Chapter 358 (1/2)

”Major, can't such delicious drinks make you happy?” The stone bear once again touched the glass with major Fogg and asked after a drink.

Since major Fogg led his team to gaoshu tribe, Shi Xiong clearly felt that the young major seemed to have something on his mind. He always showed a strong look of worry.

Major Fogg looked at the stone bear, and the casual worry that had just appeared between his eyebrows disappeared. With a smile, he lifted his glass and drained the wine. Then he picked up a string of Beef Kebabs and slowly said, ”guardian, my hometown is in Canterbury, east of London. It's a quiet seaside port, just south of the Thames estuary.”

Stone bear thought about it, and finally shook his head helplessly. For the geography of Britain, he only knew London, Southampton, Bermingham, Manchester and other big cities, such as Cambridge and Oxford, just because the universities there were very famous.

As for what major Fogg said about Canterbury, he really didn't know.

”But some time ago, I received a letter from my family, saying that the terrible smallpox disease began to spread again. It is said that there has been a mess in London, and it seems that there are smallpox patients in my hometown Canterbury. Now, people in my hometown are in a panic... ”

”Smallpox...” the stone bear murmured and frowned“ Adria, are you sure smallpox is back in fashion? ”

Major Fogg frowned and shook his head. ”I didn't see it with my own eyes, but that's what the letter from home says, so I'm not sure now. But, guardian, this is smallpox. The last time smallpox was popular in the Empire, it was only more than 30 years ago. At that time, I was still young. It is said that more than 200000 people lost their lives in that epidemic... ”

The stone bear sighed a little.

How can he not understand the horror of smallpox?

Although smallpox, the top three malignant infectious disease in human history, has been completely eliminated in later generations, in this era, in Europe in the middle of the 18th century, smallpox is indeed a terrible existence comparable to the scythe.

Later on, someone once counted several malignant infectious diseases with the highest death toll in human history. Influenza ranked first, black death ranked second, and smallpox ranked third.

Let's not talk about the flu. Let's not talk about the past. Even in the era before the stone bear passed through, there was no good way for human beings to take the flu. In the whole history of human civilization, there are so many people who died of influenza that there is no way to count them.

Anyway, a Spanish pandemic alone has caused 40 million deaths, which is four times the number of deaths in World War I!

The black death, with hair standing on end, is actually a plague.

The most famous black death in history broke out in Sicily, Italy, in the middle of the 14th century. In 1347, the disease broke out in Sicily, and then swept Europe in just three years. In the following 20 years, it caused 25 million deaths in Europe.

As long as got this kind of disease, the patient does not have any cure possibility, the skin appears many black spots, the death process is extremely painful, therefore called ”Black Death”. This disease made a comeback in Europe many times in the following 300 years. Later scholars estimated that as many as 300 million people died of this plague, which accounted for half of the European population!