Not long after, Wu Youke came out with a group of doctors.

These people were wearing long black boots, white high-necked tight jackets, and the jacket was specially made by the Royal Weaving Bureau. The silk thread was extremely thin and airtight. The mouth and nose were wrapped in facial scarves, and the white hats were worn on their heads. Each of them wore a pair of white-handed gloves, like a warrior fighting with the god of death, giving people a sense of solemnity.

Then, a white four-wheeled carriage drove over. As soon as the group of doctors entered the carriage, the carriage suddenly whistled and left the Royal First Hospital at a very fast speed.

When officials and civilians heard the sound of the whistle, they knew that the critically ill person was going to be rescued, so they consciously made a way out.

At the same time, Zhang Yao, the former magistrate of the Ministry of Health who was still staying in the Royal First Hospital, immediately ordered: "Take out the high-power microscope immediately and open the isolation laboratory. Within ten meters, no one is allowed to approach unless you are subordinate to me!"

As he said that, Zhang Yao hurriedly put on the protective suits that Wu Youke were wearing the same clothes as Wu Youke and ran to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty also asks you to return to the palace quickly. This is a place where evil spirits are concentrated. If you pass the disease and the body of your Majesty, you will be unable to escape the blame even if you die a hundred times."

Zhu Youxiao knew that he would hinder others' work here, so he nodded and said, "Okay, Wang Cheng'en, the matter of the Royal Academy of Engineering was postponed and shelved. Return to the palace first and immediately summoned the cabinet and the officials of the six ministries and the censors of the ministry to the West Warm Pavilion to discuss matters!"

When Zhang Yao saw that Emperor Zhu Youxiao left, he immediately entered the isolation laboratory. The high-power microscope had been placed on the laboratory table. The petri dishes and glass test tubes boiled in boiling water were also ready, and lime was sprinkled around him.

Not long after, a doctor rushed in under the escort of several soldiers with live ammunition: "The bacteria are delivered!"

When he heard this, all the medical staff of the Royal First Hospital made their debut like a great enemy.

The doctor sent a small porcelain vase with Zhang Yao and was sent to the observation room next to him for isolation and observation. After three hours, he had to leave if there was no fever or diarrhea.

After Zhang Yao took the small porcelain bottle, he immediately entered the laboratory, and then the iron door as thick as one foot was directly closed.

Only Zhang Yao applied a patient's diarrhea to the slide, added Gram dye solution one after another, dried it with an alcohol lamp, and then placed it on a high-power microscope to observe carefully.

About two quarters of an hour later, Zhang Yao ordered: "Immediately, it is not plague bacteria, but Vibrio cholerae. Report to the court and enter the first-level epidemic prevention state!"

As he said that, Zhang Yao took off the mask, put all the specimens into a glass jar, added lime and stirred quickly, and then threw them into the brazier.

Although he was sweating profusely, he could not go out yet. He could only enter another confined space honestly and ordered the outside world through a message tube connected by a line: "Transfer the message to Shuntian Mansion. The pathogen has been confirmed. The infected person needs to be confined, and those with contact with the infected person must be isolated. If there are dead people, they cannot be buried in a hurry, and they must be handled in accordance with the epidemic prevention regulations of the Ministry of Health!"

A person outside responded and ran out immediately.

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At this time, the cabinet ministers and ministers of the Ministry were also summoned by Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao did not beat around the bush and spoke directly: "It is reported that the plague in Shanxi may have spread to the capital. The epidemic has always been a matter of not being underestimated. At the smallest, thousands of people died, and at the largeest, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people died. Therefore, summoning your dear ministers to come to make a temporary countermeasure against the outbreak of the epidemic."

As Zhu Youxiao said, Wang Chengen hurriedly ran in: "Your Majesty, I just got the news from the Royal First Hospital that the epidemic just discovered was not plague but cholera."

"Cholera!" Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but stand up. He didn't expect that this kind of fierce infectious disease would appear at this time, because according to Zhu Youxiao's understanding, the fierce infectious disease of cholera should only appear in India and Bangladesh, that is, the Indian Ocean, but why did it suddenly appear in the suburbs of Beijing?

Zhu Youzhaochun thought that if there was a plague in the Ming Dynasty, it would be nothing more than smallpox and plague. Among them, smallpox is a viral infection, with the strongest predatory nature and the most difficult to eliminate. Fortunately, with the vaccination technology, most of the people in the Ming Dynasty can be successfully immunized. Once people are vaccinated successfully, they will not get this infectious disease again.

Of course, under normal circumstances, this acquired immunity does not permanently immunize the vaccinated person for life, and it will have a certain timeliness for many people.

Because of this, Zhu Youjiao also specially ordered officials from all prefectures and counties to ensure that every newborn baby in his jurisdiction is successfully vaccinated and every unvaccinated person is successfully re-inoculated, and a second vaccination is required regularly.

Therefore, smallpox did not cause a rampant situation in the Ming Dynasty, and the smallpox virus, which should have spread more and more widely over time, began to show signs of disappearance.

As for plague, this infectious disease belonging to bacteria is not less harmful than that of smallpox virus. Fortunately, the biology of the Ming Dynasty has been greatly developed, especially with the improvement of glass manufacturing technology and the manufacture of microscopes, the microbiology of the Ming Dynasty has achieved changes from scratch. Now hundreds of strains can be screened out, and it is mainly used in military and medical treatment.

Such as air-producing bacteria that produce methane and hydrogen sulfide gases, Penicillin-producing strains and their derivative strains.

Although these strains in the Ming Dynasty have not yet changed their genotypes through ultraviolet radiation or chemical methods to cause their gene mutations, thus screening out new strains with stronger secondary metabolic capabilities, they can basically meet the needs of the entire Ming Dynasty.

In other words, the Ming Dynasty cannot use physical and chemical methods to directly create species, but at least it can discover useful species from nature.

Of course, perhaps when the Ming Dynasty can completely use electricity or produce electricity in the future, mercury vapor and high-frequency electric shock can be used to create ultraviolet lights. At that time, it may be possible to improve the Penicillium strain or other strains and produce more types of antibiotics.

You should know that the secondary metabolite of the Penicillium strain, Penicillium strain, has only antibacterial effects but does not have bactericidal effects. I think that the pathogens in the entire human body have not yet been tolerated with this antibacterial effect, so that only one unit of penicillin can survive a serious bacterial infection. If it is time to go by, with the emergence of new drug-resistant pathogens, it will probably pose greater challenges to the medical students of the Ming Dynasty.

If it is a plague, Zhu Youxiao can also reduce the source of infection and connect the plague epidemic in Changzhi, Shanxi, and expand the epidemic control area, but now it is cholera, which shows that with the development of maritime trade and the introduction of a large number of pets or other animals they bring, new pathogens have appeared in the Ming Dynasty.

Anyone in the Ming Dynasty is unfamiliar with this new pathogen and has no immune memory cells. That is to say, although the fierce contagion of Vibrio cholerae is not as good as the plague, the immune system of the people of Daming is unfamiliar with this new pathogen will cause large-scale transmission.

This is also an inevitable disadvantage after the opening of the sea. It will not only bring wealth and foreign culture to the Ming Dynasty, but also bring biological invasion and ecological system damage to the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youxiao even regrets that he should have asked the customs to establish a quarantine bureau as soon as possible. Of course, this kind of thing cannot be avoided sometimes.

"I passed my will. Foreigners from all over the country who have arrived in the Ming Dynasty recently are not allowed to leave their current location, and officials from all over the country immediately control their freedom of life. Those who do not have obvious diarrhea or fever symptoms will be allowed to move freely, especially in the capital. Not only foreigners and others are not allowed to leave the city, but those who do not have obvious symptoms will be allowed to be released after three days!"

As soon as the school's decree was announced, Zhu Youchao immediately ordered Yang Sichang, who was admiring the Beijing camp, to mobilize the Beijing camp to assist Shuntian Prefecture in handling the matter. At the same time, he ordered the Ministry of Works to immediately go to the location of the epidemic to build a simple isolation area.

The large number of Chinese herbal medicines with antibacterial effects stockpiled in the past year were immediately distributed, and the fermentation production workshop of Royal Industrial Corporation was also required to add fermentation tanks for penicillin fermentation production.

Fortunately, due to the outbreak of the plague in Shanxi, Royal Industrial Company has prepared a fermentation tank that can be put into production at any time. However, despite this, it is impossible to produce a large amount of penicillin in the early stage. After all, the strains have to undergo an adaptation period and rapid growth period in a new culture medium. Only after the rapid growth period is over, a large number of mature strains will undergo secondary metabolism. What's more, the current fermentation technology of Daming does not have constant temperature automatic control and computer monitoring at any time, so it is quite difficult to cultivate bacteria.

But there is also one thing that is fortunate that the fermentation technology of the Ming Dynasty has mastered the factors that affect secondary metabolic capacity such as the optimal carbon-nitrogen ratio summarized by generations in later generations.

In other words, in the early stage, we can only use the method of cutting off the source of transmission and transmission channels to curb the spread of cholera, which of course is also the most effective method.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty did not need Wu to detect the response method of the plague after a large outbreak of the epidemic, so it can quickly use administrative means to cut off the source of infection and transmission channels.

The method of cutting off the source of infection is naturally to isolate the patient and separate the patient from the person who is disconnected. This link can almost eliminate most pathogens and not rush to other organisms.

Of course, sometimes there are fish that are missing the net, or some people with special genes have natural immune effects or their autoimmune ability is indeed too strong, which causes them to be carriers of pathogens for a long time without any symptoms.

The Ming Dynasty cannot use medical tests to detect antibody labeling of pathogen contacts through biochemical indicators, so it is impossible to find these carriers, so the second link is to cut off the transmission route.

Although Vibrio cholerae is a new pathogen, its properties and characteristics have been mastered by the medical community of the Ming Dynasty, so it is easy to control its transmission path.

As a strong infectious bacteria in the digestive tract, Vibrio cholerae is naturally not transmitted by air but by human excrement, food and water. Therefore, the entire capital has also begun a large-scale rational disinfection work. Fortunately, urban management has been improved, and human and animal excrement has been unified. Now it is not difficult to sprinkle lime on uniformly for strict disinfection.

Food and water have also been strictly managed. Zhu Youxiao personally issued an imperial edict ordering everyone in the capital to not eat any raw food or drink any raw water within half a month. All food and water must be cooked at high temperature.

Of course, this has caused panic in the capital. Because the transmission of the imperial edict has caused many people to believe that the food is unclean, which has caused the income of a large number of restaurants to drop sharply or even went bankrupt directly. The prices of various foods have also declined seriously, resulting in a large amount of food being unsalable.

As a result, the tax revenue of the court also dropped sharply, and the revenue of the Royal Bank also showed a downward trend.

But at the same time, the prices of various drugs began to soar. In this era when antibiotics were only a small amount or a large amount of them were still treated with Chinese herbal medicines, the frequency of various magical drugs was even higher. What's more, after the Ming Dynasty had unprecedentedly developed media communication capabilities, when a famous imperial physician said that Aquata, Pinellia, Poria, etc. were extremely effective or had strong preventive effects on such cholera, a large number of people immediately went to buy such medicinal materials in large quantities.

For a time, various "Chinese magic medicines" appeared in newspapers and magazines, which also caused the prices of many ordinary Chinese medicinal materials with lower costs to soar, and many even directly exceeded the prices of precious medicinal materials such as ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, and Panax notoginseng.

Of course, there are many people who take this opportunity to hoard goods. Many people take out a lot of savings to buy medicinal materials. The simple mind may be to buy medicinal materials to survive, and the mentality may be to take advantage of this to make a fortune. In short, the savings of Royal Bank have begun to run out.

Before Vibrio cholerae began to sway the economic foundation of the entire capital and even the entire Ming Dynasty.

"Appoint Sun Chuanting as the governor of Shanxi, to supervise Shanxi military affairs, and to strictly prevent the spread of the plague in Changzhi, Shanxi. Zhang Yao ordered to go to Shanxi immediately to assist Sun Chuanting, telling Sun Chuanting to directly crack down on Shanxi merchants who intend to stockpile medicinal materials, and to eliminate the plague in the area, so as not to spread to the capital, making the capital even more panic!"

As he said that, Zhu Youxiao ordered: "In the capital, the Dongchang secretly investigated, who asked me to use this to hoard medicinal materials, and at the same time ordered the Imperial Pharmacy to sell the medicinal materials they have been housed in previous years at normal prices. It is necessary to curb this unhealthy trend. At the same time, the Royal Industrial Company further reduced the price of newly produced drugs, and the loss and profits are filled by the treasury. If the treasury is not enough, I will pay the treasury to fill it. In short, we cannot directly drag down the economy of the Ming Dynasty just because of a small amount of cholera!"

At this time, Zhu Youxiao desperately used his power as an emperor to administratively interfere with the fluctuations in the entire market caused by cholera, and tried his best to minimize the economic losses of the Ming Dynasty, so as to achieve the goal of overcoming this difficulty as soon as possible, and leave more capital for the future elimination of Lin Dan Khan's tribe and fighting against the Rakshasa Kingdom...
Chapter completed!