Two hundred and fifty-seventh chapter plague war (3)
Lai Xiao's escape did not cause many ripples...
Updated the fastest. In order to avoid trouble, the escort wrote: "One person committed suicide by jumping into the river." So Lai Xiao was crossed out from the "list of contacts" and noted: "Death from other causes."
More than a hundred people died due to various reasons during the process of sheltering beggars and refugees. One more or one less would not attract anyone's attention.
Lin Motian was already exhausted at this time, and naturally he didn't care about the life and death of Lai Xiao. He was busy training epidemic prevention personnel, and held meetings with the chief of security and the police, asking them to pay attention to the patients, corpses and dead people in their respective areas.
.For all deceased persons, the epidemic prevention inspector must arrive at the scene to fill out a death certificate before proceeding with funeral arrangements.
A large number of printed posters are posted everywhere, asking residents to clean up garbage in time and carry out anti-rat campaigns. Dead rats found must be collected in designated baskets and collected by designated personnel. They must not be discarded at will.
"I want each person to hand over a dead mouse for each slice, and I will do slice culture." Lin Motian said, "First find out where the source of the plague is."
"Isn't it a mouse?" Mu Min was already drafting a document to apply for 20,000 mouse traps from Lingao. She was preparing to distribute them to every Baojia inside and outside the city.
"There has been no major plague outbreak in Guangzhou in the past. It is unlikely that rats carry Yersinia pestis. The most likely reason is that they were brought in from the fur trade." Lin Motian said, "So I will first dissect and culture all the bacteria in the city.
Take slices of mice to see if there is Yersinia pestis in their bodies. Only in this way can the source of infection be determined."
"Then my mousetrap..."
"It's better to apply. Rat eradication is always a good thing for environmental health." Lin Motian said, "Rodent eradication is only one of them. By eradicating rats, fleas can also be eliminated."
Because bubonic plague is mainly spread by fleas. Therefore, killing fleas is an important means to cut off the spread of plague. Fleas are almost everywhere in this time and space. The environment where humans and animals live together, poor living conditions, and very few bathing facilities...
As a result, the flea infection rate is extremely high, and even middle-class and even wealthy people in cities are also infected with fleas.
However, the Senate does not have highly effective flea killers like DDT and 666. Due to the huge population base, it cannot "purify" the way refugees are treated on Hainan Island. The only thing it can supply is a small amount of pyrethrins, which is completely unable to do what it used to do back then.
The US military sprayed DDT throughout the city of Naples.
"If you have conditions, do it if there are no conditions." Lin Motian said, "When Wu Liande went to the Northeast for epidemic prevention, he was empty-handed like us, there was no DDT or antibiotics, and it was even more difficult to take a bath in the Northeast. It all relied on
The organization was effective and the plague was contained through quarantine."
The establishment of an isolation zone on Cheung Chau Island was only the first step. Next, Lin Motian ordered the suspension of all fur trades. The ships carrying furs and the warehouses storing furs were closed, and all contacts were sent to the quarantine area for isolation and observation.
"Shopkeeper, the face wash is ready!"
Xiaosi, a clerk from Xingfushan Goods Store, stood at the door of the shopkeeper's room, shouting loudly, but he was muttering in his heart. The shopkeeper gets up early all year round. According to the popular "Australian clock", no matter in winter or summer, five o'clock
Get up now. Just like the other guys.
But now it’s three strokes a day, and there’s no movement in the room, let alone the shopkeeper getting up. This is a bit strange. It doesn’t matter if he can’t get up. Shopkeeper Liu, whom he invited to discuss business, is here, so he can’t let anyone
Just wait!
The waiters at the counter gathered together and asked the waiter, who had just completed his apprenticeship, to "please" him. If the shopkeeper was offended, this bastard would be responsible for it.
Of course, Xiaosi was not qualified to say "no". In fact, he was feeling very uncomfortable today, with a sore throat and a feverish feeling, but he didn't dare to say that he was "sick" casually. Now he called outside the door.
Several times, but there was no movement inside. Xiaosi had no choice but to push the door open and there was no latch. He looked around and saw that the shopkeeper was still lying on the bed. He called several times, but still there was no movement.
"Is he sick?" Xiaosi thought about it and went over to take a look. He was suddenly frightened, rolled and crawled out of the door and ran away, shouting: "It's not good! The shopkeeper is dead!"
Lin Motian, wearing a thick Wu Liande-style mask and an isolation gown, looked at the corpse that had just been delivered to the "isolation morgue" of the Henan Island Chemical Plant: the skin had ecchymosis, swelling, suppuration, and ulceration.
The lymph nodes... all indicated that this was a person who died of bubonic plague. He carefully took several tissue and body fluid samples from the corpse for culture and observation before making a final diagnosis.
If the diagnosis is correct, then this plague war has officially begun. Lin Motian only felt his heart heavy.
"What to do with the corpse? Do we need to do an autopsy?" Su Wan asked.
"No need, treat it like the beggar's body, take it directly for cremation." Lin Motian breathed out into his mask, "You have to keep an eye on them, the body itself is the source of infection. Throw everything used here in and burn it."
Lose."
Su Wan nodded: "I understand."
The clerks at Xingfushan Goods Store were all quarantined on the spot. However, the quarantine officer soon discovered that one of the clerks was in line with the No. 1 disease in the manual. Lin Motian received the report and rushed to take a look.
He was already suffering from a high fever and the onset of the disease was rapid.
It was no accident that two patients appeared in a mountain goods store at the same time. After Lin Motian inquired, he found out that this mountain goods store had indeed been engaged in fur goods business recently. A batch of otter fur goods had just been imported from Liaodong not long ago.
The sun is hot in summer, so dry it in the yard to prevent mildew.
"Where are the leather goods now?"
"They are all in the library. Originally, Shopkeeper Huang came to the store today to discuss this matter." The waiter who was summoned looked at the "chief" with a thick mask on his face and a white coat. He was secretly frightened, thinking that this was a big deal.
Is there any important figure in Song Dynasty who died? It’s enough to wear white clothes, even the face must be covered. This is a strange custom!
"Which shopkeeper Liu?"
"It's Shopkeeper Liu Deshan Liu from Dongshanju, who specializes in long-distance buying and selling of goods from the north to the south. The leather goods in the shop are bought from him..."
Lin Motian immediately ordered the epidemic prevention brigade to be dispatched to isolate Liu Deshan and everyone he had come into contact with. Not only him, but also everyone who had been to Xingfushan Goods Store in the past few days must be quarantined.
"The quarantined personnel were immediately moved to the quarantine area. The Xingfushan goods store was disinfected and closed, and no one was allowed to enter or exit. The leather goods in stock were sealed and transported to Liuhuaqiao for burning."
He issued a series of orders, and the waiter was dumbfounded and asked: "Chief! What kind of law have you guys broken? The shop never does anything illegal, and they always put the garbage in the basket.
inner……"
"The epidemic has been spread in your store!" Lin Motian said coldly, "You'd better ask yourself to be lucky and not be infected."
After saying that, he hurried to find Lin Baiguang and asked him to immediately arrange for people to blockade Xingfushan Goods Store and Dongshanju.
"Liu Deshan?!" Lin Baiguang asked in shock.
"Yes." Lin Motian was surprised. Could it be that Lin Baiguang knew him?
"He is one of our suppliers," Lin Baiguang said. "He travels between the north and the south all year round, selling goods. I know him because Lianqin bought a large amount of leather from him..."
"Where are these leathers?" Lin Motian was really anxious now. Because Lianqin bought the leather, part of it was shipped to Hong Kong to be made into military supplies, and part of it was shipped directly back to Lingao to be processed into industrial and civilian products. It has a wide range of uses.
If fleas carrying Yersinia pestis are mixed in the skin and spread in Hong Kong, Lingao or the South China Army, the consequences will be disastrous!
"The latest ones have all been shipped to Hong Kong. It has been more than a month..." Lin Baiguang is coordinating all aspects of relations in Guangzhou and knows everything. "According to your nine-day incubation period theory, if there is a problem with Hong Kong's munitions factories and logistics centers
It should have exploded long ago."
"That's good." Lin Motian felt like he was breaking out in a cold sweat, "Even so, his property must be closed and disinfected."
"His property is simple, with only a dock warehouse and the Dongshanju cargo ship. This ship was built by our Hong Kong shipyard."
Starting from the closure of Xingfushan Goods Store, the entire epidemic prevention and isolation measures in Guangzhou officially began.
Not long after Liu Deshan returned home, his home was surrounded by the epidemic prevention team. Before he could figure out what was going on, the whole family, including the servants, were taken out and declared "quarantine."
He himself was brought to Lin Motian.
"Have you ever sold skins from Liaodong to Guangzhou recently?"
"Yes! Yes!" Liu Deshan muttered in his heart. He was selling skins under the instructions of Elder Hong, and there was nothing illegal. "I got the skins from Lushun, and I also got some from Tianjin Wei."
He originally wanted to say that it was Elder Hong's wish that he did not engage in the leather business. But when he thought about it again, there was no guarantee that there was some grudge between the two elders. He just said it casually and offended both parties. So he changed his mind and said:
"Don't the chiefs need to buy leather?"
Lin Motian asked again: "Did I buy the Xingfu's otter skin from you?"
Liu Deshan's heart skipped a beat. He remembered that the Australians had issued a notice, and people from the Federation of Industry and Commerce had also said during a meeting that fur goods coming in from the north were not allowed to be sold privately, and must all be sold to Australians. The Xingfu had its own channels to go abroad.
, the otter skins and mink skins obtained from Liaodong were sold to the red-haired people, and the profit was more than ten times the profit. The shopkeeper knew that he was going to the north to sell fur goods, and repeatedly asked him to bring private goods. Liu Deshan was greedy for the benefits, so he
I sold a lot of goods to him privately.
The elder opened his mouth to ask. It was obvious that he couldn't deny it, so he could only say: "It's just a small item."
"The Senate has repeatedly issued orders that leather goods are goods controlled by the Senate and are not allowed to be bought or sold privately! You are so brave!" Lin Motian couldn't bear it anymore and slapped the table and scolded.