Chapter 554
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Chapter 554: The Outbreak of Influenza (1)
At this moment, Luo Ji, who was busy handling various government affairs and concentrating on the development of his civilization, naturally could not have known about such a small patient.
Meanwhile, the hospitals, which had just become idle after winter, had inexplicably become busy again in the past few days.
“Dean, Dean! Another patient with a high fever has been admitted!”
Hearing the assistant doctor’s words, Zhou Jingsheng, the Dean of Mirror City Hospital and Director of the Medical Department, felt his heart sink.
“Symptoms? Have the symptoms been confirmed? Are they consistent with those of the patients admitted earlier?”
“Yes.”
The assistant doctor nodded vigorously.
“It has been confirmed. The symptoms are largely consistent.”
Zhou Jingsheng rubbed his temples hard upon hearing this.
“Place the patient in the isolation ward of the nursing home!”
With that, Zhou Jingsheng immediately put down the medical record he was flipping through.
Then, as if having made up his mind, he spoke.
“I must see His Majesty!”
Not daring to delay for a moment, Zhou Jingsheng rushed toward the Audience Hall, without even taking off his white coat.
Currently, within Luo Ji’s Myriad World Civilization, there were already numerous departments, both large and small.
The staff within these departments were countless.
Normally, if there were no summons from Luo Ji, not just anyone could come directly to meet him.
There was a procedure for this.
Otherwise, if any staff member from any department could just come to see him with minor issues, how bothered would he, the Emperor, be?
However, the Medical Department was one of the departments Luo Ji highly valued and considered very important.
As the Director of the Medical Department, Zhou Jingsheng undoubtedly had the qualification to directly meet Luo Ji.
Upon receiving the guard’s report, and learning that Zhou Jingsheng, the Director of the Medical Department, was standing outside with a solemn expression, waiting for his summons, Luo Ji’s usually good mood instantly sank.
The Director of the Medical Department, with a solemn expression, coming to see him?
This situation, no matter how he thought about it, did not bode well.
“Bring him to the Audience Hall.”
The guard, receiving the order, quickly ran to relay it.
Luo Ji himself also quickly walked towards the Audience Hall after finishing the report he was reviewing.
“Your humble servant, Zhou Jingsheng, greets Your Majesty!”
“Alright, speak directly. What happened?”
Luo Ji, sitting in the main seat of the Audience Hall, asked very directly.
Zhou Jingsheng, naturally, did not hesitate.
He quickly recounted the entire situation.
“High fever, coughing, general weakness, and also difficulty breathing…”
Luo Ji muttered the patient’s symptoms reported by Zhou Jingsheng, his brows furrowing tighter and tighter.
After all, he was not a medical student.
His knowledge of medical issues was truly limited.
Therefore, the medical industry of his Myriad World Civilization currently relied primarily on Zhou Jingsheng and a few other medical talents whose growth potential reached 4-stars.
However, he still knew some common sense issues.
Combining the situation Zhou Jingsheng reported to him, Luo Ji’s first reaction was influenza!
Moreover, the season is now spring.
In modern society, spring was a high-incidence season for colds and influenza.
However, knowing this did not bring Luo Ji any sense of relief.
From beginning to end, epidemics were a problem he was very worried about.
This was because, in this era, many medical instruments and drugs did not exist.
The most critical point was that even going offline to check information was useless.
Even if the information told you what medicine to use, the problem was, where were those medicines?
If it told you a lot of Western medicines, that would be even more absurd.
All he could instruct now were the following points.
First, isolate patients and control the spread of the disease.
Second, ensure the cleanliness of the wards and promptly disinfect used items with alcohol.
Third, maintain good air circulation in the wards to prevent germs from breeding in confined spaces.
Fourth, tell the patients to drink more water to promote metabolism.
Of course, in addition to these, relevant announcements also needed to be issued promptly.
This would remind all the people within the Myriad World Civilization that influenza was breaking out, and if they found themselves or those around them having symptoms of a cold or cough, they must not be careless and must seek medical attention immediately!
As for researching the disease and treating patients, he could only hope that the silver-level skill books he had used on Zhou Jingsheng and others would be effective.
After the announcement was issued, the news of the influenza outbreak immediately poured cold water on the people who were still immersed in the joy of the festival.
For a time, the atmosphere throughout the streets and alleys of the Myriad World Civilization became subtly tense.
At the same time, the medical departments of other cities, along with their respective city lords, jointly sent urgent reports.
The content invariably informed Luo Ji that a large number of influenza patients had appeared in his Myriad World Civilization.
Luo Ji slammed yet another urgent report onto his desk.
His mood at this moment was clearly tinged with irritation.
Just now, he learned that the isolation wards in Mirror City were almost full.
Simultaneously, the first and second patients had quickly died in their sickbeds.
This news was simply terrible!
In this era, it wasn’t particularly rare for someone to die from illness.
But the problem was that the timing was wrong!
The outbreak of influenza had already made people somewhat uneasy.
At this critical juncture, with a large number of patients appearing, what kind of chaos would erupt if news spread that people were dying in their sickbeds?
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures!
With this thought, Luo Ji immediately spoke decisively.
“Issue an order to seal off information and raise isolation barriers around the hospitals and nursing homes in each city, prohibiting ordinary people from entering or exiting!”
“As for the bodies of deceased patients…”
At this point, Luo Ji’s voice paused, then he spoke in a deep tone.
“Cremate them promptly to prevent the spread of disease. However, collect the ashes after cremation, label them with names, and return them to the families of the deceased patients after this matter concludes.”
Orders were issued rapidly.
But Luo Ji, who was currently in the Hall of Political Affairs remained restless.
“Dying from illness, influenza…”
He constantly pondered this epidemic in his mind.
Upon careful thought, this influenza outbreak was very strange.
If it were only one city, or a few cities, that had influenza patients, he might not find it so strange.
He would just assume that the source of the disease had appeared in those few cities.
But now, almost every city had a large number of patients!
This was very strange.
What had all these cities done previously? How did they all end up with the disease?
As thoughts raced, Luo Ji realized he had to do something.
“Issue an order to organize and send all the patient’s identity records to me!”
