Bulgarian Empire

Chapter 15, Unlucky Wilson

Minister of Health Karl-"" Landsteiner reported to Ferdinand wearily: "Your Majesty, this is the latest number of patients we have counted. So far, the total number of patients infected with the influenza virus in Bulgaria has exceeded 30. million, the current death toll is 4,852.

Entering December, the number of flu patients has been greatly reduced, and many people have returned to normal, but for safety reasons, the cured patients are still in the observation stage and have not returned to society! "

Ferdinand nodded, this number is not bad, for other countries in the world, this is simply a miracle!

He said with concern: "I'm sorry for you, let's take a break first! Everyone can take a breather this winter, this season is not conducive to the spread of the virus, and there will be tough battles to be fought in the spring of next year!"

Karl Landsteiner replied feebly: "Yes!"

Apparently the recent epidemic prevention work has busy him too much. Since the epidemic spread to Bulgaria in June, nationwide martial law has begun, and the officials of the Ministry of Health have no time to take leave. Became the busiest presence in Bulgaria!

As a minister, it is natural to lead by example. Carl Landsteiner also experienced the feeling of being in power. It was okay at the beginning, but then it was a tragedy. That incident really broke people.

(Remarks: Bulgaria's ministries are also of different grades, for example: the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of the Navy, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and other real power departments are higher, and the minister can be called a certain minister.

As for the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Culture, the grades are half a level lower, and the minister is a certain minister. This is also a common unspoken rule. )

Looking at the exhausted Minister of Health, Ferdinand is also very helpless. Everyone has no experience in epidemic prevention for the first time, and many things require their high-level decision-making. This kind of thing can't be done for you!

Only professionals from the Ministry of Health can make decisions, and other departments of the cabinet government can only assist from the sidelines. If there is any problem, let them make a decision, and the Ministry of Health will naturally be busy!

By the way, most of the officials in the Ministry of Health are semi-bureaucrats, which does not mean that half of them are bureaucrats!

In fact, all officials of the Ministry of Health can work part-time as medical staff or drug developers. In addition to temporarily working in the Ministry of Health, many of them have other jobs, and they are all in the medical field.

This is also caused by the unique national conditions. At the beginning of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, there was a shortage of medical personnel. If the Ministry of Health did not use professionals, then this department would be abolished. So at that time, everyone chose the art of temporary employment very realistically!

Then in the hands of Ferdinand, he was promoted again. The whole country is short of medical staff, and he can't grab the limited medical resources of the people. Anyway, the Ministry of Health doesn't have many things, so it has continued until now.

Of course, it is not without changes. He also added a Food Safety Administration under the Ministry of Health, which is responsible for inspecting food safety across the country.

It's just that compared with strict food safety, the control on medicines is not so strict. It is just to crack down on counterfeit medicines and sell counterfeit medicines. In this era, medicines have serious side effects, and there is no way to control them!

As long as it is useful, it is better not to investigate the side effects, otherwise there will be no medicines on the market, and the price of medicines with little or no side effects is really unaffordable, at least the middle class can’t afford it!

If you think about the fact that during the World War, all the major belligerent countries dared to include drugs in their logistics supplies, you know how high everyone's standards are in this era!

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Compared with Bulgaria, which has completely controlled the epidemic, other countries are miserable. Europe and the United States are better off, and everyone's medical technology is not bad, basically limiting the death rate.

Even so, there are still a lot of deaths. As of 1918, the preliminary statistics of the number of deaths in various countries are as follows:

United States: 512,000

United Kingdom: 200,000 people (just including England and Wales),

The British Isles have a total of 326,000

France: 293,000

Germany: 388,000

Italy: 378,000

Spain: 168,000

Belgium: 43,000

Portugal: 41,000

Netherlands: 35,000

Denmark: 28,000

Sweden: 42,000

Switzerland: 32,000

Norway: 18,000

Russia: 560,000

Austria-Hungary: 312,000

The above figures are guessed by Bulgaria itself. The accuracy is estimated to be 70% to 80%. The specific death toll may not be clear to the officials of various countries.

After all, deaths from influenza are mixed with deaths from other diseases. Who can tell the difference? And out of the needs of political interests, everyone must also lower the death toll, so the official death toll announced by various countries is much lower!

If you calculate the number of deaths in the colonies, this number is very scary. The Everbright Commonwealth is the owner of 20000000+, and it may even be 30000000+. There are no specific death statistics.

Even if there was an epidemic in most areas, no one dealt with it. The colonial government chose to sit back and watch the natives die tacitly. Anyway, they don’t know how to prevent the epidemic. Naturally there will be more!

Ferdinand didn't know about other places. Anyway, the population of Bulgaria's colonies dropped by nearly 20% in 1918, and at least five million people died in this flu!

This is all caused by ignorance and ignorance. When an epidemic occurs, you don’t know how to seek medical advice, but instead worship gods; after a large number of patients die, you don’t know how to dispose of the corpses quickly, and dance around the corpses one by one. It’s no wonder the mortality rate is low Woolen cloth?

Due to the large number of deaths in the colony, in order not to cause a larger-scale plague, the colonial government had to take action to clean up the corpses.

At this time, the superiority of sending the plane to the company was reflected. For safety reasons, everyone finally decided to send the plane unanimously, as long as the crew dropped Molotov cocktails from the sky to the ground.

Surrendering the Molotov cocktails directly to a village with too many deaths, I don’t know if it will cause accidental injuries. Anyway, no one dares to go to the field to investigate now, and burn it clean!

The consequences are also very obvious. After the epidemic is over, there will be no more indigenous villages in the plains. They don't even know that the fire that fell from the sky was caused by the colonial garrison. Many people think it is the punishment of the gods and dare not In the original place of residence!

When Ferdinand knew the result, the fire had already been let go. Since it was born in autumn, it is unknown how many forests also disappeared in the fire. Ferdinand was so angry that he directly ordered to reprimand the group spendthrift!

Then there is no more, these are all fires from the sky, and have nothing to do with Bulgaria, so naturally everyone does not need to take responsibility for it!

When everyone was celebrating for the rest of their lives, the Bulgarian Ministry of Health once again issued a disease warning, claiming that biologically speaking, spring is the peak period of virus breeding, and the epidemic prevention work in 1919 still cannot be ignored!

This time the influence is much greater. No one dares not believe it. The governments of all countries have learned how to do it. I don’t know how to do it. Let’s learn from the head office according to Bulgaria’s epidemic prevention work?

In line with the principle of no fault is merit, countries continue to maintain a high level of vigilance. Although the virus has been lurking inside them, it is impossible to prevent it, but the wave of the epidemic in spring is less lethal, so politicians have announced that human beings have returned. Overcome the disease once and for all!

Everyone is promoting the efforts of their own government in this epidemic prevention work. After everyone's unremitting efforts, they finally killed the "American flu"!

Well, this time there is no Spaniard to take the blame. Historically, the Spanish media first started reporting, and then someone put the shit pot on their heads, and Spain called it the "French flu"!

Now there is no need to argue, the European media tacitly chose to return the property to the original owner. Since the epidemic first occurred in the United States, it is naturally a major flu in the United States!

Even when tracing the cause of the virus, some people claimed that there was a leak from a chemical plant in Kansas before the outbreak of the flu.

European countries, including Bulgaria, organized a group to protest to the Washington government, demanding that they hand over the murderer and compensate the countries for their losses.

Protests in this era are not simple diplomatic protests. The League of Nations directly convened a Human Security Conference to discuss the issue of forming a joint fleet. All countries have the intention of going to war against the Americans!

Well, these are just appearances. After such a big event, the governments of various countries did not do enough to prevent the epidemic at the beginning, and they were criticized by domestic public opinion. Now some people say that the flu was artificially made by the United States. Is this okay?

Does it matter if it's true or not? For politicians, as long as they can divert the public's attention, after all, compared with severely punishing the culprits, the government's work mistakes can only be regarded as trivial!

The sudden blow caused the Wilson government to collapse. Now not only is the US government required to give an account internationally, but the people in the US have also taken to the streets, demanding that the US government severely punish the murderer!

They all believed it, anyway, the yellow mud falling into the crotch is either shit or shit, and it can't be washed off!

The reason is that before the outbreak of the flu, there was indeed a chemical factory leak in Kansas, which also caused the death of nearly a hundred people in the area. It was only more than 100 kilometers away from the military camp where the outbreak first broke out, and the time interval was less than three months. It was still Kansas at that time. Soldiers from the state barracks are in charge of the blocked scene!

This is even more unclear. Don’t expect scientists to come out with useful explanations. Ordinary people don’t understand so much. The flu happened just after the leak in front of the chemical plant. Although it took more than two months, who do you say it’s okay to lie?

If there is no relationship, then why did the epidemic first start in the military barracks in Kansas? Isn't it because they were the first to be exposed to the virus?

What's more, they still suspect that this is because the Americans were researching gas bombs, and as a result, they accidentally leaked, which caused this consequence!

Then Wilson became Alexander. If the ins and outs cannot be explained clearly, the United States will be finished. The angry American people just want their government to fall, but the angry people in the world may make the United States history!

Wilson asked depressedly: "How is Rice's situation? Has the origin of the flu virus been traced?"

Rice's face darkened, and he said in embarrassment: "No, we have already held accountable the chemical plants near Kansas, and they all claimed that they had nothing to do with them, and the Texas plant that produced the chemical leak at the end of 1917 also claimed, That leak was just an accident!

The most troublesome thing is that several high-level employees of the Texas factory have accidents, and the personnel who were on duty after the accident happened to die in the accident!

The current situation is very unfavorable to us. On the surface, this is more like an extermination. We have been unable to confirm what happened inside the chemical plant at that time!

If the outside world insists that we are researching chemical weapons, and the flu was caused by an accident, we have no way to produce effective evidence to prove our innocence! "

Wilson's face sank to the bottom. There is no doubt that this was a conspiracy. He didn't know who it was aimed at at first, but it just happened to encounter this flu, and it became a conspiracy against the United States of America!

Tens of millions of people have died all over the world. As long as the United States cannot prove its innocence, then they will be in big trouble. Don’t think that they will have fewer enemies if they are alone overseas to dominate the Americas. In order to dominate the Americas, they have almost become Public Enemy of Europe!

Especially the British Empire will not let them go. The current flu is the best excuse. If you can't take action as soon as possible to let John Bull connect the European countries, it will be too late!

"Have our scientists come forward to dispel the rumors?" Wilson asked.

Rice said with a wry smile: "The major domestic medical institutions and scientific research centers have explained that they believe that the source of the flu is birds, but this statement is untenable in the scientific community!

Kansas is not the largest bird sanctuary in the world, and even the number of birds is not very large. Scientific research institutions in various European countries have said that chemical plant leaks are the core factor causing this flu!

And they also listed a lot of evidence. The Institute of Biology of the University of Bulgaria pointed out: The flu virus this time is different from the previous ones, and it is different from the viruses that have been found in nature.

Their conjecture is short of saying that it was caused by the leakage of our chemical plant, and it has also been recognized by the mainstream scientific community in Europe. The School of Bioengineering of Cambridge University also publicly stated that they have not found any similar viruses in nature so far. The possibility that the virus is congenital can be ruled out! "

Wilson rubbed his forehead and said, "I'm going to believe this explanation! Damn capitalists, don't they have a reasonable explanation?"

Rice said with a wry smile: "Unfortunately, Mr. President, just this morning, Mr. Jimsberg, the owner of the Texas chemical plant, had a gas explosion at his home. Thirty-six people in his family including his servants were killed!"

Wilson was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood. He dared to bet that if the news got out, the outside world would definitely cause an uproar. Anyone who still believes that this flu has nothing to do with the chemical plant is an idiot!

Jimsberger was not a small person. He was at least one of the top 30 big capitalists in the United States, and he was also a member of the largest consortium in Kansas, so the whole family died together.

Wilson didn't even need to track down the murderer. He couldn't find anything at all. Even if the investigation continued, it would be a matter of a few scapegoats. He could guess who was behind the scenes!

As for why you want to silence it, isn't it simple? Now anyone who has any relationship with the Texas Chemical Plant wants to put aside the relationship, not to mention the shareholders behind the scenes, they must be silenced!

Don't look at them in the United States, but they don't have much status in the world. In the face of pressure from all countries in the world, can the US government keep them?

If it is the US government of the world police, maybe it can still be done! If the current U.S. government dares to resist, believe it or not, the European coalition forces will come over?

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