The door of the Li family's house was open. The house was very small and the situation in the entire room could be seen at a glance. Three people in the family were vomiting and suffering from diarrhea. They were listless and dying.

Because there was no toilet, the two elderly people even defecated directly in the basin, regardless of how ugly it looked.

Chen Chun quickly explained, "Uncle and Auntie, we are students from Zhijiang Medical University. Sorry to bother you, but we think there might be an infectious disease in your area, so we wanted to investigate."

Mrs. Li didn't even have the strength to do so. She didn't care who came into their house and didn't even want to ask. She just waved her hand weakly:

"Save us, we are almost dying."

Chen Chun endured the stench and looked into the basin. He saw that the feces he had excreted were like water and the color of rice slop, a sickly white. The vomit had turned into yellow water.

The whole room was filled with a strong stench of feces. Chen Chun suppressed the urge to vomit and observed the defecation of the other two people before hurriedly retreating.

After Zhan Aiju and the others came out, they compared the conditions of the patients from the four families and found that they all had one thing in common:

The bowel movements and vomiting are very severe, and the stool is like rice water, and the people who became ill have eaten seafood before.

Everyone started discussing it, and immediately thought of three possibilities:

The first is enteritis caused by food poisoning; the second is bacterial dysentery; the third is more serious, cholera, the legendary disease number two.

Chen Chun believes that bacterial dysentery is very likely, while Shen Huishan believes that since there is a history of contact with the same food, food poisoning cannot be ruled out.

Chen Xia shook his head when he heard this, thinking that these students had a good grasp of theoretical knowledge, but unfortunately they lacked clinical experience and had problems diagnosing diseases.

"No, if it's bacillary dysentery, there will usually be abdominal pain and tenesmus, small amounts of stool, and pus and blood. Moreover, the vomiting will not be so violent and projectile. These patients do not meet the criteria.

If the poisoning is caused by eating seafood, it is usually caused by Vibrio parahaemolyticus infection. The incubation period is very short and vomiting and diarrhea will occur immediately after eating. The stool is usually meat washing water or pus and blood, and is accompanied by fever.

Sister, you are talking about frequent diarrhea, projectile vomiting, and watery stools that are the color of rice water. So the two diagnoses you just mentioned cannot be established."

Chen Chun was a little surprised at how his brother knew so much about medicine. Could it be that he had really taught him so much when his father was alive? However, this was not the time to think about this, so he quickly asked:

"What disease do you think is more likely?"

Chen Xia looked at the pants fluttering in the wind by the well and answered firmly:

"cholera."

"Cholera?" Several people immediately gasped.

Chen Chun hurriedly asked everyone to throw away all the food in their hands, and strictly forbade Chen Qiu and Chen Dong to put their hands into their mouths.

Shen Huishan panicked. "What should we do? If it's really cholera, they're washing pants and bedsheets contaminated by the patient's feces and vomit. The river is polluted. And look, this well water is actually their drinking water source. That's going to cause trouble."

In 1980, running water was not yet widely available in Yuezhou Ancient City, especially in areas with old houses. People have been drinking well water since ancient times.

Whether it is bacillary dysentery or cholera, they are both transmitted through contaminated water sources through fecal-oral route. At this time, controlling the drinking water source is quite critical.

It was almost fatal. At this time, there were many people next to the well washing the pants contaminated by the patient's feces.

Chen Chun rushed over immediately and said, "Everyone, listen to me. Don't wash your pants by the well for now, and don't drink the well water anymore. There's something seriously wrong with the well water here."

Several aunties were unconvinced: "Little girl, this well is hundreds of years old, there won't be any problem."

Shen Huishan was so anxious that she stamped her feet. "Aunties, the vomiting and diarrhea of ​​so many people is not just a problem with the seafood. The way you clean it, bacteria and viruses are seeping into it with the contaminated water. This water is poisonous."

"poisonous?"

Now these aunties are nervous. If you say bacteria, they won’t understand, but if you say it’s poisonous, everyone will understand.

The aunties were all anxious: "Oh my god, what should we do? What should we do?"

Chen Xia quickly stepped forward and said, "This is urgent. We need to find a hospital right now to report this. Which is the nearest hospital?"

An elderly woman pointed to a building not far away and said, "Over there, the closest one is the Second Hospital."

Chen Chun and his companions didn't bother to be polite and hurried towards the nearest Second Hospital.

Yuezhou Second Hospital is just two blocks away, but the hospital is not large, with only about 200 employees, which is far less than the Fourth Hospital.

After Chen Chun and several others arrived, they immediately found the Medical Administration Department of the Second Hospital and reported what they saw in "Wangziqiao Alley" to the head of the Medical Administration Department, Huang Liuxiong, and also expressed their suspicions.

"cholera!"

Although Huang Liuxiong was a little perfunctory in his attitude towards these college students at the beginning, when he heard that it might be cholera, he jumped up in a hurry and even his voice broke.

Older doctors all knew the dangers of cholera and had seen it with their own eyes. It was a malignant infectious disease that killed many people.

"Are you sure?"

Chen Chun said dissatisfiedly, "Section Chief Huang, of course we can't be sure. Further stool microscopy or bacterial culture is needed to confirm the diagnosis. We came here this time to ask you to send people there quickly. The water source over there is contaminated, and I'm afraid more people will be infected soon."

Huang Liuxiong broke out in a cold sweat. While apologizing to Chen Chun and the others, he quickly ran towards the dean's office.

Chen Chun couldn't care less and took everyone to the toilet to wash their hands and other exposed skin, then took a bus back to Ke Town as quickly as possible.

The world outside is so scary.

In the office of the director of the Second Hospital, Director Wang Mengqi felt his scalp tingling when he heard this.

Cholera in that era was a terrible super plague. It was highly contagious and had a very high mortality rate. In this era of lack of medical care and medicine, it was really fatal.

"Old Huang, are you saying that a few university students came to report that there was suspected cholera in Wangziqiao Alley?"

Huang Sanxiong swallowed and nodded vigorously several times.

Wang Mengqi got furious when he heard this. "Then why the hell are you still standing there? Hurry up and get the doctor from the infectious disease department to take samples immediately."

Huang Sanxiong felt quite aggrieved. He had just received the report and immediately ran to the dean's office without any delay. However, leaders always have the right to be unreasonable, so there was nothing he could do.

Two hours later, news came that cholera was highly suspected.

Now Wang Mengqi could no longer sit still, and immediately reported to the director of the Health Bureau, who then reported to the deputy mayor in charge, and Wangziqiao Alley was completely blocked.

No matter how dumb the aunties standing by the well were, they knew that they were in trouble, so they cried loudly, as if it was the end of the world.