City's Best Divine Doctor-Chapter 1537 - 1536: Head Plague

For this mother and daughter, it’s truly too tragic. The father and two sons all died from the infectious disease.

Now, this little girl is showing symptoms of the incubation period of the epidemic. He had noticed it just a moment ago.

If he hadn’t come here, this little girl might have left this world like her father.

"Ye Qiu, what should we do?" Zhou Wenting asked.

She really thought Ye Qiu was relying on herbal soups and acupuncture to treat these patients, but that was just a cover for his real method.

"I’ll go in with the little girl to treat her, and you stay here to comfort this auntie."

"No herbal soup?" Zhou Wenting asked.

"No need."

Ye Qiu went in with the little girl, letting her lie down and close her eyes. After about ten minutes, when Ye Qiu came out, he said, "The little girl will be fine after she wakes up."

The girl’s mother hurriedly went inside to see her daughter sleeping, and when she came out, she found that the two had already left.

In the past few days, the mother and daughter had been drinking mountain herbs to prevent getting infected, yet those two people came and left again just like that.

"Ye Qiu, why is this disease so severe? Is it caused by a virus or bacteria?" Zhou Wenting asked.

"It should be a virus."

"So is this considered a plague?"

"According to folklore, it would be called a plague."

Historically, many areas have experienced plagues due to war, climate changes, and so on, leading to large-scale death of humans and livestock.

According to some scientific explanations, this could be Earth’s way to control the population of humans and animals, preventing large-scale reproduction.

However, with the advancement of technology and medicine, it’s almost impossible for large-scale plagues like those in ancient Huaxia or the Middle Ages of Europe to occur.

But occasionally, plagues still break out, causing deaths among humans and animals, and inciting panic.

In this case, Ye Qiu didn’t think it appeared without reason; there must be other causes. But where is the source of this epidemic virus?

Only by truly finding it can the epidemic be controlled, and medical scientists and pharmacists can quickly develop effective medicines.

Although Ye Qiu’s medical skills are impressive, and he can absorb those viruses, the number of people he can treat is limited; it’s not limitless.

Ye Qiu and Zhou Wenting then moved on to visit other homes, finding many old houses uninhabited, either because the people had died or were taken down the mountain for quarantine and treatment.

After traveling for a long while, they finally saw a household with smoke rising, and hurried over. Upon reaching the door, Ye Qiu called out, "Is anyone inside?"

After calling several times with no response, could it be that something happened to the residents?

Ye Qiu and Zhou Wenting quickly pushed the door open, and upon entering, they smelled an unpleasant odor and saw an elderly woman, about sixty or seventy, lying on the ground inside.

Could this elderly woman have passed away?

As Zhou Wenting, scared, hurried to go down the mountain for help, Ye Qiu checked her pulse and said, "Wenting, the elderly woman is still alive."

When Ye Qiu and Zhou Wenting helped the old lady sit up, they noticed something was off about her condition—she was showing signs of fever, a clear indication of the incubation or outbreak stage of the infectious disease.

Zhou Wenting brought a bowl of hot water and let the old lady drink it, after which she woke up and upon seeing the two young people, urgently said, "You should leave quickly; there’s a demon in this mountain."

A demon? What kind of demon?

Ye Qiu and Zhou Wenting wondered.

"Old lady, are you feeling unwell?" Ye Qiu was puzzled, unaware of how Director Wei had arranged things here; this village still had residents, and in the old lady’s situation, if someone died here without anyone knowing, everyone should be mandatorily taken down for quarantine and treatment. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

However, given the mix of ethnic minorities living here, the policies might be different.

The old lady looked at them but said nothing, noticing they weren’t wearing white lab coats like doctors, and thinking these two were brave to come here.

So many people in the village have died, yet they still came.

"It’s head plague; there was an outbreak in my mother’s generation, and now it’s happening again," the old lady said weakly.

She was speaking a local dialect of the Han people, which was more comprehensible than the dialect of the local Miao people.

Head plague? It happened before?

Ye Qiu was very surprised.

"Old lady, we’ll take you down the mountain with us."

Down there, the medical facilities are much better, and there are people to take care of you.

So Ye Qiu thought it best to take her down first.

"I’m not going, I’m not going," the old lady firmly said.

She had already been taken down for quarantine by those doctors, but soon after, she sneaked back up, not expecting to get infected with this disease now.

"You’re already infected, and there are medicines and nurses to care for you down the mountain," Ye Qiu said.

"I’m not going. Let me die here," the old lady insisted.

It was clear she understood her situation.

Ye Qiu looked at Zhou Wenting, who decided to go down the mountain to get help, preferably calling village officials to persuade the old lady to come down.

While Zhou Wenting hurriedly went down the mountain for help, Ye Qiu observed the old lady’s condition. Her complexion was also dark, and her energy was low. When infected and in the incubation to the outbreak transition stage, cases would generally resemble hers.

If it worsens, there could be high fever, body heat, limb pain, phlegm; worse still could be coughing blood and a lack of energy.

"Old lady, where is your family?" Ye Qiu assumed her family had died from the disease, like the previous mother and daughter.

After all, over thirty people had died in the village, a terrifying number for such a small community.

And this was happening indiscriminately to men, women, young, and old alike.

"I have no family," the old lady said.

No family?

Had the old lady been living alone all this time? Ye Qiu had noticed a sign saying "Five Guarantees Household" on the door, suggesting the old lady might have been living here alone all along.