Chapter 2305 Difference
After hearing what they said, Manbao himself became a little uncertain. She simply took his pulse, looked at his tongue and eyes, and touched his forehead before saying with certainty, "You do have a fever."
Soldier A instantly became nervous and asked, "So, am I going to get pox?"
Manbao nodded, "It's probably a pimple. Don't scratch it. It might get contagious and leave scars."
The others quietly sat a little further away, and only after they sat out did they realize that they had also been vaccinated, and that being close or far away made no difference.
So they sat back down quietly.
Manbao glanced at them and said, "It's better to stay away from them. You should eat in your own rooms recently and don't visit other people's rooms unless necessary."
So Manbao drove the other five people back to their own rooms.
Because it was just a low-grade fever and there was only one pimple at the moment, Manbao did not prescribe any medicine. Instead, he planned to wait for the pimple to break out and then prescribe medicine based on the condition and pulse. As a result, they waited until the evening and did not see any other pimples break out, only a persistent low-grade fever.
The next day, even his fever subsided.
Then the rash that Manbao suspected was smallpox gradually subsided. In the end, the red spot on the top faded away, leaving only a small lump that had shrunk by half.
Manbao reached out and pressed it. Based on her experience, it was definitely smallpox rash, not a bug bite at all.
But... why is there only one?
Manbao felt his pulse and found a little internal heat, but it was not serious. She thought for a moment and said to him, "Drink more water."
Soldier A: "Don't you need medicine?"
"No need," Manbao retracted his hand and said, "Just drink more hot water and relax."
Soldier A breathed a sigh of relief, then raised his voice slightly, "Is this considered a pox?"
Manbao thought for a moment and said, "Let's wait a couple of days and see. If there's no more high fever or pox, then the outbreak should be over."
Soldier A looked at Zhou Man in disbelief, "Does this count as a pox?"
"Whether it counts or not, we'll know later."
Whether the pox vaccine provides immunity to smallpox requires further testing.
Manbao packed up his things and was about to go out when Zhou Liru knocked on the door and called out, "Auntie, number three has a pimple on his arm too."
Manbao went over to take a look immediately.
Soldier A hesitated for a moment and then followed over to see.
Since they all had acne, Manbao didn't stop them.
Number Three did get pimples, and a patch grew right near the place where he had been vaccinated. Manbao counted them and found there were twelve. He felt a little itchy, but he only had one hand and couldn't scratch it. He couldn't help rubbing it on the quilt, but Zhou Liru stopped him and wouldn't let him.
Although he didn't mind having scars on his arm, after all, he had lost his other arm, and there was a bowl-sized scar on his shoulder, so a few more acne scars wouldn't be a big deal.
But Zhou Liru refused. She said, "The more you scratch it, the more it will get. And what if the pus and skin from the pox get stuck to the quilt and spread the infection?"
Manbao looked at it and asked, "I haven't seen it this morning."
Number Three said, "They just popped up all of a sudden. I just felt itchy, and when I looked down, there were five or six of them. That's all there was in just a short while."
Manbao was a little worried when he heard this, so he touched his temperature and found that it was not high, but he was still worried.
It takes a process for the fever to go from low to high after the acne breaks out.
She nodded calmly and reassured him, "It's okay. We'll keep an eye on the temperature. If you feel dizzy, nauseous, or otherwise uncomfortable, let us know and I'll prescribe medicine for you."
Number Three worried, "Aren't you going to prescribe medicine now?"
"You don't need to take medicine yet," Manbao said, "Let the rash break out first. If the temperature is too high, I'll prescribe medicine for you."
Zhou Man explained it very clearly, and both No. 3 and Soldier A breathed a sigh of relief and agreed.
As a result, by the evening, he still had a low fever, and No. 5 also had a pimple, also on the arm.
Manbao recorded their pulse conditions one by one and became thoughtful.
Bai Shan poured her a cup of tea and asked, "How is it?"
"The situation... is very good." Manbao stared at the pulse and said, "It's unexpectedly good. This is a bit similar to the smallpox vaccination we used, but also very different."
Bai Shan sat next to her and watched, "How are they the same?"
"The pox we've vaccinated, whether it's the human pox or the cowpox, has a much lower fever rate than naturally transmitted pox. Previously, when we vaccinated against human pox, 40% of people had a low-grade fever throughout the entire process, without a high fever." Man Bao pondered, "The difference is that this time the pox seems to be developing very slowly, and the fever is lower."
“Is this a good thing or a bad thing?”
Manbao shook his head. "I don't know. The first person who got the pox actually had his fever go away today. And the pox on his arm has actually matured. There's no hard spot when you press it. Generally speaking, when it looks like this, the pox is almost healed."
But he only produced one.
Manbao sighed: "We can only wait, time will tell us the reason."
Bai Shan nodded and said to Man Bao, "There's good news from the front. The army has approached Kucha. General Ashina has repelled the armies of the Chuyue and Chumi Turkic tribes."
"Aren't they coming back soon?"
Bai Shan shook his head. "Not so fast. I went to the Protectorate today to discuss the next batch of people to be sent. When I went to the army to select people, I heard that General Ashina was attacking the northern border of Kucha from the west of Yanqi and is now attacking Hecheng."
Manbao tried hard to think of the map of the Western Regions that she had seen in Chongwenguan, but after thinking for a long time she still couldn't remember where Hecheng was.
Bai Shan smiled and said, "It's not on the map. It's a gateway to the northern part of Kucha. If we capture that city, we can go straight to the Kucha royal city."
It sounds very impressive.
Manbao asked, "Have you chosen someone?"
Bai Shan nodded and said, "I have chosen them, but the people selected from the army are either old or have many old injuries. They are no longer suitable for serving in the army. I can only choose those who look strong."
Manbao nodded. The first batch of six people had already met with this, so she didn't have much hope for the next ones. However, being able to choose for herself was better than always having people forced into her by the Protectorate.
Manbao didn't know that General Guo had once thought of giving them a worse group of people, or simply not giving them any.
Of course, she never got the chance to find out.
Over the next two days, the rest of the people began to break out with smallpox, but Soldier A did not have a fever for two days. The pox on his hand gradually subsided and formed a scab. After peeling off the surface layer, it looked like a normal smallpox scar.
What Manbao didn't expect was that No. 2 only had twelve pimples, which gradually subsided after a low fever for a day and a half, and the pimples also tended to fall off after maturing.
The situation of No. 5 is similar to that of No. 1, Soldier A.
Everyone was shocked. Manbao excitedly pulled Bai Shan and said, "If this is the case, everyone in the world can be vaccinated against smallpox."
I'm going to bed early tonight, so I'll see you tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)
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