Around December 5, 2002, Huang Xingchu, a chef at a hotel in Shenzhen, suddenly developed a fever, which he thought was just a minor illness, but turned out to be the world's first SARS patient, triggering the SARS outbreak. During the SARS epidemic, in addition to taking body temperature and smoking white vinegar every day, the most common thing people did was to drink boiled water. Seventeen years later, since December 2019, there have been cases of unknown pneumonia in many hospitals in Wuhan, and it was finally found that the new crown pneumonia was spreading rapidly. During the new crown pneumonia period, in addition to going out less and self-protection, people once again regarded drinking boiled water as a fight against the new crown "** In the hearts of Chinese, boiled water seems to be a panacea for curing diseases, and in fact, it does reduce a lot of disease troubles." However, behind the fact that Chinese like to drink hot water, there is a tragedy of the Chinese volunteers 72 years ago. When North Korea was facing the crisis of national annihilation, ** ordered that Mr. Peng lead the Chinese People's Volunteers to support the operation.
On the eve of the invasion, the US-ROK coalition directly crossed the "38th parallel" and even occupied Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, and MacArthur actually planned to seize the whole of Korea before Thanksgiving. Moreover, the Thanksgiving offensive was not effective at all, and as soon as the Chinese volunteers entered the field, they completely destroyed the plans of the American army, killed more than 15,000 enemies in the first battle, and stabilized the North Korean position.
From October 25, 1950 to June 10, 1951, after five battles, the Sino-Korean coalition forces not only succeeded in destroying more than 200,000 enemies, but also forced the United States to sit down and negotiate. Since then, the Korean battlefield has been in a mode of fighting and talking.
During the negotiations, in order to maintain the victory, the United States tried strategies such as gradual advancement and air traffic blockade, trying to use military pressure to force China and North Korea to compromise. However, in order to express their unyielding stance, the Chinese and North Korean coalition forces repeatedly broke through the enemy blockade. Eventually, on November 27, 1951, the two sides reached an agreement on the actual line of contact as the military demarcation line, and it was expected that the Korean battlefield would calm down, but in order to turn the tide of the war, the United States used "germ warfare" by any means.
On January 28, 1852, the Korean battlefield was bitterly cold, but the American fighter planes made a series of abnormal movements. They sent a number of warplanes to hover at low altitudes, but they never carried out any attacks such as strafing or bombing. The Chinese volunteers immediately smelled something was wrong.
In the afternoon of the same day, the volunteers found a large number of flies, fleas, and rats, which were distributed in Jinguli, Neilongdong, and Longshuidong, west of Pingkang. Upon learning of this situation, the head of the Volunteer Army immediately sent professionals to various places to inspect and examine the insects. After verification, it was found that these insects carried a variety of germs such as Vibrio cholerae and Yersinia pestis. Soon, various units of the Volunteer Army began to be infected with various malignant infectious diseases such as cholera and plague. After discovering this sudden situation, the headquarters of the Volunteer Army immediately realized that these diseases had never appeared in northern Korea, and that such a strange infectious disease appeared in winter, and it was very likely that the US military launched bacteriological warfare in order to turn the tide of the war and ignore international conventions. What's worse is that in addition to the battlefield, the U.S. military also dropped a large number of living creatures with germs in the residential areas of China and North Korea, which is not only to win the war, but also to the Chinese and North Korean people. On March 1, 1952, the General Epidemic Prevention Committee was formally established at the Volunteer Army Headquarters, and Deng Hua, who was then the first deputy commander and first deputy political commissar of the Volunteer Army, was appointed to personally take charge of this matter. After the issuance of the epidemic prevention order, all departments of the Volunteer Army immediately set up epidemic prevention teams, which not only carried out comprehensive disinfection of the troops' station, but also sent a large number of medical personnel to the front line to participate in the treatment work.
The volunteers actively carried out epidemic prevention work on the front line, and a huge "patriotic health and epidemic prevention campaign" was also set off in China.
After receiving the report of the epidemic from the Korean battlefield, on March 14, 1952, the then Prime Minister of the Government Council immediately convened a meeting and urgently established the ** Epidemic Prevention Committee.
After the announcement was issued, people across the country quickly took action, and people everywhere participated in the action of cleaning up garbage and exterminating pests.
In order to avoid infection as much as possible, people at that time not only refused to touch suspicious objects scattered on airplanes, but also often disinfected and disinfected their living environment.
Considering that the tap water infrastructure in China was not yet perfect at that time, some streets may have only a few tap water pipes, and in order to ensure the safety of drinking water, people will heat and disinfect tap water before drinking. And this habit of drinking water has also been cultivated in this national sanitation campaign.
The final statistics show that in the germ warfare launched by the United States, only 384 people were infected in the end due to the rapid response of our people and the effective measures taken.
After the investigation, it was learned that the ** behind the United States' germ warfare was Shiro Ishii, the captain of Japan's Unit 731, who made the Chinese angry.
After Japan's surrender, Shiro Ishii was supposed to be severely punished by the Far East Military Tribunal, but he escaped punishment because he handed over the bacteriological warfare research materials of Unit 731 to the United States.
Shiro Ishii was sent to an important laboratory in the United States because he was given preferential treatment by the United States. And that laboratory is the birthplace of the bacteria ** used by the U.S. military on the Korean battlefield.
The reason why the Chinese people were able to respond to the US germ warfare attack in such an orderly manner is not only related to the unity of the Chinese people, but also inseparable from the foresight of the Chinese people. On 9 September 1951, in the first document directing the work of sanitation,** it was particularly emphasized that in the future it was necessary to regard the work of sanitation, epidemic prevention and general medical care as a major political task and to vigorously promote the development of this work.
It is the thoughtfulness of *** that has pointed out the direction for the health work of New China, and also enabled the brave and fearless Chinese to win the fierce "anti-epidemic war" one after another.