Chapter 942: Germ Warfare - Fighting Poison with Poison

“Six days ago, on December 25, 1943 – the anniversary of the birth of Jesus – the most vicious enemy of the United States and Christendom, the Japanese Empire, chose this holy day to carry out the most brutal and shameless attack in the history of mankind.

The Japanese army and navy used the most powerful bacterial weapons in this attack - plague, anthrax, cholera, and other germs were made into weapons and dropped by aircraft on the land of Southern California in the western United States. superior. This was not an attack at all on soldiers and military targets, but on civilians, on defenseless women, children and the elderly. Considering the fact that germs are extremely contagious, this attack is also directed at all mankind, at least against the entire Christian civilization.

The purpose of Japanese imperialism is not only to defeat the United States and occupy its overseas territories, but also to destroy all Americans and other human beings who believe in God.

The facts of what happened on Christmas Day speak for themselves. The people of the United States have formed their own opinions and know very well that this is related to the safety and survival of our country and all human beings who believe in Christ.

As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that measures be taken for the sake of the affected people of Southern California, and that all measures be taken to defeat the enemies of the United States and of Christ.

But the nature of this bacterial attack will forever be remembered by our entire nation and by all who believe in God. No matter how long it takes to defeat this premeditated attempt to destroy us, the American people will definitely win absolute victory with their own righteous power. Moreover, a victorious counterattack is ready and is about to begin, and the bases used by Japan to launch germ warfare will soon be recovered by the US military..."

When Director of Strategic Intelligence Donovan and FBI Director Hoover walked into the Oval Office, Roosevelt was sitting quietly behind his desk, listening to his Nth fireside chat. The purpose of this speech It is to calm people's hearts that are floating due to germ warfare.

"Shut down," the president ordered.

"Yes, sir." Colonel Cotton, the presidential adjutant who entered the office with Donovan and Hoover, immediately stepped forward and turned off the radio, then gave a military salute to the president, then turned and left.

"sit."

Roosevelt said to the two top American spies in a gloomy and terrifying tone.

"Japanese bacteria have caused us great losses!" Roosevelt said. "The Director of the Federal Security Service just told me that as of December 31, in Southern California alone, more than 100,000 Americans have been diagnosed with plague, anthrax and cholera. 25,000, and there are tens of thousands of suspected cases. The number of deaths...has exceeded 2,000, mainly from the Black Death!"

The Black Death is the pneumonic plague, which is the most terrifying form of plague. It develops rapidly, with high fever and obvious symptoms of systemic poisoning. A large amount of bright red bloody sputum appears a few hours after the onset, and most patients die within 2-3 days!

Since there is currently no cure for pneumonic plague (in fact, the specific drug streptomycin to treat pneumonic plague has been invented and is being used in clinical trials, but Yersinia pestis has not been found to be sensitive to streptomycin), the plague dropped by the Japanese Fleas have caused staggering deaths and injuries in Southern California in a short period of time. In a short period of time, nearly 10,000 people were infected. Fortunately, most of them were bubonic plague, which can be treated with sulfonamide drugs.

As for the two germs of anthrax and cholera, the harm they do to the people of Southern California is not as great as the Japanese imagined.

Because live anthrax vaccines appeared as early as 1881, and in 1939, a non-encapsulated attenuated strain vaccine with very good results also appeared. In the United States, where the pharmaceutical industry is very developed, all high-risk groups (farmers, herdsmen, veterinarians, slaughterhouses, etc.) and fur processing workers) have all been vaccinated against anthrax. Moreover, penicillin, a specific drug for treating anthrax, has long been produced in large quantities in the United States. As long as you are not allergic to penicillin, anthrax infection is basically not fatal.

In addition, starting on December 26, U.S. military medical personnel have been vaccinating Americans who have been vaccinated against anthrax in various locations in Southern California. Therefore, the small amount of anthrax spore bombs dropped by the Japanese did not cause too many casualties.

Although there is currently no specific drug to treat cholera, it is relatively easy to control. Because Vibrio cholerae is mainly spread through food and drinking water, and after the California government discovered that the Japanese might use bacterial weapons, it immediately declared a state of emergency across the state, controlled the flow of people, and dispatched the National Guard in case of Japanese air strikes. The Southern California area distributed U.S. military wartime rations and bleaching powder (used to purify drinking water). Therefore, there was no major cholera outbreak in Southern California.

But the plague left Roosevelt feeling helpless. There was neither a specific drug nor a truly useful vaccine. Americans now only have the live attenuated plague vaccine, which has good immunity against the bubonic plague, but it cannot deal with the extremely lethal lung disease. plague.

In addition, controlling the spread of plague is much more difficult than controlling the spread of cholera and anthrax. Because plague can not only be transmitted through fleas as a vector, but can also be transmitted directly from person to person through droplets (pneumonic plague).

Roosevelt looked at the two heads of the U.S. intelligence agencies in front of him with a gloomy look, and told the unexpected bad news word for word: "This morning, the California National Guard responded to a bomb that crashed near Saramento. Bacteria bombs with intact ceramic casings were found on bomb balloons... filled with plague fleas!"

"Oh, God!"

"damn it!"

At this time, both Hoover and Donovan showed horrified expressions. There is still a way to defend against the bombing of the Me264 aircraft - now the major aircraft manufacturers in the United States are working overtime to produce P-61, F4U-2 and F6F-3N/E Waiting for the night fighter.

But who can guarantee 100% shooting down of tens of thousands of bomb balloons every day? Moreover, if a Me264 is shot down, Japan will have to lose two very outstanding pilots (an aircraft flying more than 8,000 kilometers must be equipped with two pilots), which is always a loss for Japan.

There are no people on the bomb balloons... This means that if Japan uses bomb balloons to spread deadly bacteria, it can kill countless American people with zero casualties.

Moreover, Me264 bombers taking off from the Hawaiian Islands can fly as far as the west coast of the United States, while bomb balloons can float to the central and even eastern regions of the United States... There is no such precedent before.

This means that the terrible plague epidemic can be spread by Japanese bomb balloons to the entire United States outside the Southern California epidemic area at any time!

"We must stop the Japanese bacterial attack!" Roosevelt said. "Otherwise, countless Americans would die from the horrific plague."

Prevent? How to stop it?

"Mr. President, are we going to attack the Hawaiian Islands?" Donovan asked tentatively.

Roosevelt smiled bitterly, "I think the Japanese must be well prepared in the Hawaiian Islands, ready to beat our attacking troops."

"President, do we want to make peace with the Japanese?" FBI Director Hoover asked uncertainly.

Hoover knew about the secret peace talks taking place in Switzerland, and also knew that the Japanese had made very high demands - including the cession of the Philippines, the cession of Guam, the cession of the Aleutian Islands, the cession of the Hawaiian Islands, and the cession of all U.S. territories in the western, central and south Pacific. It belongs to an island, etc... It is obviously impossible to accept it.

"It's impossible to make peace!" Roosevelt shook his head and lowered his voice, "We should have a better way... For example, germs can spread, and the germs in the epidemic area in Southern California will definitely spread to other places. , such as Europe!”

"What? Europe?"

Hoover and Donovan looked at each other and saw a look of realization on the other's face.

Roosevelt shrugged and said: "Yes, it is Europe... Now the traffic between North America, South America and Europe is not completely cut off, there are still some neutral countries, isn't it? If some in Southern California or the United States How would Hitler and Hersmann react if rats infected with plague from other places arrived in Portugal or other European countries?

"Their Japanese allies will be mad," Donovan said. "The Nazis pursue a line of racism and European supremacy. The Juncker military aristocrats are all conservative Christians and white supremacists... …The very fact that the Japanese dropped deadly germs on white Christians at Christmas was a great offense to the Nazi Party and the Juncker Group. If these germs spread to Europe, the cooperative relationship between Japan and Germany will definitely face major challenges. !”

"Yes!" Roosevelt said, "Without Germany's support...even if it only temporarily loses Germany's support, Japan can only be torn apart by us! Do you know what to do?"

"We get it, Mr. President."

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"Lieutenant General Oshima." Just when Roosevelt was laying out the shocking conspiracy, German Imperial Marshal Hersmann was meeting with Lieutenant General Hiroshi Oshima, the representative of the Japanese Army in Germany and the Japanese ambassador to Germany, at the General Staff Headquarters in Zossen. "You must have agreed to provide us with a vaccine against pneumonic plague?"

On December 26, the day Hersman learned that the West Coast of the United States had been attacked by Japanese bacterial weapons, he made an emergency appointment with Hiroshi Oshima to request a vaccine against the plague. It's not that he expected that Americans would adopt the method of fighting fire with fire, but that bacterial weapons inherently have the characteristic of "uncontrollable spread."

The Spanish Flu at the end of World War I and the Black Death in the European Middle Ages were also "bacterial weapons" to a certain extent. Both swept across Europe and caused countless deaths.

Once the bacteria spread by Japan in the United States get out of control, it is only a matter of time before it spreads to Europe. Once Japan's bacterial weapons cause heavy casualties in Europe, it will definitely arouse public outrage, and the relationship between Germany and Japan will inevitably completely break down.

That’s why Hersman wanted Japan to provide vaccines at the first opportunity—white supremacy and racism are now no match for the temptation of world hegemony, but it’s another matter to really let the bacteria wreak havoc in Europe.