A Hospital in Another World?

Chapter 244 (1)

The warhorses fell ill? And people too?

Garrett instinctively closed his eyes. Even without seeing the patients, he knew that those infectious bacteria he purified and separated would be zoonotic. There was only one type!

He quickly inquired, "What are the conditions of the patients? Blisters on the skin? Swelling around? Any high fever? Chest pain? Abdominal pain and diarrhea? Black stools?"

The little bird couldn’t answer this question but only flapped its wings and chirped on Old Sam’s palm. The elder mage glanced at Garrett helplessly, then repeated the question seriously and asked Garrett again, "Anything else to ask?"

"The patients should rest quietly, drink plenty of water, and have a liquid diet... um... drink milk, drink porridge. The horses should be slaughtered, burned, the manure disinfected, and deeply buried. It’s best to burn down the stable along with the horses or even the whole stable," Garrett answered without hesitation, "The sick should be isolated, all secretions and excretions disinfected and deeply buried. Those who have been in close contact with them should all be quarantined..."

After a pause, he quickly flipped through his mind’s "Infectious Diseases": "...8 days."

The elder mage added a few more words and sent a message bird. Then he turned back, asked Garrett seriously, "And this, isn’t it the same disease as that?"

"Definitely not!" Garrett blurted out, "One... um, one is from drinking unclean water, the other is from contact with the horses; one is a gastrointestinal disease, the other I haven’t seen yet, but it’s very likely to show up on the face, neck, hands, and feet first. Definitely not the same disease!"

"Are you sure? No need to go see immediately?"

"Probably." Garrett smiled wryly, "I myself... anyway, if I delay a bit of time, it’s still achievable to go and identify what it is. Anyway, the disease isn’t too urgent. Slaughter and burn the horses, isolate the people, it won’t spread too widely."

Anthrax, human-to-human transmission is extremely rare! It’s written in black and white in the book!

Although it’s a different world, this sentence might not be reliable, but if a bacterium looks like the one he studied in the book, and the animal experimental results are similar to what he learned, then there’s a high probability that he can use the words in the book as a lifesaving straw to hold on to for now!

"Anything else?" Old Sam’s face turned even darker. Garrett shook his head seriously, "Hard to say! The invader brought too many things with him. You saw, he ran so far, you can detect something even from the lake. I’ll say it again, all the places he passed by, grassland, soil, disinfect or burn them, people, isolate them for observation!"

With two groups of patients, two different diseases in front of them. Aurora ran around, spraying disinfectant all over the village, while the divination mage who came with them paced around slowly, suddenly shouting, "Found traces of the intruder! Stayed by the water!"

Old Sam hurried over. The divination mage pointed to the ground for him to see: Under the tracking magic, a vague human figure appeared by the edge of the pool, legs, knees, and even the hands pressed on the ground could be vaguely discerned.

From the look of it, if a person squatted by the pool, it would be convenient to drink water from it.

The elder mage took a deep breath. He waved to call a villager over, pointing at the pool and asking, "What is this pool used for?"

"To... store water! The water we drink and use in the village is all pumped from the pool!"

There were no more doubts.

Two outbreaks, two different plagues, both left traces by the intruder, spreading out and causing epidemics in a community.

If the previous order to raise vigilance was due to pressure from the legendary mages and the favoritism of the plastic and necromancy factions towards Garrett, then now it’s based on the responsibilities of the council members.

Old Sam took out a winged coin, raised it in front of him, flicked the edge of the coin, "It can now be confirmed that after the invader escaped from the laboratory, he carried multiple plagues that spread extremely easily.

The recommendation is to raise the vigilance level to that of the Dragon Scale Poison incident. The handling method is to accept the suggestions of the laboratory owner, burn the grass, trees, soil along the way, pour a large amount of bleach into the water, and personnel who have direct or indirect contact with the intruder should all be isolated and observed.

Council member of the Review Committee, Sam Lyon."

After finishing speaking, as his fingers relaxed, the wings of the coin fluttered and, like a meteor, soared towards the Tower of the Heavens dozens of miles away.

The proposal put forward by Old Sam as a member of the Review Committee soon received a response. As the coin returned, buzzing, it burst out with a thunderous four words:

"Agree to execute!"

Of the eight members of the Review Committee, five had been to Garrett’s laboratory, and among the remaining three, the one from the transmutation department also had a good impression of him. With the continuous news of the epidemic, before the evening of that day arrived, the Review Committee reached a unanimous decision:

Deploy sufficient forces, burn, isolate, disinfect!

Students with a mage rank of one or above from the three major mage academies were all mobilized. Under the leadership of the teachers, they spread out along the road, and the flames licked through the mountain pass.

Hmm, compared to making twice the amount of bleach with the electrolysis method, which also required using a higher-level laboratory, the gentlemen of the Review Committee felt that having the students work for free would save money...

"Burning Hand!"

"Burning Hand!"

"Scorch!"

"Fireball! Pay attention to controlling the burning range, only this hillside needs to be burned!"

"Save your energy! There’s still a lot more to burn! This job will be included in everyone’s final evaluation. You must do it well!"

At the same time,

on the 375th floor of the Tower of the Heavens, on the 58th, 59th, and 60th floors of the Plastic Mage Tower, all the laboratories were brightly lit.

Electricity flashed. Bags of salt and lime were dragged into the laboratory, and bags of bleach were sent out of the mage tower.

These expensive bleaching powders were used generously, pouring into all the water bodies that the intruder might have passed through and downstream.

And what was more tense was the city hall of this mage city. According to the direct orders issued by the Review Committee, they dispatched a large number of clerks every day to visit every household, report, and summarize the news:

"Bridgetown reports five cases of diarrhea, three cases of fever, all ordinary illnesses with no clustering!"

"Huiton Town reports three cases of diarrhea, seven cases of fever, no clustering!"

"Kaos Town reports..."

Disinfection, isolation, investigation, and reports of suspected cases. In this battle against the epidemic, Garrett was the busiest one:

Whether the patients can be released from isolation, he has to confirm recovery and finish bacterial culture before giving a conclusion;

Whether the water bodies need further disinfection, he also needs to take water samples for culture, staining, microscopic examination, and then make a decision;

As for those suspected patients, whether they are infected with the plague or not, Garrett has to diagnose before making a decision.

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