Reading and writing to read the text and discover what kind of plague hit northeast china in nineteen nineteen. Will in der a plague fighter. We began to face a tragic chAllenge in twenty twenty with the spread of COVID nineteen, which saw infection and deaths throughout the world. While we move the harm calls by this pandemic and praise the efforts of nurses, doctors and scientists who thought to gain control over this peril, we are also reminded of epidemics from years past. Perhaps the most dangerous of these was an outbreak of the new month play in northeast china during the winter of nineteen ten to nineteen eleven. This epidemic had nearly a one hundred percent mortality rate, with death usually occurring within four days after first symptoms. The outbreak, which started on the eight of october, was spread by travellers along northeast china's railway lines, quickly infecting the whole region. However, the city which was hardest hit was harbin in december nineteen ten, the chinese government dispatch willing there to harm to investigate, whose family hailed from grandon, china. But he was born in panic, malaysia in eighteen seventy nine, when I was still a british colony. In eighteen ninety six, he went to came rid university england on a scholarship and became the first person of chinese dissent to graduate from there with a medical degree. He then studied for a year and romal ross, a nobel prize winner, before doing research at the pastor institute in front, and then returning to malaysia in nineteen o three. In nineteen o eight, will became the vice director of the army medical college in ta in china. This was the position he held when the government sent him to harbin. After he arrived, we ve found himself hinted by chinese customs regarding death, which prevented him getting permission from the families to do an old toxic on any of the victims. Finally, he was allowed to perform an autopsy on a japanese woman who had died of the disease, the first autopsy in china. And through this, he confirmed that they were dealing with a new month plague, which could spread through the air by people cuffing sneezing or even breathing near others. Accordingly, he believed everyone should wear face masks. However, his findings were hotly contested by other doctors on the scene, who insisted that the disease could not be spread through the air. I'm not the best measures to deal with the plague to kill rats and institute Better people to five was advised to wear face masks to their own harm. In fact, in early january nineteen eleven, a french doctor was sent to replace well, but he refused to wear a face mask while visiting in a matter of days. He also became a victim of the plague. The french doctor's death silenced woods critics, and within days, face masks became the first line of defense against the disease. We even devised a more effective kind of face mask for use by medical personnel, and this is thought to be the prototype for the ninety five face mask, which is being used in hospitals today. Under woods direction, the whole area was placed under quarantine as a precaution, and police began going door to door looking for suspected plague victims and them in corn team so that they could not infect other people. As all rail travel was, they were able to use railway cars to house people. Under quarantine, people who were able to go five days without showing symptoms of infection were released as IT proved impossible to clean the plague hospital they were using. A new hospital was quickly erected, and the old one was burned down. A bigger issue was what to do with the dead bodies. As they presented a danger in the northeast, the ground freezes solid in the winter, making IT difficult to bury anyone. As a result, more than two thousand bodies were put aside so they could be buried in the spring. We was afraid that when the weather began to warm and the bodies began to decay, rats and insects would feed on them, causing the disease to spread further. The solution was to burn the bodies. However, social customs proved an obstacle to this. Finally, we was able to get in order from the ching emperor, that the bodies had to be burnt. With this in hand, we'll began to have bodies cremated. These tactics appeared to have turned a corner on the epidemic, and by march nineteen eleven, there were no more infection. In April nineteen eleven, we chat one of the first other international medical conferences in shenyang, china on the topic of the plague. This became a model for future medical conference and for international collaboration on important public health issues. His experience in handling the plague elevated him to the very top of the medical world in china, where he helped modernize chinese medical practices as one of the inventors of the modern, science based approach to fighting disease, one legacy of doctor whose work is the protocol used for dealing with epidemics. This approach begins with establishing the nature of the the mic and then placing the first priority on stopping the spread of the disease. Next, face masks and court team become the main line of defense. In such a fight, medical personnel follow doctor whose example by continuing to work despite adversity and the many obstacles placed in their paths, so that they can bring healing to their communities, and stopped the spread of.