The United States is a world superpower, not only high-tech and finance are at the forefront of the world, but even agriculture has been nested into an industrial and group system, upgrading from an agricultural power to an industrial agricultural empire.

Today, the United States only uses less than 0.1% of the world's population and produces 1/5 of the world's agricultural crops.

However, so many agricultural crops cannot be digested by their own markets, and most of them still need to be exported overseas. Once exported, the price fluctuations of commodities will affect the income of the entire industry. Especially for large farms after enterpriseization, both profits and losses will be rapidly amplified.

In order to avoid risks, the national level has issued the "New Agricultural Law" that violates the rules of the WTO Agricultural Agreement and its own concession commitments to increase investment and subsidies to agriculture.

For individual farmers, what they need to do is to strengthen scientific management and technology. Relying on several university institutes in North Carolina, we actively invest in scientific research, so that industries and scientific research are closely integrated and interdependent.

Morton's pig farm is the product of the joint efforts of these two parties.

Because of the implementation of the New Agricultural Law, he moved his family to North Carolina and won the pig farm. He has made a lot of money in recent years, with a net revenue of more than $100,000 each year, becoming one of the most revenue pig farms in the state.

This afternoon, he was planning a project to expand the pig farm. Unexpectedly, his body temperature rose slowly after only a few hours.

The incubation period of ordinary influenza is about 2-4 days, and some cases will have a small increase or decrease. H1n1 is slightly longer than ordinary influenza and is more unstable. It is possible from 0-7 days, and there are even cases where the incubation period exceeds 10 days in extreme cases.

At the same time, h1n1 also has a large number of asymptomatic infections. Although these people have no symptoms, they are still highly contagious, with the number of infections exceeding 10 days.

But in terms of diagnosis, especially in the initial symptom stage, there is no difference between h1n1 and ordinary influenza.

Morton's family's residence is in the middle of the pig farm, a house that is larger than the villa Qi Jing and the other two stayed in. As soon as they entered the door, they heard a cough, and the frequency and intensity were far higher than that of the common cold.

"I coughed so badly, it doesn't sound very good."

"Hope is a mild disease. If it really develops into pneumonia..." Qi Jing turned his head and looked at Xiao Morton, "Is there a hospital around here?"

"No, the nearest one will drive more than 40 kilometers to Lehn Town, where there is a hospital."

"Where is the family doctor?"

"I've called, but he said it was normal flu and I'll get better after sleeping for two days."

"Don't come?"

Little Morton shook his head.

The house was still the same three-story layout. Morton was lying in his room in pajamas. His body temperature was just 39.3 degrees and he was coughing continuously. The high fever made him tremble a little, and the blanket was wrapped tightly around his body and curled up.

"Dad, I'll call them." Little Morton let the person in.

"He, they?" Morton turned around and looked at Qi Jing with discomfort, "What's the use of finding them? You need a doctor!"

"They are doctors!"

"Yellow people? They are doctors in the United States, and how many yellow people are there?" Although Morton's body temperature is very high, his mind is still clear. He can tell the identity and ability of the three people by age and skin color. "You don't think about it..."

Although he accepted Qi Jing's request for a visit, the visit itself was a fee, money is money, and ideas are ideas, which are two different things. Accepting them to visit does not affect his subjective feelings about yellow people.

And now I have to face my sick body, Morton couldn't believe these three guys coming from across the ocean.

Compared with doctors in big cities, he certainly has prejudice against his family doctors. But no matter what, the old man is also a serious doctor with a family doctor practice certificate. Compared with yellow people who have no three, the best and the worst is the right one.

"Sorry, your family doctor believes it is regular flu, so he can't come."

Qi Jing's tube was not that much. She put on a stethoscope and stepped forward and pressed the stethoscope on Morton's chest. Morton wanted to stop him, but unfortunately, his muscles were sore under the high fever that he couldn't use any effort.

Once the muscles of the whole body are used greatly, not only will he feel pain, but his body shaking will also make his already dizzy head even more dizzy.

This is not the dizziness of ordinary flu, and the discomfort is comparable to the motion sickness caused by motion sickness. If this continues, he will definitely be unable to help vomiting out all the things he eats at night.

"Breathe!" Qi Jing said, "Breathe!!!"

Morton was helpless, looking at him like a glass of yellow urine when he was extremely dehydrated. He knew that it could quench his thirst, but he had to struggle repeatedly to reflect his civilization and aloofness. Until his throat was dry and smoked, he reluctantly pinched his nose and drank it.

I moistened my mouth and finally had to scold me "It's really smelly".

Qi Jing felt the same way. If he hadn't known the terrifying spreading speed of h1n1, he wouldn't have come here to be looked down upon by him. But the difference is that he had already been mentally prepared, so he didn't feel much disgusted when he was on the stage.

Even if I know that the other party is really "stinky", I will shake my head and go over.

"It seems a little wet when you inhale!" Qi Jing took off his stethoscope and looked back at them, "I feel like bronchopneumonia."

"Isn't this a fever? Why is it going so fast?"

Xu Jiakang was a little disbelief and followed him up to do an auscultation. Morton's breathing sound was indeed thicker than that of ordinary people, but Qi Jing's so-called wet rosy sound seemed to be out of the question: "Is there a rhyme? Why didn't I hear it?"

"The right lower lung is in the middle of inhalation." Qi Jing described it very specifically, "very light and has a short duration."

Listening to breathing sounds is a basic skill that emergency doctors must have. In this regard, Xu Jiakang is confident. If the other person is replaced by another person, he will definitely auscultate repeatedly and finally refute what he has heard.

But in front of him was Qi Jing.

Since meeting this guy, Xu Jiakang's career has been almost in his shadow. Others say that the patient has a wet harp sound, and he will carefully verify the result, but if Qi Jing said that the patient has a wet harp sound, what Xu Jiakang needs to verify is his ability to auscult.

This time it was obviously a failure again. He didn't hear any wet sounds. Did Qi Jing install a detector in his ear?

Xu Jiakang was obviously a little unwilling to accept it: "The breathing frequency is quite fast. Lao Ji, why don't you try it?"

Ji Qing looked at Xiaokangkang, who was a little confused, and looked at Qi Jing again, shook his head gently and said, "You both have heard of it, so I'll forget it. What we need to judge now is the nature of pneumonia."

Xu Jiakang's self-esteem is not so easy to surrender, and he also wants to find Ji Qing to make a "fair" judgment. He has to lose even if he loses. Unexpectedly, the other party skipped the process directly and affirmed Qi Jing's opinion as soon as he spoke.

Having come to this point, he had no other choice but to say: "Does he have a high fever chill... does his muscles hurt?"

Morton nodded.

"There are muscle pain and fatigue..." Xu Jiakang rolled his eyes again, "There are also jealous. In addition, this season, I guess it should be the flu."

"The respiratory symptoms of the flu are not serious, but he seems a little different." Ji Qing looked at the pile of paper towels beside Morton's bed and the violent coughing that exploded from time to time in his ears, and said, "It's really not easy to judge without checking the blood image."

"The onset is urgent, and the condition is progressing so quickly." Qi Jing thought about it and decided to use the name before h1n1, "It reminded me of the people who had been infected with swine flu."

Ji Qing and Xu Jiakang have no special memories of swine flu. In their early years, domestic news reports on the United States were very limited, and it was impossible to get in touch with these things. But Morton, who is over 50 years old, is different. He is a person who has experienced these things.

"Humans are infected with swine flu?"

"Do you remember 1976?"

Morton was silent for a while and nodded weakly: "I happened to be in the army at that time and heard about Dicksburg. It is said that more than 200 infections were infected, and finally people died."

"At that time, it was determined that the swine flu virus infected the human body. After checking, it was found that it was a subtype of h1n1." Qi Jing paused and looked at several farms outside the window. "There are indeed pig farms around Dixburgh, but the scale is similar to yours."

Compared with the spread and harm of the past, the reason why Morton remembered this outbreak in Dixburg is that it was the subsequent swine flu vaccine.

In order to ensure that the country will not repeat the mistakes of the previous pandemics and to reduce the number of deaths, the US zf strongly advocated the public for the injection of swine flu virus vaccine. But at that time, a rare reaction occurred after the vaccine was injected: Green-Barre syndrome, so the vaccine was resisted to varying degrees. (1)

"It's not really swine flu..." Morton obviously remembered some bad memories: "I avoided mad cow disease and avian flu, but I didn't expect that swine flu was waiting for me."

"Swine flu is highly contagious, but the severity rate is not high and the mortality rate is also very low." Qi Jing first set a prerequisite and then emphasized, "But Mr. Morton, your symptoms develop very quickly. I think it is necessary to go to the hospital. If I insist on staying at home, it is difficult for me to guarantee that it will not continue to develop."

Even if Morton couldn't believe Qi Jing, his body would not lie.

He has been born for so many years and has never felt so uncomfortable. He is like falling into the cold quagmire, and his whole body is trembling and unable to exert his strength: "Okay, go to the hospital."

......

Lehn Town is in the southeast corner of the pig farm, a distance of 40 kilometers.

Little Morton was responsible for driving, using a Ford pickup truck at home, and Qi Jing and Xu Jiakang also went to the hospital. Ji Qing stayed in the pig farm and found Zelin and Steve whom he had met before to disinfect the pig farm.

Swine flu is a common disease that is transmitted between pigs, and pig farms have always been equipped with medical alcohol and disinfectant sprays.

In addition to disinfection, they are also responsible for teaching some personal protection knowledge about influenza and distributing masks. However, the process is not simple. In addition to the many difficulties encountered during the mission, the Morton family is not just Morton.

"Are you pregnant?"

A woman of 40 stood in front of him and nodded: "It's been four months."

"Then this little girl beside you..."

"It's my little daughter."

"Is there anyone else?"

"It's gone, her sister has returned to her hometown in Texas last week."

"Texas? Hometown?"

"Well, we moved in a few years ago. The second daughter and her husband work in Texas, so they have been living there." The woman said. "Last month she took a vacation and came to see us. She stayed for more than half a month before she returned."

Ji Qing sighed and continued to ask, "You have lived here with Morton these days?"

"Absolutely." The woman was a little surprised, "We are a family, and of course we live together."

"Did you have a cough?"

"This..." the woman pointed to herself and said, "It was a little bit just now, but it's okay."

As soon as she finished speaking, she couldn't help coughing, which was much lighter than Morton, but Ji Qing's face became heavier after hearing this. She looked down at the little girl and asked, "What about you?"

The little girl recognized her child, hid behind her mother, and kept shaking her head: "No."

"Okay, just don't."

If Qi Jing said that humans are infected with swine flu, the range of high-risk groups is much larger than that of ordinary flu. Pregnant women and young children are both prone to high-risk groups of severe cases, and once flu symptoms appear, it will become very troublesome.

Ji Qing distributed masks to them and told them to stay in the room and not go out as much as possible. Then he called Qi Jing by phone.

But the phones over there have been wired.

At this time, Qi Jing's phone was connecting with a person from Washington, DC: "Sephew, it's me."

"It's late, I'm going to sleep." Sipher still didn't like him very much and kept saying, "If anything happens, come and find me when you return to Washington, DC."

"I have something to do now, something big!"

"I'm old and don't answer work calls at night." Sipher said that and was about to hang up the phone.

Unexpectedly, Qi Jing spoke very quickly and the volume was not small. Even if Sever took off the microphone, he could hear it very clearly: "What did you say just now? Say it again?"

"The owner of a pig farm next to Lehn developed flu-like symptoms. The course of the disease progressed very quickly, with high fever, chills, fatigue, muscle pain and redness." Qi Jing said a lot of symptoms and finally ended with "pneumonia". "I auscultation and found that there was a mild wet rosy in the lower right lung, and I'm afraid it was already pneumonia."

Sipher was not interested in what he said before, the only thing he cared about was pneumonia: "Pneumonia? Are you in the hospital now?"

“It’s on the road.”

Sifer always felt that Qi Jing knew something, but because North Carolina's situation was not serious, he never picked it up. Now after hearing this call, he had to doubt the judgment of the yellow-skinned young man.

Of course, the facts are facts, and the necessary doubts are still needed now. Siph did not immediately conclude: "Why do you say it's pneumonia before you go to the hospital for a video? It's because of the wet rosy?"
Chapter completed!