From the Black Death to the Spanish flu, why do infectious diseases follow human progress?
This report is written like this:? This flu? The culprit? The culprit? What's it called again? Brucella prevalensis? This kind of bacteria is so small that it can only be seen through a microscope. ?
When the news came out, the epidemic had broken out for about half a year, and the whole world suffered this time. About one third of the people in the world have the flu.
1920 In March, when the last case was recorded, nearly 50 million people had died, and some even thought that the actual death toll should reach 1 100 million. Due to the large population and the lack of reliable statistical data, a large number of deaths have not been recorded. But what about this time? Modern black death? Not from Spain, nor? Brucella prevalensis? In fact, it is not caused by bacteria at all.
The first case appeared in France, but it was still under press control in France during World War I, so it was not reported. However, Spain remained neutral and the press was relatively free in World War I, which made it the first country to report. But what I didn't expect was that after the public report, Spain was notorious as the source country, and the Spaniards were very angry.
As for the news that it has gone up in smoke, it is only a comfort to the public. At that time, science has replaced religion and become people's belief in resisting germs. At that time, the scientific concept believed that bacteria were the source of all plagues, and the cure could be found if the pathogenic bacteria were found, so the appearance of Brucella gave people great psychological comfort. The Spanish epidemic has never been effectively cured, and high-profile isolation measures have failed to stop the spread of the disease. Large-scale isolation camps provided inspiration for Nazi Germany's concentration camp cause. Since physical diseases can be isolated centrally, then? Acacia? I believe you can.
Just entering modern Japan, wearing masks became popular, and Yamato people became fans of masks, and the shape of masks has been preserved to this day. This isolation protection measure has also become the standard of infectious disease protection in various countries, and all countries carry out disinfection on a large scale, just like isolation. Even the weak Beiyang government has taken some disinfection measures to eliminate the PRF in Beijing.
The Spanish epidemic disappeared mysteriously after 1920, and people are still worried that the virus will make a comeback. At that time, when the epidemic broke out, many scientists tried to prove a hypothesis. There is a pathogenic organism smaller than bacteria, which is named? Virus? . From the Black Death to the Spanish flu, we can find that hundreds of years ago, human responses to the plague, such as treatment, isolation, disinfection, escape, and so on, have not fundamentally changed.
People's understanding of infectious diseases is actually constantly fighting and deepening the disease, and we must also accept that human beings should live with infectious diseases for a long time. At the same time, we can also see that with the progress of modern science and technology and medicine, we have many means to deal with infectious diseases. We must believe that relying on science, people's wisdom, unity and friendship, we will be able to meet all kinds of challenges from infectious diseases, and we will continue to improve our health and quality of life.