my life, but it's nothing." The old lady said while she was basking her hands.

Ye Chen was about to ask if this kind of plague had occurred in the village before, when the old Chinese doctor Director Wang hurried over to find him.

"Doctor Ye, something happened."

"Director Wang, what happened?"

Ye Chen thought something happened to the patients he treated.

"It was a villager next door who also had similar symptoms."

Next door village?

“How far is it?”

“It’s only two or three kilometers away.”

Two or three kilometers away, it is actually very close. You should have just climbed the nearest mountain.

"Similar symptoms?"

Ye Chen said to the old lady and stood up.

Xia Qi and Liao Bingxue also followed.

"What's going on with Director Wang?"

Could it be that the epidemic has really spread? If it is really like that, then it will be troublesome?

Plagues like this are most afraid of spreading. If they spread to places with a large population, the more troublesome it will be.

In addition, it is now during the Spring Festival, and it is even more troublesome if those people move to the city.

"I just heard that, now I'll let you go over and take a look."

Liao Bingxue and Xia Qi did not follow him. Ye Chen followed a Western doctor and came to a nearby village called Gran Village in a military car.

While there, Ye Chen soon learned that in addition to the Han people, there were other ethnic minorities living here.

So, when Ye Chen came here, he found that the situation was a little different.

Now this happens in one of them. The village doctor is a Miao doctor. He has seen it and cannot be cured. He also heard that the situation in the village next door has recently reported it immediately. When he came, Ye Chen and the doctor of the West went over to see it.

A young woman with a red face and looks over 20 years old, lying on the bed, looking exactly the same as the villagers in Liujia Village.

“When did it start?”

"It was yesterday."

It should have been earlier, but this patient and others did not notice it.

Soon, Ye Chen learned that the young woman was named Zhuoma, who was a villager in this village and usually mainly grazed sheep.

However, it still snows occasionally, so of course I don’t go out to herd sheep. I usually contact those flocks, and the food they eat is also fed by Zhuoma.

"She always feeds the sheep? Is there anything wrong with the flock?"

They didn't know that sheep can also be used as a source of infection, and can even be transmitted to humans. Now that something happened to Zhuoma, did the sheep flocks have an accident?

When Ye Chen followed him over and looked, he soon saw a group of hundreds of goats, but it seemed that there was no problem.

What Ye Chen didn't expect was that he actually saw an animal that looked very cute here.

"Is this a groundhog?"

Ye Chen asked.

He remembered that he had seen it on the Mongolian Plateau.

"It's a groundhog."

There are actually groundhogs here, and those people did not harm them, but usually feed them.

It looks harmless.

However, Ye Chen knew that this groundhog also carries viruses.

Suddenly, Ye Chen thought of something.

"Did Zhuoma have been in contact with these groundhogs before?"

"Yes, it was originally cold, so Zhuoma brought it back here to keep it."

Zhuoma's family introduced.

Ye Chen's expression changed even more when he heard this.

When I returned to Zhuoma's room, Zhuoma now had high fever, cough, phlegm, and difficulty breathing. Although I had taken some antipyretics, it was useless.

Ye Chen directly checked Zhuoma's arm and found that there were multiple wounds on her arm, and she saw that it seemed to be bitten by a sharp object.

"Doctor Ye, what are you looking at?"

"Did you think this has been bitten by something?"

"It should be that there are tooth marks on it."

The Western doctor also saw it.

At this time, Ye Chen guessed even more that it was probably related to the groundhog.

"Zhuoma should have been bitten by a groundhog, and the groundhog carries the plague virus. Now I suspect that Zhuoma's situation is infected with the plague. In addition, the villagers in Liujia Village are likely to be the same."

plague?

When I heard that it was plague, the Western doctor's expression naturally changed.

He knew that Ye Chen didn't say it casually.

It's probably true.

There has been a plague like this. Although there has not been a large-scale outbreak, it has occurred almost every year, and there have been deaths.

Like this time, several elderly people died in Liujia Village.

If it is really a plague, then before, they found that the symptoms of the villagers in Liujia Village are indeed very similar to those of the plague.

However, it seems a little different.

"Isolation will be carried out immediately, and the villagers in the village must take a shower frequently."

It is very cold here, and many villagers may not take a bath for many days. The plague is the main transmission route through the bites of rat fleas, which can spread pathogens in animals to humans, forming a transmission method from rodents to fleas and then to humans.

Many seem to be explained clearly now.

It can even be learned that the source of infection is likely to be plague, or even the transmission of groundhogs.

"Doctor Ye, it's really possible."

The more this Western doctor thought about it, the more excited he became.

If it is really a plague, it will be easy to treat.

However, Ye Chen was not so optimistic, but said: "Even if it is related to plague, it is likely to be a mutated plague. I suggest that your Western medicine immediately treat patients based on the original plague."

The Western doctor nodded, feeling that it was exactly that way.

As for this Zhuoma, she now has similar symptoms in the Gran Village, but it is not known whether other villagers have incubation periods.

However, Ye Chen knew that the villagers really needed to take a bath and clean up their bodies, including clothes and even beds.

Ye Chen also thought, why is the old lady in Liujia Village okay?

One is that the old lady is likely to love cleanliness, and the other is that the camellia tea that the other person drinks has a good effect.
Chapter completed!