Chapter 481 The Spanish flu

Although Wang Chenhao was dissatisfied with the safety awareness of District 51, he also understood in his heart that due to the limitations of the times, it was impossible to reach the management level of the 21st century at once.

Thinking that the earliest influenza virus in the world was isolated in 1933, and the establishment of a professional virus laboratory only appeared in the 1960s. Although the Chinese Empire invested a lot of manpower and material resources in this regard, many aspects were not achieved in a short period of time by hard work and investment, Wang Chenhao couldn't help but worry.

Fortunately, the officials of the empire were very efficient. Under the instructions of Wang Chenhao, officials from the five provinces and nine ministries of the cabinet put aside their prejudices and contradictions for the first time and took joint action for the life and health of the empire's 50 million ensembles. Before the Spanish thief came, a powerful epidemic prevention and protection network was erected on the border line of the country's border.

All vehicles, aircraft, trains, ships, cars, etc. entering the Chinese Empire will be fully disinfected. All incoming personnel, whether civil servants, soldiers, merchants or civilians will be quarantined for more than half a month to prevent the epidemic from entering the Chinese Empire.

At the same time, provincial governments and parliaments in the empire have issued relevant epidemic prevention regulations, such as establishing emergency epidemic command centers, coordinated by senior provincial and ministerial officials, maintaining order by the National Guard officers and soldiers, and major hospitals have set up special isolation and treatment areas. Anyone with headache, high fever, muscle aches, loss of appetite, and abdominal pain and diarrhea are considered to be a case of Spanish influenza and suspected to be isolated. Localities report the situation to the superior authorities every day, and provinces report to the Imperial Ministry of Health Epidemic Prevention Center every three days, so as to be quarantined immediately once the epidemic is discovered.

The Imperial Ministry of Finance urgently allocated 300 million dragon coins as a funding plan for taking emergency defense measures in the outbreak areas. The local finances assumed the backup funds of 100 million dragon coins and prohibited the misappropriation and squeezed the funds.

At the same time, the Ministry of Health issued a reward order to 175 large pharmaceutical companies in the Empire, requiring major companies to develop anti-influenza virus drugs. Once effective, the Imperial government will allocate huge funds to reward and purchase the special drugs developed by the company on a large scale.

At this time, the Chinese Empire already had Shennong antibiotics, which had powerful antipyretic and analgesic effects. They were used to treat colds, fever, headaches, toothaches, joint pain, rheumatism and other symptoms. Most of the drugs used by European countries to resist the Spanish flu epidemic are Shennong antibiotics, and have achieved certain results. The early prevention effect is obvious. The recovery rate under mild infection is more than 50%. Severely infected people can also continue their lives for several days.

In order to cope with the Spanish flu epidemic, European countries produced this anti-inflammatory drug on a large scale, and the amount of patent fees used to pay the Chinese Empire's Shennong Antibiotics was huge, which made the Chinese Empire's Shennong Pharmaceutical Company make huge profits. In just one month, European countries produced 80 million doses of Shennong antibiotics and paid Shennong Pharmaceutical Company a huge patent fee of up to 50 million dragon coins. This did not include the doses secretly produced by some European companies.

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Because the Shennong antibiotics in the Chinese Empire were expensive, the purchasing power of European citizens after the war was low, and more than half of the civilians could not afford this drug. At this time, the price of aspirin produced by Bayer in Germany was controlled by the German government and dropped to the civilian price, and its sales also rose sharply.

After the compensation procedure was initiated, Bayer's assets were frozen, but because the German side owed Bayer's 500 million dragon coins during the war, in fact, except for fixed assets worth 15 million dragon coins, Bayer's funds have always been negative, and it is impossible to repay the compensation costs to Shennong Pharmaceutical Company.

To this end, Shennong Pharmaceutical Company officially took over Bayer. The 500 million dragon coins owed by the German government were repaid by the Weimar government.

After Shennong Company took over Bayer Company, the aspirin on the market was labeled as Shennong Company. In order to recover profits, Shennong Company also significantly raised the supply price of aspirin. The German government was limited in finance and was unable to pay huge drug procurement costs. The efforts to control the epidemic were suddenly greatly reduced, and the epidemic intensified, which caused strong protests from the German people.

The Weimar government then negotiated with the Chinese Empire and requested the price of aspirin and Shennong antibiotics to be lowered. To this end, the German government submitted a letter of request to the League of Nations and persuaded the International Red Cross to come forward to coordinate.

At this time, Shennong Pharmaceutical Company took over Bayer, but failed to get the expected benefits. The European countries had very weak payment ability, and a large number of civilians were unable to use expensive drugs. The number of people who died because they had no money to buy medicine gradually increased. Shennong Company became a vampire in the eyes of Europeans, and protests were heard one after another. Similarly, the image of the peace ambassador of the Chinese Empire was also questioned because the citizens of the Chinese Empire were using high-quality and lower than that of Shennong antibiotics abroad.

At the same time, a large number of pharmaceutical companies have appeared in various European countries, all wanting to take advantage of the Spanish flu to make a fortune. They are unable to develop and produce new drugs, so they naturally target Shennong antibiotics and aspirin and make large-scale counterfeiting. This is the most deadly blow to Shennong Pharmaceutical Company.

Finally, after consultation between the Chinese Empire government and various governments, the board of directors of Shennong Pharmaceutical Company weighed the pros and cons and decided to reduce the prices of Shennong antibiotics and aspirin, making them more affordable and affordable to civilians. Governments of various countries did not dare to really offend the Chinese Empire, and finally made concessions. Governments of various countries made every effort to ban the pharmaceutical companies that illegally copied Shennong antibiotics and aspirin, and pulled out special funds to subsidize Shennong Pharmaceutical Company's losses, such as canceling the drugs produced by Shennong Pharmaceutical Company into various

More than a dozen taxes, including tariffs, business taxes, etc., especially France, which is the most dependent on the Chinese Empire, has completely abolished all taxes on Shennong Pharmaceutical Company. In this way, the prices of Shennong antibiotics and aspirin have been greatly reduced, and ordinary people can afford to buy and use them. Shennong Company has also ensured profits. At the same time, the large-scale price reduction action has gradually improved the reputation of Shennong Pharmaceutical Company, and has hit various counterfeit brands to ensure the stability of Shennong antibiotics and aspirin in the future domination of the world.

The Spanish flu that broke out in May lasted until July, and it did not have a great impact on the world. The impact area was mainly concentrated in the European continent, with about 40 million people infected, of which 6.5 million died. It was mainly concentrated in Russia, where the epidemic broke out first. In Poland, people here were first infected, and there was no effective control due to war. In addition, the place was extremely poor after the war and could not bear the huge medical expenses. Therefore, more than half of the population was concentrated in Eastern and Southern Europe, and the Soviet Union was the worst, paying the price of 7 million deaths, which made the already fragmented Russians worse.

Because Britain is an island country and has been in control in a timely manner, it only paid the price of 30,000 deaths in the first wave of influenza attacks. On the American continent across the Atlantic Ocean, it was two months after the virus spread there. All the American countries learned about the terror on the European continent, so they took precautions in advance, with only a thousand infected people.

In Asia, the Chinese Empire was even more alert to the public. A strong epidemic prevention protective cover was erected on the customs border line. Several provinces on the domestic border experienced epidemics, but were all isolated. Three provinces in the inland provinces discovered the epidemic, all of which were spread by planes and were isolated at the airport. In the end, only five people died too late.
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