Chapter 189 Chapter 189
Just when Ye Qing's research was in full swing, news came from the medical research team that a scientific researcher who had studied in Europe found that this swine fever was extremely similar to an epidemic that broke out in Red Bull Country more than ten years ago.
It is said that this plague once swept through the entire pig market of Red Bull Country. Because Red Bull Country did not respond in time, a large number of pigs died across the country, and the country was unable to raise pigs for many years. It was forced to spend a large amount of foreign exchange every year to import pork from other countries.
However, because of the painful price paid, the Chinese people worked hard and spent seven or eight years concentrating on studying the virus. Finally, two years ago, they developed a special vaccine for this virus and conquered the terrifying infectious disease that terrified people.
They all suffer from loss of appetite, high fever and diarrhea, which eventually lead to pneumonia, meningitis, etc., leading to the collective death of sick pigs. Every symptom can be matched.
The researcher has read a lot of information and is almost certain that the epidemic that broke out in Jiaotan County this time is extremely similar to the plague virus in Red Bull Country. It is very likely that the virus is a subspecies or variant of the plague in Red Bull Country.
It is also a coincidence that China and Red Bull Country just re-established diplomatic relations the year before last. The researcher's speculation may not be accurate, but it is already an extremely important message for the Ministry of Agriculture. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded quickly and contacted Red Bull Country almost as soon as the medical team reported the information.
The next day, they gave feedback, confirmed the statement, and even said that they could provide vaccines to the country. Of course, the price would definitely not be cheap.
This is already very encouraging news for the domestic Ministry of Agriculture. As long as there is a vaccine, the continued spread of the plague can be prevented and the impact of the epidemic can be minimized.
But after they calculated the data and found out how much foreign exchange it would cost to introduce this batch of vaccines into the country, several veteran comrades in the Ministry of Agriculture fell silent.
The country has no money. Just now, it spent all the tax revenue it collected with great difficulty on military scientific research projects, and its pockets are almost empty. If it spends such a large amount of money on this matter, I'm afraid that other departments waiting for funding will have to fight with the Ministry of Agriculture.
"Why don't we get some vaccines and do some research on them privately? After we figure out the ingredients of the vaccines, we can secretly make a batch for our own use?"
At that time, there was no awareness of intellectual property patent protection in China, and the country was extremely poor. Many fields were still groping in the dark, so borrowing foreign technology to imitate and copy it was also a necessary means of survival and development.
As soon as they saw that the Red Bull country's vaccine was so expensive, some old comrades immediately started to come up with bad ideas.
Unfortunately, this proposal was immediately refuted by another veteran worker who was familiar with the technology:
"It is not difficult to crack the ingredients of the vaccine, but knowing the ingredients is useless. The technology is important. Foreign countries use extraction and purification technology to make vaccines. This alone can make all domestic pharmaceutical manufacturers stunned. This is a technical barrier for us. At present, the drugs that can be produced abroad are difficult for us to achieve in China. It is too much to want to copy and imitate other people's drugs!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the old men who were originally full of energy suddenly became listless.
This doesn't work, and that doesn't work. A penny can make a hero fall. Are they really just going to sit there and wait for death?
The entire top leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture were all gloomy and their morale was low. They all felt that the pig industry in Jiaotan County was doomed this time, and they were afraid that if they couldn't control it, the entire Great Northern Wilderness would suffer.
At this time, the medical team sent by the province had already received the news and knew that Red Bull Country did have a special vaccine. The researcher who provided the news was immediately very proud and said that it would not be long before the country would definitely introduce the special vaccine technology back from Red Bull Country.
The medical team in the provincial capital breathed a sigh of relief. Although the vaccine was not developed by them, as long as the problem could be solved, they would have made some contributions, and they would surely be commended by their superiors. Then, based on this, they could learn from other countries' technology and imitate a Chinese vaccine that suits China's national conditions. This would mean a perfect ending.
Therefore, many researchers in the medical team all had relaxed smiles on their faces, and were not so anxious about the current vaccine research.
Little did they know that these researchers were too naive and overestimated the country's current strength. With China's current financial resources, it is not even enough to buy a batch of ready-made vaccines, let alone introduce other people's special vaccine technology. Even if it is necessary to make the other party open their mouths and pay a hundred or even a thousand times the price of the finished vaccine, we can get it back. Where does such a large sum of money come from? It can't just pop out of a stone, right?
So, while the medical team in the provincial capital were sitting there nonchalantly waiting to open champagne to celebrate, Ye Qing was still silently concentrating on her research on traditional Chinese medicine. In less than ten days, she verified hundreds of prescriptions and led her subordinates to boil thousands of pots of medicinal soup. Finally, she successfully found the best way to suppress the swine flu virus.
At this time, because they had to boil too many medicines and conduct too many experiments, dozens of people in the team had become almost numb. Even when the experimental pigs' condition improved significantly after taking the medicine, these team members failed to react in time. If Ye Qing had not discovered the clues and used his special powers to further test and confirm that it was the medicine that worked, I am afraid that this key prescription would have been missed by them.
For more than a week, this temporary warehouse was smoked into a pitch-black color. As soon as you entered the house, you could smell the strong aroma of traditional Chinese medicine. Even many people's sense of smell was almost impaired. Apart from the smell of medicinal materials, they could not smell anything else when they breathed in.
After too many attempts, failure became the norm. Everyone was prepared for a long journey, but they never expected that success would come so suddenly and quietly. This made everyone a little confused. Everyone stood there in a daze, and even expressed doubts about the results given by Ye Qing.
But who is Ye Qing? She has a full-level healing ability. How can she not see whether a bowl of medicine has any effect?
In order to prove her conclusion, Ye Qing divided the dosage of the prescription according to the severity of the disease, prepared several more doses and had someone boil them, then fed them to several sick pigs with varying degrees of illness.
A few hours after taking a bowl of medicine, the pigs began to respond. The high fever began to subside, the pigs with diarrhea no longer had diarrhea, and the pigs that were lying motionless on the ground finally got up and ate.
This reaction is definitely the result of the medicine working!
The group of people held their breath and stared nervously at the sick pigs, afraid of missing any abnormal details that might appear.
After several hours, the pigs behaved normally without any side effects. Ye Qing began to smile and clap his hands, signaling everyone to stop working on their tasks.
"Everyone can take a break. If I'm right, we have found the real special medicine!"
Having said that, Ye Qing couldn't wait to go out. She wanted to report this important news and ask the higher-ups to arrange for the mass production of the special-effect Chinese medicine packages as soon as possible.
Soon, the call was connected to the Ministry of Agriculture. The leaders who received the news were stunned. They even couldn't believe their ears. They repeatedly confirmed the truth of Ye Qing's words:
"What did you say? Have you really figured it out? Are you sure the recipe is effective? Are you kidding me?"
Of course Ye Qing couldn't be joking. Setting up this makeshift team was a bit of a joke, but she was more serious and earnest than ever before in researching Chinese medicine, okay?
The people in Jicheng were getting restless. On the one hand, they issued orders to the provincial capital to fully cooperate with Ye Qing to produce Chinese medicine packages as quickly as possible. On the other hand, they arranged for an inspection team to personally go to Wusongcheng Jiaotan County to guide the epidemic prevention work.
So, when Ye Qing finished compiling and summarizing all the information and submitted it to the province for review, the provincial department had not yet made an approval, and the inspection and supervision team from above had already arrived in Wusong City and took over many of the work of the provincial department in person.
With the formula for the special medicine, Ye Qing no longer needs to be personally involved in the subsequent matters. The people above are not lazy. The research data provided by Ye Qing is so detailed. If they still mess up the job, then these people don’t need to continue to stay. They should just pack up and go home.
Ye Qing had been delayed in the county for more than ten days, and had been enduring lack of sleep and food for more than a week. She was already exhausted, so after handing over the information, she felt a lot more relaxed, and hurried back to disband the makeshift team and let everyone under her go back and have a good rest.
Dozens of people were nervously waiting for notification in the warehouse. When they heard Ye Qing say that the mission was successfully completed, the huge warehouse suddenly erupted in enthusiastic cheers. Everyone was so excited that they slammed the table and shouted loudly, picked up the people around them and spun around, throwing everything they could reach into the sky, venting their inner excitement and surging emotions, and they almost overturned the roof of the entire grain station warehouse.
As happy and excited as the team led by Ye Qing was, the mood of the medical research team sent from the provincial capital was depressing and devastated.
Who could have imagined that so many of these self-proclaimed professional biological researchers, after working so hard, could not even find a vaccine, and that Ye Qing, an amateur who had not even received systematic training in veterinary medicine, got there first!
This little girl led a group of dozens of newbies who knew nothing and actually conquered the virus in just ten days and developed a special Chinese medicine for treating swine plague. How is this possible? !
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