African Entrepreneurship Records

  Chapter 103 "Big Killer"

  Malaria, a parasitic disease caused by Plasmodium infecting the human body, is the biggest problem facing the development of East African colonies.

  The daytime temperature in the East African colonies is maintained at around 20 degrees all year round, and in the coastal areas it is often maintained at around 30 degrees.

  It is very suitable for mosquitoes to survive, and malaria is transmitted through the bite of Anopheles mosquitoes.

  So in areas where mosquitoes are more rampant, malaria spreads more widely, especially in this era, people do not know that malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes.

   It is impossible to stop the spread of malaria from the root cause, and malaria is widespread in tropical to subtropical regions.

  In the early days, the East African colonies were developed, and the immigrants suffered a lot. Even under the mandatory order of the East African government, the sanitation and living environment were remodeled on a large scale.

   There was no effect, because in the early days, East Africa was a large wasteland with lush vegetation, especially in the rainy season, when the weather was hot and humid, and mosquitoes bred rapidly.

  The number of immigrants is still small when they first arrive, so it is impossible to transform the living environment quickly, so many people are recruited, and many are taken away by malaria and other tropical diseases.

   Fortunately, the immigrants who survived in the Far East and crossed the ocean have never seen such a storm.

  Just like the black slaves who went to the United States through the slave trade, they are all the able-bodied part of the blacks who have been screened by nature and man.

  The Far East immigrants who were able to survive to East Africa almost meant the same thing. Of course, in order to ensure the survival rate of the immigrants, the conditions for transporting ships were much better than those of black slaves.

   Then, with the slow increase of immigration and the development of East African urban villages, the living conditions in East Africa are also slowly improving.

  Under the command of Ernst, East Africa launched a large-scale mosquito eradication campaign, which has been going on since the beginning of the East African colony.

   Burn the grass and trees around the settlement site, fill in the puddles, reduce the living environment of mosquitoes, carry out biological control of the water bodies of the colonies, raise fish and frogs on a large scale, and reduce the number of mosquito larvae.

  With the initial scale of colony development, the quality of life of the colony has also been greatly improved, especially tropical diseases such as malaria and dengue fever, which rely on mosquitoes, have also been greatly reduced due to the development of colony mosquito control campaigns.

  In addition, the colony requires immigrants to pay attention to hygiene, strengthen the management of the water source of the colony, strictly prohibit the pollution of the water source, do not drink raw water, or simply filter and disinfect some water bodies.

   Feces are also centrally processed, and each village has built a new batch of public toilets to meet the needs of immigrants.

  For wild animals that may spread diseases, the management is even stricter. In the early days, due to the lack of food, immigrants were allowed to hunt to supplement food. After the colony's food production began, such behavior was prohibited.

  Ernst always believed that in his previous life in Africa, many diseases were completely caused by Africans themselves, such as AIDS, which was caused by Africans eating local primates.

Regardless of whether this statement is correct or not, all primates in East Africa (of course excluding humans, if they are indigenous, say otherwise.) have suffered, as long as they are within the scope of immigration activities (farmland, near roads). The baboons, monkeys, and orangutans that appeared were all brutally murdered, physically eliminated by the colony with muskets, then burned to ashes with fire, and finally buried (remote mountains, deep forests and prairie are not included, and reserved for the future as ecological protection areas).

   This is done to prevent some people from eating it. After all, the immigrants were hungry before. They had eaten the soil and bark. After living a hard life, they were afraid that someone would secretly give them extra meals.

  In this kind of strict defense, the living conditions of the East African colonies have naturally been greatly improved, and the sanitary conditions are better than any place in the same period, including Europe.

   When immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Paraguay arrived, East Africa had begun to take shape. They were all assigned to cities and villages that had been developed by Chinese immigrants to dilute the number of Chinese and prevent the formation of interest groups (such as ethnic groups) in the future.

  In addition, more and more Chinese and white women are intermarried (Armenia, Paraguay, etc.), and the non-government in the Middle East will subtly integrate various ethnic groups. As long as the cultural characteristics of immigrants from various countries except German culture are eliminated in the future, population integration will be completed.

  Although the living conditions of the current East African colonies are greatly improved, tropical diseases are compressed at a very low level at the same latitude.

   It is impossible to completely eliminate mosquitoes, and mosquitoes are the most important disease carriers. Therefore, in addition to continuing to strengthen sanitation and improvement activities, we must also use scientific means to eliminate mosquitoes.

   Again, people in today's era have absolutely no understanding of mosquitoes as disease spreaders.

  At the end of the 19th century, European scientists discovered that mosquitoes are the source of transmission of tropical diseases such as malaria, and launched research on mosquitoes.

  So now, only Ernst and the people in the East African colonies in the whole world believe that mosquitoes are the carriers of diseases such as malaria.

   It's not that Ernst is selfish and doesn't announce it to the world. The problem is that he also knows it through his previous life, and he is not a researcher or authority in this field. If he speaks out, he will probably be laughed out of his mouth.

  East Africa is different. Illiteracy is everywhere, and public opinion is in Ernst's own hands. Just make up a few non-existent experts and let his subordinates follow their own instructions.

In the beginning, people may be reluctant, after all, everything is mandatory, but gradually, with the improvement of sanitation and environment, diseases such as malaria have really decreased, and immigrants are happy to change (after all, no one wants to die).

  The benefits of using Chinese immigrants in the early stage were revealed, strong obedience, weak sense of resistance, influenced by the culture of the Far Eastern government, even if there were grievances, they would hold back first, so the sanitation improvement movement enforced by the East African colonial government was implemented smoothly.

And when immigrants from other countries arrive, this model has matured and has become the norm and daily life of the East African colonies. After all, the number of new immigrants is small at the beginning, so they can only follow suit. This way of paying attention to hygiene has become the iron law of the East African colonies. Everyone has to follow the rules.

   Immediately, immigrants from the German region will come to East Africa, and the Hexingen Consortium has sent good news.

  Funded by Ernst, in cooperation with various German universities, the result of joint research, pyrethrins were extracted.

  As long as follow-up, according to the mosquito coils in the previous life, follow the gourd painting, hire professionals to design the machines for the production of mosquito coils, and mass-produce mosquito coils, the "big killer" of mosquitoes in tropical areas.

   This will undoubtedly once again improve the living conditions of the East African colonies and further reduce the spread of diseases such as malaria.

  In addition, the production of mosquito coils can bring new wealth to the Hexingen consortium, and East Africa itself is the place where pyrethrum is produced, which can further form a perfect closed industrial loop.

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