Chapter 2304 A Pox
The six people were stunned, wiping their tears and asking, "Then, how long can we eat this continuation meal?"
Manbao calmed down a bit and said, "You have already taken the medicine for two, no, three days. Let's take it for another seven days. We'll see how it goes then. If your complexion is better, we can start the vaccination."
She looked at their faces and couldn't help but remind them, "Don't think too much. I tell you, when you really want to live, your body will be better than those who don't. Smallpox is a virus. The stronger you are, the less likely it is to defeat you."
Is there such a saying?
Bai Shan then added, "They are all sick, and strong people are indeed more likely to recover than weak people."
This sentence was not difficult to understand, so the six people looked at the food on the table and immediately picked up their chopsticks to eat.
Seeing how voraciously they ate, Bai Shan and the others felt embarrassed to snatch food from them, so they only ate half full and put down their bowls and chopsticks and left.
Manbao and Zhou Liru had put on their masks again and were staring at the cows with their sharp eyes.
Bai Shan walked over and stopped a few steps away from them and asked, "Is the cow still not infected with the pox?"
"No," Manbao said, "so I got vaccinated for the second time today."
Manbao had never vaccinated a cow with smallpox before. He only knew that it should be vaccinated through the sinuses. However, three days after the first vaccination, the cow was still healthy and had no problems. There was no choice but for Manbao to vaccinate a second time.
Hopefully it works this time.
Three days later, the three cows were still in great spirits.
Even six soldiers couldn't help but stand in the cowshed to watch the fun. Manbao didn't let them get too close. They were going to be vaccinated with cowpox, not directly infected with smallpox.
So they were driven away.
Manbao had a headache, but she didn't dare to increase the dosage directly. Instead, she added a fingernail more than last time as usual. She decided that if she failed this time, she would ask Teacher Mo for help to check whether these acne scabs were still alive. Could it be that these pollen were dead because they were kept too tightly in Koko's space?
Then, on the third day after she had a new pox scab, a cow finally got a fever and got pox. When Manbao saw it, he almost couldn't help but hug it, "Wow, the pox finally came out."
The six people in the yard suddenly became nervous and asked, "Master Zhou, are we going to start the vaccination?"
Manbao turned around and looked at them, but because she was wearing a mask, they couldn't see her expression clearly.
"Not so fast. Wait until all the pimples are out and the scabs fall off after it gets better."
She said, "This is human pox. It's less virulent than the smallpox it infects itself with. If humans can handle it, cows should be fine."
If the vaccination had been successful the first time, the pox on the cow should have scabbed over by now. Unfortunately, the pox has only just appeared now, and it will probably take another five to ten days before vaccination can begin.
Manbao warned them, "Don't go out from the front yard recently, go out from the back."
The Western Region had begun to get colder, especially in the mornings and evenings, when frost would sometimes fall. The six of them all had old injuries and didn't really want to go out.
They felt comfortable living in the house, but unfortunately Lord Zhou required them to go out for a walk and bask in the sun every day, treating them like flowers and plants.
Manbao had been carefully taking care of the cow that had pox. Within two days, the other two cows also got pox.
Manbao breathed a sigh of relief, and he and Zhou Liru happily fed the cow medicine every day and paid attention to its body temperature.
Cows will also cry when they are sick, but the three cows sent by the Protectorate were relatively docile. When they were in the most pain, they would snort and turn around restlessly in the cowshed.
Because they had acne, Manbao didn't let them go out to have fun on the grassland. He could only stand outside the cowshed every day and talk to them, hoping that they would be in a better mood.
However, Zhou Liru felt that they might not be in a very good mood.
Cows are just stronger than humans. After the first cow was sick for four days, the pox on its body began to subside and form scabs.
Manbao was overjoyed when he saw it.
She waited for another day, and after confirming that they were indeed scabs, she began to carefully remove a few scabs from the cow.
That afternoon, he made a wound on the inside of the six people's arms and put the scab on it. He then wrapped the scab and the wound with cloth and removed the scab before going to bed at night.
All six of them were trembling.
Although they had experienced life and death many times, for some reason, they were frightened when they saw a wound as small as a little finger. There was only a little blood. Under normal circumstances, they would not take it to heart.
Seeing how nervous they were, Manbao comforted them, "Don't be afraid, I've always lived next door. If you feel uncomfortable, just call me."
She said, "We have prepared the herbs in advance. If the acne is serious, we can use medicine and injections immediately."
The six of them swallowed, still feeling very nervous.
They were so nervous that all six of them called a doctor at night. They felt uncomfortable, with stomachaches, headaches, backaches, and pain in their missing limbs. In short, they felt pain everywhere.
Bai Shan followed Man Bao to get up at night and went to see them. After listening to them screaming for a while, he couldn't help but ask, "Isn't this too nervous?"
Manbao responded and gave each of them two injections. The six of them became drowsy and fell asleep hugging the quilt.
Bai Shan almost couldn't help yawning, but he held it back, holding the lantern and saying to Man Bao: "Let's go, go back to sleep."
After leaving the room, Bai Shan stood in the yard, looked back, and asked Man Bao, "Do you think it's okay?"
Manbao said, "Let's wait. This time we'll wait seven days. If the toxin in the pox is strong, it might break out tomorrow."
But the next day, none of the six of them showed any abnormalities. Apart from being a little nervous, they did not feel any discomfort. The same was true on the third day. Now, even the six of them could not help but question, "Master Zhou, did the pregnancy fail?"
Manbao comforted them and said, "Wait a few more days."
One of them couldn't help but scratched his arm and said, "The wound is all scabby."
It's more than just scabs, the scabs are about to fall off.
Manbao was quick to grab his hand, which was about to grab his arm, and asked with shining eyes, "Why are you grabbing my arm?"
"I, I feel a little itchy..."
Manbao went to look at his arm and saw that a pimple had appeared not far from where he had been vaccinated. It was the pimple he had just scratched.
Manbao's eyes lit up as he stared at it, "Did it just start?"
Soldier A couldn't help but ask, "This, this is a bug bite, right?"
Manbao reached out and touched his forehead, then touched the foreheads of others, "I think your temperature seems a little high."
The others immediately touched each other, and after a while they said, "That shouldn't be it? It feels about the same."
See you at 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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