Chapter 103 "Big Killer"
Malaria is a parasitic disease caused by Plasmodium infecting the human body. It is the biggest problem facing the development of East African colonies.
The daytime temperature in the East African colonies remains at around 20 degrees all year round, and in the coastal areas it often remains at around 30 degrees.
It is very suitable for mosquitoes to survive, and malaria is spread through the bites of Anopheles mosquitoes.
So in areas where mosquitoes are more rampant, malaria spreads more widely. Especially in this era, people still don’t know that malaria is spread by mosquitoes.
It is impossible to stop the spread of malaria from the source. Malaria is widespread from tropical to subtropical areas.
In the early days of colonial development in East Africa, immigrants suffered a lot. Even under the mandatory orders of the East African government, large-scale improvements were made to the health and living environment.
It was not very effective, because in the early days East Africa was a large wasteland with lush vegetation, especially during the rainy season, when the weather was hot and humid, and mosquitoes breed rapidly.
The immigrants have just arrived, and the number is still small. Naturally, they cannot change their living environment quickly enough, so many people are infected, and many are taken away by malaria and other tropical diseases.
Fortunately, immigrants who can survive in the Far East and cross the ocean have never seen any strong winds or waves.
Just like the black slaves who went to the United States through the slave trade, they were the physically fit part of the black population that was selected by nature and man.
The same is true for the immigrants from the Far East who were able to reach East Africa alive. Of course, in order to ensure the survival rate of the immigrants, the conditions of their transportation ships were much better than those of black slaves.
Then, with the gradual increase of immigrants and the development of urban villages in East Africa, the living conditions in East Africa are slowly improving.
Under the command of Ernst, East Africa launched a large-scale mosquito eradication campaign, which has been going on since the beginning of the East African colony.
Burn the vegetation around the settlement site, fill in the puddles, reduce the living environment of mosquitoes, carry out biological control of the water bodies in the colony, and breed fish and frogs on a large scale to reduce the number of mosquito larvae.
As the development of the colony begins to take shape, the quality of life in the colony has also been greatly improved, especially tropical diseases such as malaria and dengue fever that are transmitted by mosquitoes. Due to the implementation of anti-mosquito campaigns in the colony, they have also been greatly reduced.
Moreover, the colony forced immigrants to pay attention to hygiene, strengthen management of water sources in the colony, strictly prohibit polluting water sources, not drinking raw water, or simply filtering and disinfecting some water bodies.
Feces are also centrally processed, and a number of new public toilets are built in each village to meet the needs of immigrants.
Management of wild animals that may spread diseases is even stricter. In the early days, due to food shortages, immigrants were allowed to hunt to supplement food. Once food production began in the colonies, such behavior was prohibited.
Ernst has always believed that many diseases in Africa in previous lives were entirely caused by Africans themselves, such as AIDS, which was caused by Africans eating local primates.
Regardless of whether this statement is correct or not, all primates in East Africa (excluding humans of course, let’s talk about it if they are indigenous) can be regarded as suffering, as long as they are within the scope of immigration activities (including farmland and roads), The baboons, monkeys, and orangutans that appeared were all brutally killed by the colonists. They were physically eliminated with muskets, then burned to ashes with fire, and finally buried (remote mountains, deep forests and savannahs are not included in this list, and will be reserved as ecological reserves in the future).
This is done to prevent some people from eating it. After all, immigrants came here hungry before and ate soil and tree bark. After living a hard life, they were afraid that someone would sneak in extra food for them. Under this strict defense, the living conditions of the East African colonies were naturally greatly improved, and the sanitary conditions were better than any other place at the same time, including Europe.
When the subsequent immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Paraguay arrived, East Africa had begun to take shape. They were all assigned to the cities and villages that had been developed by Chinese immigrants to dilute the number of Chinese. Prevent the formation of interest groups (such as ethnic groups) in the future.
Coupled with the increasing number of intermarriages between Chinese and white women (Armenia, Paraguay, etc.), the non-government in the Middle East has subtly integrated various ethnic groups. As long as the future of immigrants from various countries is to eliminate the cultural characteristics other than German culture, the population will be integrated. That's it.
Although the living conditions of the current East African colonies have greatly improved, tropical diseases are suppressed to very low levels at the same latitude.
It is conceivable that it is impossible to completely eliminate mosquitoes, and mosquitoes are the most important disease carriers. Therefore, in addition to continuing to strengthen sanitation and improvement activities, it is also necessary to use scientific means to repel and eliminate mosquitoes.
Again, people today have no understanding of mosquitoes as disease transmitters.
At the end of the 19th century, European scientists discovered that mosquitoes were the source of transmission of tropical diseases such as malaria, and began research on mosquitoes.
So now, only Ernst and the people in the East African colonies in the whole world believe that mosquitoes are the spreaders of diseases such as malaria.
It's not that Ernst was selfish and didn't announce it to the world. The problem was that he also knew it through his previous life. He was not a researcher or authority in this field. If he told it, he would probably be laughed out of his mouth.
East Africa is different. Illiteracy is everywhere, and public opinion is in Ernst's own hands. He can just make up a few non-existent experts and let his subordinates follow his instructions.
In the early days, people may have been reluctant, after all, everything was enforced, but slowly, with the improvement of sanitation and environment, diseases such as malaria have really decreased, and immigrants have become happy. Change (after all no one wants to die).
The benefits of using Chinese immigrants in the early days were revealed. They had strong obedience and weak sense of resistance. They were influenced by the culture of the Far Eastern government. Even if they had grievances, they would hold it back first. Therefore, the sanitary improvement movement enforced by the East African colonial government went smoothly. Implement.
When immigrants from other countries arrived, this model had matured and became the norm and daily routine in the East African colonies. After all, the number of new immigrants was small at first, so they could only follow it. In this way, paying attention to hygiene became The iron laws of the East African colonies must be followed by everyone.
Immediately, immigrants from the German region will arrive in East Africa, and good news comes from the Hechingen Consortium.
Pyrethrin was extracted as a result of joint research funded by Ernst and cooperation with German universities.
As long as we continue to follow the mosquito-repellent incense of the previous life and hire professionals to design and produce mosquito-repellent incense machines, we can mass-produce mosquito-repellent incense, a "big killer" of mosquitoes in tropical areas.
This will undoubtedly once again improve the living conditions of the East African colonies and further reduce the spread of diseases such as malaria.
Furthermore, the production of mosquito coils can bring new wealth to the Hechingen Consortium, and East Africa itself is the production base of pyrethrum, which can further form a perfect industrial closed loop.
(End of this chapter)