Chapter 1003 Gretel: Cerela, don’t ask if a good girl doesn’t need to know!
Gretel has no idea how the Governor's Mansion of the Storm Islands reacted, what the Kingdom of Brolin and the Holy See of Glory thought after receiving the news, and what powerful people from afar might come over.
——He didn’t even go out of the research institute. The large group of people from the parliament had already left by airship. Only one group of people were left looking at the mage tower in the capital city of Tenoch, and the other group looked at the mage tower at the port;
Those low-level mages, merchants, and magic craftsmen who came with the airship, centered on the two wizard towers, purchased materials, made magic products, and sold them to external parties;
Some people who are too energetic also go back and forth in the plateau basin, go up and down nearby, and drill here and there to explore. From time to time, someone comes knocking on the door:
"Master Nordmark, could you please tell me what the use of this plant is?"
Show me a plant, and you dig it up by the roots!
What's the use of giving me a dead dried flower? Even if I can talk to plants, do you expect me to talk to half of a dead plant organ?
"Mage Nordmark, could you please check, I was bitten by an insect..."
stop!
Do not move!
Don't get scared and run away when you see me take out the knife!
I want to see if bugs have laid eggs in your arms!
Body-holding technique!
"Mage Nordmark, look at this ore..."
Take it away!
I'm not a change type!
For ore identification and other matters, ask people from their alchemy branch to come! Unless you get a strange disease while staying with this ore - for example, this happens to be a piece of pitchblende - if this happens, come to me again!
Things like this happened many times. Gretel was originally interested in walking around Tenoch City and accompanying Serira to see the strange things. Gradually, he simply didn’t even leave the door of the research institute, focusing on
Stuck in the middle of yellow fever research.
There is nothing we can do if we don’t stay in the research institute. The airship’s return to Nevis will take ten days and a half at the earliest;
To summon the necromancers of the plague branch in Nevis, even if those necromancers enthusiastically sign up, collect the jars, gather the guards, and prepare the travel supplies, it will still take three to five days to seven to eight days;
Then, it is impossible for these necromancers to receive special treatment from airships: they have to come here by themselves. Take a boat for a month or two, from the east coast of the New World to the west coast for a month or two, and the west coast to Eagle Point.
country……
Even if everything goes well, Grete estimates that if they can arrive before the end of the rainy season, it will be considered extremely efficient.
Before this, the institute only had Gretel, Archmage Haines, a few necromancers brought over by Archmage Haines, and Linn, working hard inside.
Miss Serrela helps when she is happy to help, and wanders around when she is not happy to help; although Mr. Balensimo works hard to help, his spellcasting level is limited and he can only be used as a second- and third-level mage; Bernard...
Bernard was really useless except for carrying the prisoners, commanding the native soldiers to guard the prisoners of war, and commanding the native slaves to deliver meals to the prisoners of war.
Besides, the most important work of analyzing and researching data still requires Gretl to do it himself.
"Subject No. 1, body temperature is normal!"
"Subject No. 2, body temperature is normal!"
"...Subject No. 13, the body temperature is high! - Someone, give him a mercury thermometer, tell him to hold it under his tongue and shut up for three minutes... Archmage Heins, why don't you a skeleton?
He can talk!"
"I can speak, but I'm still researching how to add [Spell of Glossary] to it so that it can speak words that the other party can understand... Forget it, I'll work harder and throw a [Proficiency] to the native.
Language] bar!"
Linn put down the record book in his hand and glanced at Gretel silently. Gretel, your demands are too high!
I used to think that his golden skeleton was very fragrant, could do housework, cook, had fighting ability, and could even pick up the skin of Mr. Trocca's neck, so I longed to get one;
Later, there was Onekin,
Being able to help with surgeries and incisions, the Golden Skeleton will immediately become distasteful. You don't even expect O'Niejin to help with cooking, sweeping the floor, and washing clothes;
Now, you actually dislike the skeleton of an 18th-level archmage and can’t speak the indigenous language!
――Skeletons can talk very well, okay? Your O'Nealkin can only touch his upper teeth against his lower teeth and make a lot of "Grrrrrrr" sounds!
"...Today's statistical results show that there are three groups, 13 people with elevated body temperatures and suspected symptoms of yellow fever. One group is the mosquito group; the other is the blood injection group..."
Gretel went through today's data one by one, turned on the spell, and looked at all the patients one by one. In addition to [Fortune Observation Technique], the God of Nature's magic also has similar methods, and it can even be seen more clearly than [Fortune Observation Technique].
meticulous:
You can tell at a glance who is in good health, who is sick, who is starting to get sick, and who is seriously ill. The important thing is that you don’t need to listen to your heartbeat, take your temperature, or even enter the door. You can quickly check it through the window.
If there is a problem, pick it up and examine it carefully.
Indeed, as he expected, those subjects who lived with yellow fever patients across a railing and put mosquitoes in the railings developed symptoms of yellow fever, either mild or severe;
Some of the subjects who lived alone and set up mosquito-isolating arrays but were injected with the blood of yellow fever patients developed symptoms: mainly those patients who had just become ill. After the illness was relieved and when they started vomiting blood, the probability of symptoms was different.
big;
Those subjects who lived in a room full of vomit from yellow fever patients, but who set up a magic circle to isolate mosquitoes, had been living there for two weeks, and everyone was alive and well, and no one had any problems;
Those who take personal care of yellow fever patients and have close contact with them... uh...
"Why are there three sick people?"
Grete scratched his head. Could it be that besides insect vectors, could this crap thing be spread in other ways?
If droplets can also be transmitted, and it can also be transmitted through the digestive tract, this will be a big trouble!
"Go and have a look!"
Grete frowned, and walked to the isolation ward according to the room number on the record book. He dispersed the mosquitoes and flies, opened the door, closed the door, and dispersed the mosquitoes and flies again. Stepping into the first isolation ward, Grete scanned around.
Covering his forehead:
"I asked you to take care of him, why did you beat him?"
The indigenous warrior lying on the ground had a bruised nose and swollen face, and there were blood marks everywhere on his face, arms, and body. Correspondingly, the Brolin warrior who was locked up with him also had his arms scratched one by one...
There was even a deep tooth mark on the left shoulder, the flesh was rolled up, and blood oozed out. Gretel went over and took a look at the indigenous warrior. Yes, there were obvious symptoms of bleeding gums.
If he is handcuffed to the wall like this and still has the strength to fight back, should we say that the natives are physically strong, or should we say that this soldier's symptoms are not very severe, or should we say that rabbits can bite when pushed hard?
"He killed my comrade! Two of the three men in my team died in his hands!" Soldier Brolin said with hatred, his face twisted, and when he touched the wound on his face, he couldn't help but "hiss".
Grete let out a long sigh:
Okay, the mystery of this group has been solved. If you are scratched by a monkey with yellow fever, you will be infected with yellow fever. If you are bitten by a person with yellow fever, you will also be infected with yellow fever...
"Change his room and don't let them stay together." Gretel sighed and came to the second problematic ward. This time, he stepped into the ward and turned around and left:
"Drag that guy out too! It's true, after three years on the ship, even the most beautiful sheep will have beautiful features!"
"Why do you see the sheep's beautiful features?" Cerela, who was following Gretel and was pushed out before she could see the room clearly, asked curiously. Gretel was speechless, stared, and turned around:
"Uh... Serira, a good girl doesn't need to know this..."
"But I'm not a human girl! Just tell me! Tell me, tell me!"
"This...that...Serila, you have been on the boat for three years and have nothing else to eat except fish. When you see the first sheep, will you want to eat it?"
Alas, doing epidemiological research is really difficult. When I was studying in my previous life, the research methods taught in "Epidemiology", such as etiological inference, causal logic, design and implementation, bias and control...
I did it once, and when my head was smoking and my back was sweating, I realized how difficult it is to do research and how great the previous researchers were. Thank God, for his level, he did not follow the academic route in his previous life.
I took the clinical route...
In short, after a series of accidents and ruling out a series of unrelated causes, Gretel finally proved the spread of yellow fever. Very good, it is basically related to blood and is transmitted through mosquito bites.
Of course, if you were scratched or bitten by the patient during the illness, or did something you shouldn't have done and thus had blood contact, then... you deserve it...
Grete took a breath and solemnly wrote his first paper on tropical infectious diseases. At the end of the paper, he also made a rant:
"Given that there are many types of mosquitoes in the world, perhaps not every mosquito can transmit yellow fever. However, in order to ensure the health and safety of adventurers, we solemnly recommend that all mosquitoes be driven away...
"
Well, figuring out the mode of infection is the first step. Their ultimate goal is to figure out prevention and treatment.
So, how to prevent and cure this crappy thing?
The easiest way is to carry a mosquito repellent with you www.uukanshu.com
Equipment. Bracelet, or pendant, or headband, or belt, or cloak——
This kind of magic equipment does not need to be developed by Gretel. The Congress already has it. However, it was not widely used and the sales volume was not high, causing the product price to remain high:
A cloak or belt, which has a single function, starts at 2,000 gold coins; a headband, bracelet, or pendant, because it is relatively small, starts at 3,000 gold coins...
Only magicians who are spoiled and hate mosquitoes will buy this kind of equipment. As for ordinary warriors and ordinary adventurers:
With two to three thousand gold coins, who would tie their head to the waistband and go out on adventures?! Wouldn't it be nice to smoke it up with some smoke, or apply some grass juice on it to reduce mosquito bites?
The problem is that smoke is easy to use at the campsite, but it cannot protect the whole body during outdoor activities. Even if you apply grass juice on your arms, legs, and exposed skin, you won't be able to use the toilet in the wild?
Walking through mountains and rivers, sweating, will the grass juice not be washed away?
This can only reduce the probability of mosquito bites from 100 bites per day to 10 bites per day.
What Grete has to do is to reduce the probability from 10 bites a day to not taking one bite at all; or, even if he takes 100 bites, he will not be infected with yellow fever...
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