Chapter 1362 Medical Industry
Currently, the situation in Cabinda, Luanda, and Benguela is the most serious, so the relevant measures and procedures are also the most stringent.
This has no doubt that it has caused a certain impact on the industries of the three cities, but more is the service industry and business activities, and the impact of industry and agriculture is very small.
In fact, apart from requiring merchants and consumer places to add necessary epidemic prevention measures, the East African government did not force them to close their doors and cease business activities. However, due to reports from the news media and cumbersome inspections by the industrial and commercial departments, some businessmen took the initiative to close their operations. place.
This is normal. Although the East Africa government has not forced them to close the door, it has limited the passenger flow to prevent the crowd from gathering more than the alarm line.
In the case of small passenger flow, rent, water, electricity, etc. there are not small expenditures, and the increase in prevention measures due to the increase in epidemic prevention measures, which can cause an extra expenditure. It is better to temporarily stop operation.
In other words, although the East African government has not closed the door, some business units cannot withstand the impact of the epidemic. This is what East Africa calls equal emphasis on epidemic prevention and economy.
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Different from the relatively loose anti-epidemic policies in East Africa, it can be said that in order to prevent the spread of the plague, European and American countries today have the Eight Immortals crossing the sea and showing off their magical powers.
London.
Entering February, the London government forced closure of schools, cinemas, theaters, churches, and all public gatherings.
Throughout the streets of London, they fell into the Great Depression for a while, even more stubborn than during the war. After all, the World War I did not spread to the United Kingdom, and the epidemic was raging in London and other places.
In London hospitals, the beds are full of patients, but the beds are still very tight, or completely unable to meet the demand, and hospitals and crematoriums are full of long queues.
"At present, there are more than 100,000 cases registered in London due to influenza, and the country is added together, about 200,000 cases, and the situation is very critical."
"And this happened in less than half a month. The specific number may be more serious than we imagined, because many people cannot be counted at all."
The reason why London's death toll is so prominent is also closely related to London's high degree of urbanization. The entire population of London accounts for more than ten percent of the UK's mainland, and it is highly concentrated in such a small area, which intensifies the risk of transmission.
The Prime Minister of David listened to his subordinates in a gloomy face and asked: "What about the situation in foreign countries?"
The Minister of Health of the United Kingdom said: "Europe, France, Germany's situation is not better than us. Although France is prepared before, France is the source of this influenza after all, so the situation in France may not be better than us than us. How much is it.
"Except Germany and France, other European countries have been affected. The epidemic has now covered the entire European region, and even Russia in the east has been affected."
"In addition to Europe, the most serious disaster is North America, because after the war, the return of soldiers in the United States and Canada, which caused a large number of influenza patients to flow into the United States and Canada."
Prime Minister David asked: "How about that East Africa?"
The Foreign Secretary said: "According to feedback from our diplomatic departments in East Africa, East Africa has now controlled the epidemic in coastal areas, and their capital, the Rhine City, has not been affected for the time being."
"However, according to the news from our consulate in Cabers, even if it is the most affected area like Kabaoda, there are only a few thousand patients."
"Because East Africa discovered that the flu is relatively timely, they generally refused this flu, but over time, they should develop to East Africa inland ..."
Prime Minister David can no longer listen. Now he does not care how the epidemic will develop in East Africa in the future. The current actual situation is that the situation in East Africa is better than that of the United Kingdom, and even better than that of most countries.
However, this is also a normal phenomenon. After all, East Africa is far from Europe, so after discovering flu, as long as the customs work is done, most of the sources of infection can be done.
In fact, in the United Kingdom itself, there is a region that has not been impacted by the plague, that is, Australia. After the outbreak of the plague, Australia introduced relevant policies to actively isolate.
Australia itself is located in a very remote place with a vast territory and sparse population, so it will naturally be least affected by the epidemic.
Prime Minister David said with some helplessness: "There is no other way now. Until the fatality rate of this plague is determined to be reduced, we must continue to maintain a high-pressure policy and strictly guard against the French flu."
As the old opponent of France, Britain has never given France face. The European influenza defined by East Africa, Britain does not accept this statement, but instead calls the French influenza.
Although the British government would not say this on official occasions, it said so in private. Who made the plague most likely to occur in France.
Today, the British people can say that the "French influenza" can be said to have a deep disgusting. The data mentioned earlier is only the number of deaths registered in the government, and the number of infected people will obviously only be more.
Nowadays, people who are not infected throughout London are really unusual, but most people can still survive. As for those who do not have a long time, they have become cold numbers on the British government statistical table.
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Compared with the UK, the Americans have truly suffered a disaster, especially US President Wilson, whose recent public opinion approval ratings have dropped significantly.
The Wilson government is currently facing the impact of four major problems. The first is that the United States participated in World War I, but did not obtain many practical benefits after the war. This made all walks of life in the United States very dissatisfied.
The second problem is that because the war ended suddenly, the Germans, who had been suppressed by the US government, began to fight back and retaliate against the United States.
After the United States entered the war, Germans in the United States suffered various persecutions, but Germans are one of the most populous ethnic groups in the United States. Now that the war is over, these Germans will naturally not be satisfied with the support of Germany.
The third problem is that the epidemic suddenly broke out of the impact on American society. Now Americans believe that the government is the reason for participating in the European War, which has led to the influenza back to the United States.
The fourth issue is the military issue. The center of the US epidemic is caused by the army. The barracks have become the largest spread of epidemic. However, because the US government is not in place, it has caused dissatisfaction among some grassroots soldiers in the United States.
After all, in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, the US government restrained the army in the barracks, which instead made the entire barracks a hotbed of the virus.
What's more, the U.S. government still has arrears of salary and cannot make up for bad behaviors such as warfare pensions.
It can be said that the United States is now like an explosive barrel. Various social problems have accumulated together. They also encounter the time period of plague, and there is a risk of explosion at any time.
This forces American interest groups to sacrifice this US government to quell public anger. Therefore, President Wilson's situation is even more difficult than that of French President Clemenceau.
However, fortunately, the United States is a true democracy. At least the president and the government can be pulled out to take the blame, temporarily alleviating the pressure on the people. Although changing the president may not necessarily solve these problems, at least it can have a certain soothing effect on the people.
White House. President Wilson asked the Secretary of State Henry: "What about the situation of the big European flu in Europe?"
Henry said: "The situation is very bad. In addition to the uncountable number of infected people, commercial activities have been severely disrupted. Factories and enterprises cannot operate normally due to a large number of sick workers and absenteeism. Schools have also had to close. The development and operation of the entire society are affected.”
President Wilson asked: "Is there no solution to this plague? Is it really as unstoppable as the Black Death?"
Henry replied: "That is the case at present, but it is not without a solution. According to disease experts, the best way to deal with the European influenza pandemic is isolation."
"This plague is mainly spread through the respiratory tract, which means that reducing personnel flow and communication can reduce the risk of infection to the greatest extent."
"In addition, we can learn from some experiences of the East African and French governments, increase national control, and pay more attention to the health and medical fields."
The power and credibility of the U.S. government are far inferior to those of the East African government. This also means that some policies that East Africa can implement cannot be copied by the United States. Each state in the United States alone may not necessarily act in accordance with the instructions of the U.S. government.
This is also one of the main reasons why the United States made mistakes in responding to the European influenza pandemic. Each state has its own laws and regulations, which makes it difficult for the flow of people and materials to follow the will of the US government.
President Wilson said: "Now it seems that it really cannot be allowed to let it go, restricts the states, strictly follows the government's instructions. When facing the public crisis of plague, the whole country should be a city. High hanging "
"At the same time, vigorously promote the popularization of the people's knowledge about health knowledge. It is led by the government and printed a batch of publications and posters. As much as possible, the people in the country are aware of the dangers and dissemination of European influenza, thereby reducing the risk of epidemic spread." < br>
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Except for the United States and the United Kingdom, countries and regions around the world have their own related measures and methods to respond to the epidemic.
However, most countries in the world are learning more from France's "advanced" experience, even East Africa, the first country to make relevant plans.
The reason for this result is that, in addition to the fact that France was the first to introduce relevant bills and measures, the second reason seems a bit ridiculous, that is, the epidemic in France is more serious than that in East Africa.
France is most likely the origin of the epidemic and the most severely affected area.
And this also made France a test site for various responses of epidemic methods. East Africa, the number of infections in the country did not even have more than 50,000, it was impossible to achieve this purpose at all.
In the experience obtained from France, there is no doubt that the basic methods such as masks, disinfection, attention, and isolation have been verified, which also caused these effective relevant measures to spread from France to all parts of the world.
Since February 1920, masks have begun to promote the world. Although the mask is invented by East Africa (this time and space is the case), it is France that has really played a role in promoting it.
Since February, the world has set off the wave of masks, which has also made East Africa's related companies making a lot of money.
Because since the last century, East Africa has been the first major producer of medical supplies such as masks. Although the original original intention of the East African mask was to deal with some tropical areas, it has also led to East Africa as the first large mask production country. And the only country to produce large -scale industrialization.
A large number of orders poured into East Africa, which made East Africa's mask manufacturers earn a lot. In addition, some alcohol, medicines and other manufacturers also received a large number of overseas orders.
Among them, there are many kinds of antipyretics in East Africa. In addition to some patented drugs produced under authorization, East Africa also has some manufactured pharmaceutical products based on traditional Chinese medicine and other medicines.
Not to mention the specific effect, this does greatly increase the varieties of various drugs in East Africa.
There are many sources of East African patent drugs. One is a drug developed by East Africa, and the other is a drug obtained from other countries. In the end, some drug patents obtained from the allies from East Africa.
During the World War, East Africa was a neutral country, so it naturally became a drug processing factory for some countries. This led some foreign pharmaceutical companies to invest in East Africa to produce related drugs.
At the end of the war, East Africa has obtained a lot of good things from the allies, all of which have stimulated the accelerated development of the pharmaceutical industry in East Africa.
After the war, some local pharmaceutical companies in European countries had not yet recovered due to the devastation of the war, which made their markets temporarily cheaper than East Africa.
Of course, this is also related to the natural environment of East Africa. As a tropical country, East Africa attaches great importance to the pharmaceutical industry. After all, tropical is a hotbed of various diseases.
Therefore, since the last century, the East African government has tried every means to develop its own pharmaceutical industry, and has even done some shady things to this end.
The most typical one is to conduct relevant experiments through black people. It can be said that black people have made great contributions to the development of the pharmaceutical industry in East Africa. With the help of these black people, East African pharmaceutical companies and research institutions can boldly try and make mistakes and accumulate experience.
This also made East African pharmaceutical research and development ushered in a big outbreak after the 1990s, and the reason why it happened after the 1990s, it also made sense.
After all, medical research and development requires professional talents and knowledge accumulation, and the 1990s was also when compulsory education and higher education in East Africa began to pay off on a large scale.
At the same time, East Africa has previously introduced medical achievements around the world. Through the accumulation of 20 or thirty years, it has also begun to achieve initial results. After the personnel and knowledge foundation are firm, the East Africa government can launch the research in the medical field in an orderly manner.
The 1990s was also an era when the slavery system in East Africa was relatively developed. There were still a large number of black workers in East Africa as material for medical researchers.
Therefore, after collecting policy support, talent training, special funds, related equipment, basic theoretical knowledge, experimental materials and other elements, it is very difficult for the East African pharmaceutical industry to not explode.
Although the accumulation and development of more than 20 years, this directly led to one of the most developed countries in the world's medical research and pharmaceutical industry before World War I.
As a result, the East African pharmaceutical industry was able to make a fortune during the First World War and build East African medical care's reputation around the world.
This is also the main reason why the United States was still unable to compete with East Africa in the field of medical products in Europe in the late war. East Africa's medical products not only produced large quantities, but also had more reliable quality.
Through the excellent reputation accumulated at the beginning of the war, at least the armies and soldiers of various countries were more willing to trust East African products.
At the beginning of the 20th century, gaining European recognition meant that East African medical products gained world recognition.
In the later stages of the war, after further absorbing some technologies in the medical field from Germany and other countries, the East African pharmaceutical industry has actually become the number one in the world, both in terms of industry scale and product quality.
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