"Boss..." Hong Luoss forced a smile, "I'm almost out of here... forgive me... I can't go through the last journey with you..."

Bridge Morgan received the best education since he was a child and could not be said to be proficient in medical knowledge, but he knew that malaria is an infection, but it must be carried and bitten by mosquitoes. Therefore, he dared to contact Red Rolls now, not because of the depth of his feelings, but because he knew that there was no danger of life.

"Stop talking..." Bridgemorgan is usually extremely strong, but now he is a little choked, "It's my fault. I shouldn't have brought you here. Don't worry, I will take good care of your family."

Although Red Rolls' family, although incomparable to Bridgemorgen, was considered a middle class, but after he became an adult, his family had fallen into poverty. If it weren't for Bridgemorgen's support, he would have long become a poor man.

"Thank you, boss..." Red Rolls closed his eyes exhausted. He was tortured by malaria just now. Now he is really tired. He just wants to close his eyes and have a good sleep. "Thank you for taking care of me all the time... I'm sleepy... I have to have a good sleep..."

Red Rolls' eyelids slowly closed, and his breathing became weaker and weaker. Bridgemorgen watched him die in his arms, and his sadness finally couldn't hold it in his mouth, and tears surged out like a tide.

Pang Xiaonan witnessed the whole process on the side. He wanted to go up and help Nandegrad rescue Red Rous, but he was also subject to unnecessary equipment and medicine. The primitive jungle was full of dangers. Even if he took action to temporarily suppress the spread of malaria, it would only aggravate Red Rous's pain. It would be better to let him suffer long pain than short pain.

Totecchasky sighed and said, "This young man is so despair. Why did he get malaria in this ghost place?"

"You have any research on malaria?" Pang Xiaonan looked at Totekchasky curiously, a marine biologist who seemed to have a lot of experience in microorganisms.

"It's not just research," Lima Oda added, "My teacher was a microbiology expert back then. She almost won the science award for her research results in treating malaria. No, it's not that she almost won the award, but she didn't go to receive it."

Totecchaski waved his hand and said, "I am worthy of that award. My research results are just developed on the achievements of others. Moreover, the results I have developed are only to prevent and inhibit malaria, and have no substantial therapeutic effect. I am embarrassed to win the award."

"What do you mean? You are a marine biologist, how did you go to study malaria?" Pang Xiaonan was puzzled. Is it rare that scientists should not concentrate on one field?

"Why are you so unconscious?" Lima Oda pointed to her breasts. "According to your reasoning, I am a paleontologist, why did I learn from a marine biologist? Do you just can't figure it out?"

"I understand, you are all biologists, and biology does not distinguish between national boundaries," Pang Xiaonan snapped his fingers, "Oh, no, it is different from species, you all study all creatures, but everyone's final expertise and belongings are different!"

"You are smart!" Lima Xiaotian patted Pang Xiaonan's shoulder happily, thinking that the child was teachable.

"Actually, I first studied microorganisms," Totecchaski touched his nose. "But later I felt that the biodiversity in the sea was more fascinating, and my inspiration for microorganisms was exhausted, so I focused on marine life."

"What are your achievements in malaria?" Pang Xiaonan only knew that the marine life textbook written by Totekchasky was very famous, and he had no idea where his contribution to malaria was. At this moment, someone in the team died of malaria infection, which deepened his curiosity about malaria.

"While they buried the body, I will tell you about the history of malaria and some of my achievements." Totecchasky found a big tree, sat down against the big tree, wiped the sweat beads on his forehead, and walked for too long, and was indeed a little tired. He asked Lima Oda for a kettle, opened the cap and took a sip of water, and began to talk:

In the human family of infectious diseases, malaria is an ancient infectious disease, and the long-term evil has lasted beyond your imagination. The parasite responsible for spreading it has developed from single-celled animals. After a long evolution, this parasite infects reptiles, birds, mammals, and later infected primates, and later transmitted to humans through primates.

This parasite is called malaria parasite, and the infectious disease it causes is called malaria. It appears with the origin of humans and harms humans in ten thousand years. The number of malaria diseases worldwide exceeds 200 million every year.

Because it is too ancient, there are many mysteries in the details of the origin of malaria.

It is unknown what primates infect malaria to humans. There are different hypotheses on how they are transmitted. In short, there are many issues that have no consensus on the origin of malaria.

Today, people in temperate areas do not feel deeply about malaria. But the unavoidable fact is that malaria is still rampant in tropical and subtropical areas. During the worst period of malaria, about 700 million people are infected with malaria and about 7 million people die every year around the world.

What makes malaria so rampant? The initiator of malaria is the parasite, and the annoying mosquitoes are the accomplices of the parasite. Statistics have found that 80 species of anopheles can spread malaria.

A mosquito bites a malaria patient and it is infected with the malaria parasite. If the mosquito continues to bite the second person, the malaria parasite will enter the second person's body. The malaria parasite first enters the liver and then matures into the blood. Symptoms of malaria usually appear at this time: at mild cases, high fever, chills, headache, nausea, vomiting, anemia, and death at worst.

If other mosquitoes bite a second person, they will infect Malaria parasites and continue to "inject" the Malaria parasites to more people. This cycle continues to torture humans...

Not only that, malaria can also be transmitted through blood, such as through pregnant women to the fetus. What’s more complicated is that as the source of malaria transmission, there are more than one type of malaria parasite. Currently, there are five types of malaria parasites that can infect malaria.

It is this complex and stubborn infectious disease, which wanders in the entire human history in amid the buzzing sound of mosquitoes.

Based on the above reasons, malaria was included in the list of infectious diseases that humans decided to eradicate. However, this process was not smooth.

60 years ago, the World Health Assembly launched the global malaria eradication project, four years earlier than the global smallpox eradication project.

70 years ago, an insecticide called ddt (also known as "DDT") began to be used. By 1952, the number of malaria infections dropped to 350 million, but it was undoubtedly still a very large number.

After the global malaria eradication project was launched, it quickly became the most important activity of the WHO. According to statistics, the investment in malaria eradication project accounts for more than 30% of the WHO's disposable funds. This far exceeds the smallpox eradication project. It can be said that the malaria eradication project was the largest resource investment at that time. Looking back, the reason for the poor progress of this project is also obvious.

At that time, antimalarial strategies relied heavily on a single tool - spraying ddt from door to door. Doing so could indeed control the spread of Anopheles mosquitoes to malaria, but people seriously ignored it and continued to look for more effective antimalarial strategies. It was generally felt that humans had mastered tools for eradicating malaria. Unfortunately, mosquitoes quickly became resistant to insecticides.

There is another major “bug” in this global malaria eradication project.

The project has made progress mainly in countries where the economy is developing rapidly and the Anopheles breeding season is not that long. A key area, the tropical region, has been forgotten. In these tropical countries, malaria is highly endemic, and the annual breeding season is the Anopheles breeding season, and the economy is backward, and the prospects for eradicating malaria are extremely unclear. They are actually excluded from the project.

Relying on insecticides, mosquitoes are resistant to drugs; they are called the Global Malaria Eradication Project, but they are not "global". After several years of implementation, the project progresses are becoming increasingly difficult. As a result, the malaria eradication project was left unresolved and abandoned.

Totecchaski turned his head and looked at Pang Xiaonan and said, "Next, it's my turn to appear."

"I found a Chinese prescription called Malaria Preparation Preparation in ancient books. It mentioned several medicinal materials that can treat malaria. So I specifically studied those medicinal materials and finally found that Artemisia green is a magical medicinal material that can effectively treat malaria."

Totecchasky pulled up an unknown grass on the ground and put it in his hand to play with it.

"It is with this discovery that the teacher was awarded the highest scientific research award in China." Oda Lima added excitedly.

"No, no, no," Totecchaski quickly corrected, "I am not worthy because my research has ended here, and at the beginning, the clinical effect of Artemisia vera was not satisfactory and the inhibition rate was not high enough. At this time, I stopped the research, and others began to continue this difficult problem."

"But no matter what, teacher, you have played a key role in the treatment of malaria." Lima Oda is still talking about Totekchasky's achievements.

"The revolution has not been successful yet, and everyone still needs to work hard," Totekchasky leaned against the trees and looked deep in the dense forest. "At present, some countries and regions around the world have achieved eradication of malaria. However, the haze of malaria still lingers heavily over tropical countries. More than 90% of the death tolls each year occur in the tropics, and the environment we are in is a typical tropical environment."

Totekchasky stretched his legs and his neck fell back, making a crackling sound of bone movement, and then straightened his waist and said with some concern: "The WHO Global Malaria Technology Strategy has set an ambitious goal: to reduce malaria incidence by at least 90% and malaria mortality by at least 90%. The global malaria death toll has been reduced by half since 20 years ago. But last year's Global Malaria Report pointed out that the pace of progress in the fight against malaria has slowed down in recent years and may miss the key target. The reasons behind this are very complicated."

Totecchaski looked at Lima Oda beside him and said, "I am my most proud student. I believe you have some understanding of malaria. Let me tell you what are the reasons."

Lima Oda nodded and took over the topic, "The problem of insecticide resistance has come back. The use of insecticides is one of the important malaria control strategies. In the past 10 years, 27 countries have reported that mosquito resistance has appeared in all major insecticide categories. In addition, the problem of antimalarial drugs has also appeared again. In Bharat and surrounding areas, Plasmodium falciparum has shown resistance to drugs for treating malaria."

Lima Oda moved her butt to make herself sit more comfortable: "The malaria vaccine is highly expected, but the development process is long. 30 years ago, the candidate malaria vaccine strain rts,s entered clinical trials. To date, rts,s is the first and only vaccine in the world that has been shown to significantly reduce malaria and severe malaria in young tropical children in large-scale clinical trials."

"This vaccine is still not 100% effective, and it can only be said to have achieved part of the purpose of fighting malaria." Although Totekchasky withdrew from the research on malaria, he still pays great attention to the cure progress of malaria. "For tens of thousands of years, malaria has developed into a chronic infectious disease in human society, which is stubborn and difficult to treat and cannot be cured for a long time. However, some regional successes have shown that eradicating malaria is completely feasible. Looking back on the twists and turns of human anti-malaria history, the main lessons are: the global fight against infectious diseases cannot be discounted; it cannot rely solely on a certain tool, and it must be multi-pronged, and at the same time pay attention to the potential of Chinese medicine; we should constantly look for newer and more powerful weapons, especially vaccines. Malaria was included in the list of infectious diseases 65 years ago, and I hope that humans will no longer be far away from truly eliminating it."

Over there, the Black Mamba Guard was about to start burying Red Rous. Totecchasky walked over and said to Booktonlin: "Major, please be sure to bury his body tightly, because there are malaria parasites in his body. If they are bitten by other mosquitoes and bite them again, we will also be infected with malaria."

"Well, I know, Professor Totecchaski, we think so too." Booktonlin responded politely. In fact, he had already made plans in his mind. The mechanism of malaria transmission is not unfamiliar to those of them who have been living in the jungle for many years.

Bridge Morgan is now sitting under a big tree, and he still needs to digest the death of his assistant. He allows the Black Mamba guards to deal with Red Rouse's body, no longer interfere, and there is no initial emotional fluctuation. As the heir to the large consortium, he knows to restrain his feelings.

Lima Oda said to Pang Xiaonan: "Bridge Morgan's angry look was so terrifying."

"As men, there will always be times when they explode." Pang Xiaonan understood Bridge Morgan's mood very well. After all, he was his closest assistant and everyone would lose control.

"But I'm very disgusted with what he said," Lima Oda is a scientist. She can be said to love and hate capitalists. Without capitalists, science often cannot carry out projects, but with capitalists, scientists' many research directions will be restricted. "It seems that he is the god of our entire team, and everyone has to serve him."

"You are right to say that," Pang Xiaonan shrugged. "Without his funding, our operation will not be done at all. Strictly speaking, it was him who asked us to protect you. If any of you are hurt, it is our Black Mamba's dereliction of duty."

"But many situations cannot be blamed on you," Oda Lima was reasonable. "After all, we are facing unknown worlds, unknown enemies, and unknown dangers, and you don't know how to deal with them."

"With that being said, we have assumed the responsibility of protection after all," Pang Xiaonan looked at Bridge Morgan with a dull look. "He was right. I feel guilty if I didn't do my duty to protect you."

"You guys do your best." Lima Oda patted Pang Xiaonan's shoulder, stood up, and moved her limbs and waist.

Burying Red Rolls, Booktonlin also told Wu Zhen, who was responsible for filling the soil, Wu Yongqiang and Davao Khan, "put the soil firmer to prevent mosquitoes from entering."

So the three of them jumped up and down on the land where Red Rous was buried, stepping heavily on the soil, making a "bang" sound.

Booktonlin looked at the team members who were standing in groups or sitting on the grass and spoke, "Dear members of the scientific expedition team, as well as members of the Black Mamba Guard, I just saw that one of our team members was bitten by mosquitoes and was infected with malaria. Unfortunately, he passed away. So in this jungle of New Bloss, any kind of injury may be fatal. Next, I will ask our medical officer to apply anti-mosquito potions to everyone, please cooperate."

Booktonlin remembered something and added: "Also, try to cover the skin of the body with long sleeves. Those with long sleeves should be worn, and try not to expose their necks to prevent mosquitoes from biting."

Nandegrad walked to everyone in turn, dipped a specific ointment on his fingers, and then applied it to everyone's neck and hands. Everyone felt a burning pain. This was not the kind of cool mosquito repellent perfume.

When he applied Professor Li Sanming, Professor Li Sanming instinctively shrank his neck, frowned and asked, "Doctor Nandegrad, what kind of potion are you? Why is it so hot? Is it chili oil?"

"Haha, Professor Li Sanming," Nandegrad did not stop the action, "You are right. There is indeed a little pepper in it. Don't worry, if you apply this, you can ensure that there are no mosquitoes to bite you. No matter how powerful the mosquitoes in the jungle are, it will be afraid of the smell."

"With such a good medicine, why don't we apply it earlier?" Professor Li Sanming felt that Hong Luos' death could be avoided, if they had applied this medicine earlier.

"Well," Nandegrad did not hide it, nor did he feel guilty. "Although the medicine is a good medicine, it has a period of effect. Because the mosquito bites before were not obvious, I planned to apply it to everyone when I went deep into the jungle and raged. This medicine can only last for a few hours, and the amount I carried was limited."

Professor Li Sanming looked at the medicine box that Nandegrad carried with him. It was indeed very large, but there were many medicines and tools that needed to be carried, so it was impossible to prepare everything.

When Nandegrad applied mosquito repellent to everyone, Booktonlin said to everyone again: "People who have applied the medicine should rest on the spot. If they didn't eat just now, you can take advantage of this time to replenish food and moisture. Everyone should save as much as possible when eating. The food we provide for everyone is very limited. If we finish eating, we must use the ingredients locally. However, we do not know whether the creatures here are poisonous, so it is best to be able to eat our own things..."

The food Booktonlin provided to the team members was a few compressed biscuits and a pot of water, because considering that everyone was rushing to the road, they were more or less carrying their own items, which could not add too much burden.

Pang Xiaonan took out a compressed biscuit and nibbled it, frowned. This thing was really unpalatable. Since entering the jungle of New Bloss, Pang Xiaonan has not had the chance to absorb spiritual power. Although he felt that the spiritual energy in the jungle was very strong, his clones were unable to deal with dangers that occurred at any time and consumed too much physical strength. At this moment, he was a little hungry in his stomach.

"Do you eat chocolate?" Lima Oda reached over a chocolate, her eyes flashing.

"You eat it, I'll just eat this." Pang Xiaonan is not particular about food, and he can fill his stomach. He probably won't be able to do it. They will definitely not be used to compressing biscuits, so he would not accept Oda Lima's kindness.

"I have it, I have brought several pieces." Lima Xiaotian showed Pang Xiaonan the goods in her carry-on bag. There are indeed a lot of snacks. It seems that women like to eat snacks, whether they are little girls or old women.

"No need, I don't like sweets." Pang Xiaonan still politely rejected Lima Oda.

Lima Oda no longer insisted and ate chocolate on her own.

Pang Xiaonan was very curious because Red Rolls had just died, but Lima Oda seemed to have no feelings.

"Professor Lima Oda," Pang Xiaonan patted Lima Oda on the shoulder, "I'll interview you. As the only woman in the scientific expedition team, do you feel when your teammates die one by one?"

Lima Oda turned around and looked at Pang Xiaonan, still chewing in her mouth, "To be honest, I was a little uncomfortable at first, but when I think of us coming here, I was mentally prepared. Death was already in our plan, so now I gradually opened up."

"Aren't you afraid of death?" Pang Xiaonan a little surprised when he said this from a scientist. After all, the mentality of intellectuals is fragile after all.

"Since ancient times, no one dies," Lima Oda said a famous saying, "As a biologist, we have seen too many moments of animal death. Isn't humans also a kind of animal? It's like you are fighting monsters in the sea. Monsters are also a life. In this world, you die or I die. There are always people. No, there are always creatures that pay the price of life for the survival of other creatures."

He is worthy of being a top scientist and is superior to his problems. Pang Xiaonan gave Xiaotian Lima a thumbs up: "Listen to your words is better than reading for ten years."

"Then you have to listen to me more in the future." Lima Xiaotian blinked her left eye mischievously at Pang Xiaonan.

"No, no, no," Pang Xiaonan waved his hand repeatedly, "The most powerless thing I can do is to study." Pang Xiaonan said right. As long as he was not allowed to read, he would rather have a less meal, except for those subjects he was interested in.

"Hmph, a guy who doesn't understand the charm." Lima Oda pouted. In this world, there are more men who want to listen to her lectures, and she has to spend a lot of money to invite her, but she is not willing to go.

"Professor Lima Oda, I think Bridge Morgan has a good impression of you." Pang Xiaonan began gossip. In this lonely journey, gossip is the best way to pass the time.

"He, a rich second generation, habitually develops a favorable impression of women," Oda Lima flirted with her black hair, "especially an excellent woman like me."

"It seems that you are biased against the rich second generation." Pang Xiaonan himself likes the rich second generation very much, and he wishes that everyone is rich second generation, so that he can be friends with the rich and eat and drink freely.
To be continued...