Chapter 103

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

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

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

Therefore, in areas where mosquitoes are more rampant, malaria spreads more widely. Especially in this era, people still do not know that malaria is spread by mosquitoes.

It is impossible to prevent the spread of malaria from its roots. Malaria is widespread from tropical to subtropical regions.

In the early days of colonial development in East Africa, immigrants suffered a lot. Even under the compulsory orders of the East African government, large-scale improvements were made to the health and living environment.

It was ineffective because in the early days, East Africa was a large wasteland with lush vegetation. Especially during the rainy season, the weather was hot and humid, and mosquitoes breed rapidly.

The immigrants had just arrived, and the number was still small. They could not change their living environment quickly enough, so many people were infected, and many were taken away by malaria and other tropical diseases.

Fortunately, immigrants who were able to survive in the Far East and cross the ocean have never seen any strong winds or waves.

Just like the black slaves who went to the United States through the slave trade, they were the physically fit part of the black population that was selected by nature and man.

The same is true for the immigrants from the Far East who were able to reach East Africa alive. Of course, in order to ensure the survival rate of the immigrants, the conditions of their transportation ships were much better than those of black slaves.

Then, with the gradual increase in immigration and the development of urban villages in East Africa, the living conditions in East Africa also slowly improved.

Ernst's order led to a massive mosquito eradication campaign in East Africa, a campaign that had been going on since the early days of the East African colonies.

Burn the vegetation around the settlement site, fill puddles to reduce the living environment of mosquitoes, carry out biological control of the water bodies in the colony, and breed fish and frogs on a large scale to reduce the number of mosquito larvae.

As the development of the colony began to take shape, the quality of life in the colony has also been greatly improved, especially tropical diseases such as malaria and dengue fever that are transmitted by mosquitoes. Due to the implementation of mosquito eradication campaigns in the colony, they have also been greatly reduced.

Moreover, the colonies forced immigrants to pay attention to hygiene, strengthen management of water sources in the colonies, and strictly prohibited polluting water sources, not drinking raw water, or simple filtration and disinfection of some water bodies.

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

Management of wild animals that may spread diseases is even stricter. In the early days, due to food shortages, immigrants were allowed to hunt to supplement food. Once food production began in the colonies, such behavior was prohibited.

Ernst has always believed that many diseases in Africa in previous lives were entirely 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 (excluding humans of course, let’s talk about it if they are indigenous) can be regarded as suffering, as long as they are within the scope of immigration activities (including farmland and roads), The baboons, monkeys, and orangutans that appeared were all brutally killed by the colonists. They were physically eliminated with muskets, then burned to ashes with fire, and finally buried (remote mountains, deep forests and savannahs are not included in this list, and will be reserved as ecological reserves in the future).

This is done to prevent some people from eating it. After all, immigrants came here hungry before and ate soil and tree bark. After living a hard life, they were afraid that someone would sneak in extra food for them.

Under this strict defense, the living conditions of the East African colonies were naturally greatly improved, and the sanitary conditions were better than any other place at the same time, including Europe.

When subsequent 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.

Coupled with the increasing number of intermarriages between Chinese and white women (Armenia, Paraguay, etc.), the Middle East and Africa have subtly integrated various ethnic groups. As long as the cultural characteristics of immigrants from various countries other than German culture are eliminated in the future, population integration will be completed.

Although the living conditions of the current East African colonies have greatly improved, tropical diseases are suppressed to very low levels at the same latitude.

It is conceivable that it is impossible to completely eliminate mosquitoes, and mosquitoes are the most important disease carriers. Therefore, in addition to continuing to strengthen sanitation and control activities, it is also necessary to use scientific means to eliminate mosquitoes.

Again, people today have absolutely no understanding of mosquitoes as disease transmitters.

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

So now, Ernst and the people in the East African colonies were the only ones in the world who believed mosquitoes were the spreaders of diseases like malaria.

It's not that Ernst was selfish and didn't announce it to the world. The problem was that he also knew it through his previous life. He was not a researcher or authority in this field. If he told it, he would probably be laughed out of his mouth.

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

In the early days, people may have been reluctant, after all, everything was enforced, but slowly, with the improvement of sanitation and environment, diseases such as malaria have really decreased, and immigrants have been happy to change (after all, no one wants to die).

The advantages of using Chinese immigrants in the early days were revealed. They had strong obedience and weak sense of resistance. They were influenced by the culture of the Far Eastern government. Even if they had grievances, they suppressed them first. Therefore, the sanitary improvement movement enforced by the East African colonial government was successfully implemented.

By the time immigrants from other countries arrived, this model had matured and became the norm and daily routine in the East African colonies. After all, the number of new immigrants was small at first, so they had no choice but to follow it. In this way, paying attention to hygiene became an iron law in the East African colonies. Everyone must follow the rules.

Immediately, immigrants from the German region will arrive in East Africa, and good news comes from the Hechingen Consortium.

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

As long as we continue to follow the mosquito-repellent incense of the previous life and hire professionals to design and produce mosquito-repellent incense machines, we can mass-produce mosquito-repellent incense, a "big killer" of mosquitoes in tropical areas.

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

Moreover, the production of mosquito-repellent incense can bring new wealth to the Hexingen Consortium, and East Africa itself is the production base of pyrethrum, which can further form a perfect industrial closed loop.