While Zhou Yang and others were busy with their big goals, the entire Saibei Province was in panic because of hemorrhagic fever!
Almost two days have passed since I received the emergency call from Yunshan County late at night.
According to the situation summarized from various places, the situation is very bad.
At present, more than 1,200 hemorrhagic fever patients have been diagnosed in Qingcheng urban area alone, including more than 200 severe patients.
As a result, almost all major hospitals in Qingcheng are filled with patients with hemorrhagic fever, and even the corridors of some hospitals are filled with patients.
And this is still Qingcheng. Ning City and other places with poor medical conditions are in even more critical condition.
In some places, patients have even died!
What makes the senior officials of Saibei Province even more troublesome is that there are still patients being diagnosed one after another, and they don’t know when they will end.
Not only Qingcheng, but also nearby Ningshi, Lucheng, Echeng and other places have found patients with hemorrhagic fever. It seems that this terrible infectious disease has suddenly spread throughout Saibei Province.
In just two days, the number of cases reported to the provincial capital in various banners, counties and districts across the province exceeded 4,000, far exceeding the provincial government's expectations.
Provincial experts soon analyzed the reason. In the final analysis, it was caused by the abnormal weather last year.
Last year, the entire central part of Saibei Province suffered from an extremely severe drought, which resulted in widespread grain failure and even withered crops in many places.
This leaves people with nothing to eat and rats with nothing to eat!
Rats with nothing to eat can only run to places with people. As a result, wild rats, yellow squirrels and other rats that should stay in the wild have appeared in villages and cities.
The purpose of rats arriving in residential areas is to survive, and they begin to crazily eat all the food stored in people's homes.
Since there was nothing to eat, the people did not want to throw away the food even though they knew it had been eaten by rats. This caused the hemorrhagic fever to spread in Saibei Province in a short period of time.
Although it has been proven that the treatment methods presented in Yunshan County are indeed effective, especially for those with mild symptoms, their condition can almost be controlled by taking medicine.
However, for some severely ill patients, the cure rate is still not 100%.
In fact, Zhou Yang has already mentioned in the plan that according to his method, the mortality rate can be reduced to about 3% at most. Anything more will depend on luck.
Judging from the current situation, Saibei Province's luck is not particularly good, with news of deaths of critically ill patients coming from major hospitals.
Just when the provincial leaders were at a loss, support forces led by Liu Jimin, Wang Yuanhua and others arrived.
They have already learned the detailed situation in Yunshan County, where hemorrhagic fever was first discovered.
And I also talked with Zhou Yang, so after arriving in the provincial capital, I didn't hesitate and immediately started to guide the work.
Liu Jimin and others followed the method they learned in Yunshan County and centralized all hemorrhagic fever patients for unified treatment. They also suggested that the Saibei Provincial Government launch a nationwide rodent eradication campaign.
Originally, Director Yun, An Bangguo and others were hesitant about Zhou Yang's suggestion of nationwide rat eradication. After all, it was somewhat absurd to shut down all factories and schools in the province just to eradicate rats.
Even during the large-scale extermination of the Four Pests during the Frontline Year, everyone only took their free time. How could this be done before?
But now experts from Beijing also say that this is possible, so they have seriously considered this issue.
After some deliberation, the superiors finally decided to carry out nationwide rat eradication in accordance with the suggestions of Liu Jimin and others!
Soon, the province issued an administrative order to all league cities, banner counties and districts, requiring all localities to immediately organize workers, farmers, students and other strata to carry out nationwide rodent eradication operations. The funds required for rodent eradication were borne by the government.
Following the issuance of this order, a vigorous rodent eradication operation was launched throughout Saibei Province!
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After the provincial order was issued, the league cities and banner counties naturally did not dare to neglect and conveyed the order to various township communes and major units.
When the county's latest rodent control order was delivered to the county hospital, Zhou Yang was visiting the sick commune members and educated youth in the village.
After seeing this document and knowing that it was issued from the province, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Although rodent eradication cannot fundamentally solve hemorrhagic fever, it can significantly reduce the incidence of hemorrhagic fever and buy time for vaccine development.
What Zhou Yang is most worried about is that the province will not carry out a comprehensive rodent eradication campaign in consideration of the impact, which will lead to a continued increase in hemorrhagic fever patients.
But now it seems okay, the provincial order was issued in a timely manner.
In addition, the conditions of several patients in the village were stabilized, and even the dying Lao Zhangtou had his fever gone, which made Zhou Yang feel a lot better.
Considering that the condition of Li Jianjun and others was not very serious, and the beds in the county hospital were really tight, after some discussion, Zhou Yang decided to take Li Jianjun and others back to the village for treatment.
In fact, for people like them, they just need to go back and inject some fluids and rest more.
As a result, under Zhou Yang's arrangement, all 14 mild patients in the village were taken back to the village, leaving only 6 educated youth members who were relatively seriously ill and were still in the hospital.
And as these villagers returned to the village one after another, the haze that had previously enveloped the villagers disappeared in an instant.
Soon, the villagers' attitude towards rodent control also changed!
It's not that the enthusiasm has decreased, but it has improved a lot.
In the past, rodents were exterminated to save lives, but now the disease doesn't seem so scary.
Coupled with the county's decision to reward rat tails in exchange for food, rat eradication has become a way for villagers to generate income.
Especially after the news came out that Feng Liujin used a homemade trap to catch 165 rats in one night and exchanged for 33 catties of grain, the enthusiasm of all the educated youth members was completely ignited.
Many people don't care about going to and from work at all. Whenever they have time, they go into the fields, warehouses and broken houses in small groups, just to catch mice.
At the same time, everyone also studied the methods of rodent control and summarized a lot of successful experience.
Especially to deal with rats in the wild, members will use methods such as water irrigation, digging, and smoking.
Naturally, the simplest method of water irrigation is used to control rats in areas close to water sources. If the area is far away from water sources and the soil is relatively soft, then dig with a shovel.
If it is the kind of stone ground that is inconvenient to dig, then use smoke instead, dig a hole slightly, and use a handful of wet firewood. No matter how cunning a mouse is, it will be impossible to stay in the hole.
If a little sulfur, saltpeter and sawdust are added to the fire, the effect will be better.
And under such circumstances, the rats in the village suffered a disaster, and they were "annihilated" one after another. What a misfortune!
In addition, the village uses biological feed in the fermentation tank as bait, and a large number of mouse traps and traps are arranged every day. In just a few days, tens of thousands of rats in Babaoliang Village were killed.
These mice not only provided Duan Yinzhong and others with sufficient experimental subjects, but also brought back a large amount of food to the village. An infectious disease crisis was turned into a sideline business to generate income for the villagers.
This was something Zhou Yang had not expected. Seeing this situation, even a serious person like him felt a sense of inexplicable joy!
At this moment, news came from the engineering team - the main project was completed!
pS: Chapter 3 is delivered!
