Chapter 330 Avian Flu
Xia Xiaoman thought that bird flu only occurred in poultry. Whenever they heard about bird flu, chicken farmers in the village would get very nervous, fearing that their chickens would be infected with it.
But she didn't know that humans can also be infected with avian influenza.
"Some wild birds can carry avian influenza. Recently, many people have been infected with avian influenza, probably because of contact with skuas. Have you been scratched by a skua during this period? Or have you come into close contact with a skua?" asked the doctor.
Xia Xiaoman was stunned. The only time she had close contact with a skua recently was when she threw the dying skua that Maodan was about to die into the space.
"Doctor, humans can be infected with bird flu, so can wolves be infected? My wolf cub bit a skua, could you take a look at it?"
The other party was a little embarrassed. "I'm sorry, I'm not very good at treating animals. You can observe it. If it has a fever, it may be infected with avian influenza."
When Xia Xiaoman heard this, he wanted to touch Maodan's head, but then he remembered that he was infected with avian influenza, so he withdrew his hand.
She didn't make things difficult for the doctor, but stood up and walked to the side to check the prescription on the wall. The prescription was very detailed, with both Chinese patent medicine and Western medicine. Judging from the seal on it, it should have been drawn up by the clinic and the medical station together.
Hu Ying hated Western medicine the most. She didn't expect that after she went to the capital, the clinic would cooperate with the medical station. If she knew about this, she would probably rush back and beat her eldest apprentice up.
After humans are infected with avian influenza, there will be an incubation period, after which various cold-like symptoms will appear, including fever, cough, headache, and sore limbs.
Many people who get avian influenza mistakenly think they just have a cold, so they don't take it seriously and just take some cold medicine.
However, bird flu is a virus and can only be cured by taking antiviral drugs. Cold medicines are not very effective against bird flu. If you continue to take cold medicines and let the disease go on, it is very likely to turn into pneumonia, causing complications such as pulmonary hemorrhage, pleural effusion, shock, and death.
So most of the medicines on the wall are antiviral drugs, including the common and common Radix Isatidis, and the rare antibiotics.
Xia Xiaoman looked at the names of the medicines on the prescription and felt a little relieved. She had one third of the medicines on the prescription, with Isatis root being the most common. She had both Isatis root in the form of powder and capsules.
After writing down the name of the medicine, Xia Xiaoman took Maodan back.
When she got home, she reminded Zhang Can and the others about the bird flu through the door, asking them to be more careful. Then, she drove Maodan into the house, and after locking him up, she threw the untreated skuas in the space into a corner and set fire to them.
This jaguars have been in the space for so long, and I don't know if it has polluted the space. However, the space is static, and things are the same when they are put in, and they are the same when they are taken out. The germs attached to the jaguars should not have the opportunity to pollute the space.
After cleaning the skua's body, Xia Xiaoman sprinkled some disinfectant in the yard, then drove Maodan out and disinfected the house inside and out.
After disinfection, she isolated herself from Maodan and locked Maodan in a small room.
But maybe Maodan was traumatized by being locked up during the plague. When he saw Xia Xiaoman locking him up, he hurriedly scratched the door with his claws and made a whimpering sound, sounding very aggrieved.
Xia Xiaoman felt very distressed, but in order to prevent Maodan from being infected with avian influenza, she had to harden her heart and lock it up.
Unexpectedly, the wolf cub Maodan went on a hunger strike with her. He was locked up for a whole day and didn't eat anything or even drink water.
In desperation, Xia Xiaoman had to let Maodan out, but asked Maodan to keep a certain distance from her and not to stick close to her. At the same time, every time she made Isatis root powder, she would make an extra cup for Maodan to drink to prevent avian influenza.
During the three days of self-isolation, Xia Xiaoman took double the dose of medicine for three meals a day, desperate to get better.
I don't know if it's because she took too many medicines or because of the bird flu, but she has been very sleepy these days. But the good news is that she no longer has a fever or cough, just a runny nose.
Feeling that her health had improved, Xia Xiaoman reduced the amount of medicine she took. After taking the medicine for half a month, the symptoms of the cold completely subsided.
But Xia Xiaoman was still worried, so she put on her clothes, put on a mask and went to Hu Ying Medical Clinic for a check-up. Only when she heard the doctor say that her illness was cured did Xia Xiaoman feel completely relieved.
Just as they were about to leave the clinic, Xiao Zheyu and Li Yu'e came running over, with Xiao Zheyu carrying someone on his back.
"Doctor! Please help me check on my daughter. She has had a fever for a long time, and we can't lower her temperature by physical methods. Please help us!" Li Yu'e took Wen Ling, who was lying on Xiao Zheyu's back, down and lifted Wen Ling's wrist for the doctor to help take her pulse.
When the person in the back saw someone cutting in line, he said indignantly, "Don't you know that you have to queue up to see a doctor? There are so many people in line, why are you cutting in line?" As he said that, he wanted to step forward and push Wen Ling and Li Yu'e away.
Seeing this, Xiao Zheyu kicked him and pulled out a dagger hidden in his sleeve, pressing it against his neck. "Either shut up yourself, or I'll shut up for you. Your choice!"
Feeling the icy blade pressing on his neck, the man's lips trembled and he dared not say a word.
Seeing that Xiao Zheyu didn't need help, Xia Xiaoman walked over to Li Yu'e and asked, "Sister Yu'e, what happened to Lingling?"
Li Yu'e looked up and saw Xia Xiaoman was also here. "Lingling and Axu went to catch skuas some time ago and got infected with avian influenza. I got them some medicine. The two siblings took the same medicine. Axu is almost recovered, but I don't know what happened to Lingling. Her condition is getting worse."
"She started having a fever last night. After finally getting her temperature down, she had a fever again this morning. Menglin said she had no other options and asked me to bring her to the clinic."
As they were talking, the doctor had already taken Wen Ling's pulse. He wrote a prescription for her and said, "Go to the acupuncture room and get two injections to reduce the fever, but this can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause. The child has already developed pneumonia, so you'd better get some antiviral and anti-inflammatory drugs for the child, otherwise..."
Hearing the doctor's words, Li Yu'e's face turned very ugly. She had spent a lot of money to get antiviral drugs, and anti-inflammatory drugs might be even more difficult to get.
The most important thing at this time was to reduce Wen Ling's fever. Li Yu'e didn't have time to think about it. She picked up Wen Ling and went to the acupuncture room. After about an hour of acupuncture, Wen Ling's temperature gradually returned to normal.
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