Qiu Feng said at a loss: "How could it be? The King of Light is working hard to suppress the snails, and the hospital is also constantly accepting patients.
Although tartar medicine has some side effects, it can indeed kill schistosomiasis.
Everything is getting better..."
"I told you, it's useless."
Li Ang pressed his palms on the table and said in a deep voice: "I created the tartar medicine, how could I not know its side effects?
After taking the medicine, nearly 90% of the patients' body temperature increased.
70% of patients suffer from loss of appetite and dizziness
50% of patients suffer from cough and headache.
Forty percent of patients suffer from abdominal distension, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.
Twenty percent of patients suffer from chest tightness, nausea, vomiting, and joint pain.
In addition, there are liver enlargement and tenderness, chills, muscle pain, rash, itching, and overdose can even cause liver necrosis and even death."
Antimony potassium tartrate is an emetic, and its oral absorption is extremely unstable and highly irritating to the gastrointestinal tract.
And subcutaneous or intramuscular injection can also cause strong irritation, so it can only be injected intravenously.
During the treatment cycle,
Patients will have strong reactions and suffer pain,
Therefore, in the memory of the other world, it was replaced by other antimonial agents, such as ethyl monothioacetate, oxybenzene, etc., and other non-antimonial schistosomiasis treatment drugs, such as furopyramide.
Qiu Feng stepped forward, placed his palm on the back of Li Ang's hand, and stroked it gently.
As a doctor, she can understand Li Ang's mood.
The sadness of being helpless,
Anger at the status quo,
Confusion about the future.
In the eyes of others, the young man in front of him may be the top scholar in the academy, the king of medicine that can cure all diseases, or the humerus of the imperial court.
But at this moment, in her eyes,
Li Ang's identity is still the young boy who stepped out of the crowd at the inn outside Chang'an City and said he wanted to cure Yong Hongzhong's vertigo.
Li Ang silently looked at the setting sun outside the window, completely unaware of Qiu Feng approaching and the fragrance on her body, and suddenly said: "...Taihu Lake"
"Huh?"
Qiu Feng subconsciously came back to his senses.
"The schistosomiasis in Taihu Lake is no longer under control."
Li Ang took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, "During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, single ponds, Wu ponds, north and south Xietang and other pond weirs were built east of the Jintan in the west.
There is a saying in Changshu in the east: "There are twenty-four riverside ponds in Gaoxiang, which are connected to the tide and can be irrigated, so there is no need to worry about drought."
Before the Sui Dynasty, large-scale irrigation and drainage projects were built in Runzhou, Changzhou and Suzhou.
A few years ago, Meng Jian, the governor of Changzhou, opened the Mengdu River in the west of Changzhou, connecting the Yangtze River in the north and the canal in the south. It is 41 miles long, diverting water from the river to irrigate 4,000 hectares of farmland, and connecting it with canals.
River embankments, dams, ditches, gates, fishways....
The area around Taihu Lake, and even the entire Jiangnan East Road, is in a dense water network and is affected by water conservancy projects.
Even if the schistosomiasis in one river is not completely eliminated, the entire Taihu Lake will suffer..."
Qiu Feng bit his lip and couldn't help but say: "But we have clearly issued an order that no one is allowed to go into the water or the lake before the snails are eradicated..."
"Even if people can strictly guard against death and strictly control, what about animals?"
Li Ang shook his head and said bitterly: "Almost all mammals are within the parasitic range of schistosomiasis.
As long as you come into contact with infected water for more than ten seconds, you are at risk of infection.
Rat, cat, dog, rabbit, sheep, cow, pig, wolf...
They can't understand the slogans we put up, and they will still run around in the grassy shallows and get infected with schistosomiasis.
And carry out the feces containing schistosomiasis eggs to other water systems.
A cow pooping in the wild can spread as much as hundreds of humans.
And those countless wild rats may be more numerous than fishermen and farmers.
Do you understand?
Taihu Lake has a coastline of more than 800 miles. Within the entire water system, the total number of wild animals is like the stars in the sky. Could they all be killed?
How is that possible?
There is no way to kill, and there is no way to kill them all.
The entire Taihu Lake is like a pot of epidemic soup.
Waiting for the arrival of spring plowing, the gates will be opened and water will be released to cover the entire territory."
Li Ang's voice was hollow, and he stared blankly at the setting sun setting over the mountains in the distance, as if he saw some unspeakable horror in the afterglow of the setting sun.
"This, but..."
Qiu Feng opened his mouth, "We can kill the snails. We can dig ditches, spray pesticides, and mow the grass. There is always a way to kill the number of snails.
Without the snails, there will be no transmission channels for schistosomiasis..."
"It's just a temporary measure."
Li Ang shook his head and said: "The fecundity of snails is far beyond imagination.
A pair of snails can produce 250,000 offspring in one and a half years.
Countless hillsides, tidal flats, haystacks, riversides,
Even if humans carry out large-scale extermination, 90% of the snails can be killed.
The remaining 10% can definitely make a comeback in one or two years.
Just like the tide, it ebbs and flows.
What we are doing now is more like emergency rescue to save spring plowing in Jiangnan Road."
Qiu Feng couldn't help but remain silent, and Li Ang continued bitterly: "During this period, I have been using the close insect to contact Chang'an, and I even directly asked the mountain chief if there was any way to kill a specific species.
For example, some kind of first-level alienated object, such as some kind of taboo magic that was lost in the long history.
But the answer is no.
Even the Academy is not capable of doing this.
The intensity of the Yu State's court providing resources to Suzhou will eventually decrease.
After realizing that schistosomiasis can never be eradicated, the princes of the imperial court will quickly reach a consensus.
Agree that the scope of the schistosomiasis epidemic will be limited to a smaller range that is acceptable to Yu State.
It's like a sore that always exists. It doesn't lead to death, it just brings long-term torture.
And those farmers and fishermen who have to come into contact with the lake water have become the ones who have to pay the price."
Li Ang raised his palms and covered his face tiredly, "Haha, little Medicine King God,
The people here worship me, respect me, treat me like the real King of Medicine and God, and build a shrine for me, but I can't do anything.
I know everything and I can’t do anything.”
"..."
Qiu Feng looked at the tired and self-reproaching young man in front of him and suddenly said: "Yan Ziming, Zou Hongda, Liu Bohong, Liu Guangji, Shao Zhan, Shao Jingkuang, Jiang Hongli..."
She suddenly reported a series of names, faced Li Ang's doubtful gaze, and gently placed a large stack of documents in her hand on the table.
"This is a partial list of patients admitted to the ward in the past two months. They were riddled with parasites when they came, but now, they are all still alive."
Qiu Feng stretched out his slender fingers, quickly turned the pages of the book, and read the names on it, "Lin Xingye, Cui Yiyou, Jia Kui..."
The list is very long. In order to track the treatment results of the patients, the hospital also registered their place of origin and address on the list.
Every name represents a family.
"Sunrise, maybe schistosomiasis is really like a tide and cannot be completely eradicated. Maybe this is a protracted war with no end in sight,"
Qiu Feng put his hand on the thick list, looked directly into Li Ang's eyes, and said firmly: "But everything we do is not meaningless."
This chapter has been completed!