Professor Gu's daily life in the countryside after his rebirth

Sun Yuan received the notice that the Department of Agriculture had come directly to look for someone.

The staff from the Department of Agriculture came over and went straight to Sun Yuan's office. Sun Yuan saw that they were sweating profusely in the middle of winter, and wanted to invite them to sit down and have a drink of water and chat slowly, but they waved their hands.

"President Sun, I'm busy today. I won't drink any water. I have something important to report to you."

Seeing how anxious they were, Sun Yuan had a bad feeling in his heart: "What's going on?"

"President Sun, we have received reports from some of our counties and districts of small-scale poultry deaths."

As soon as these words fell, Sun Yuan's face suddenly became terribly ugly. He subconsciously thought of what Gu Zhan had come to him to talk about some time ago.

He stood up from his seat and asked the staff, "When was it reported?" "Are there any specific details?"

The staff member said: "The feedback we have received so far is only quantitative. The specific situation has been handled by the animal disease prevention and control departments in these places. We will probably receive the results before the end of get off work at noon."

Sun Yuan just hoped that it was something else, and that it was not chicken plague or bird flu.

"Come on, I'll go with you to the hall to wait for the results."

"Oh, okay, thank you, Dean Sun."

In fact, it stands to reason that when something like this happens, the first step should be for the animal disease prevention and control department to take action. It's just because Sun Yuan and Director Jiang Liqun had reported this matter before, and now that there is a problem, the first person Jiang Liqun thought of who could solve the problem is Jiang Liqun.

When I hurried to the Ministry of Agriculture, Jiang Liqun had already gathered relevant staff members in the conference room to wait for the results.

Seeing Sun Yuan come in, Jiang Liqun stood up and shook his hand: "Mr. Sun, you are here."

After Sun Yuan shook hands with Jiang Liqun, he sat in the seat specially reserved for him in the conference room.

"What's the situation now?" Sun Yuan asked.

"Waiting for a call." Jiang Liqun whispered to Sun Yuan.

Sun Yuan nodded and sat in his seat anxiously.

The faces of the people sitting in the conference room at this moment are not very good. They are more or less related to the white-feather chicken promotion project. Now that the white-feather chicken industry in Ontario has just been on the right track in terms of scale, it may encounter such a disastrous result.

No one wants to face such a result.

Time slipped slowly in the anxious waiting, and everyone felt like the days were passing by for years. The clock struck twelve, and the office still hadn't received a call for feedback.

"Director, it's already ten minutes past twelve. Do you want to call and urge them?" A staff member came in and whispered in Jiang Liqun's ear.

Jiang Liqun shook his head imperceptibly and said, "Be patient and wait a little longer."

Finally, after one o'clock, I received a call from an animal disease control center.

The symptoms described on the phone are highly consistent with those of avian influenza.

Sun Yuan felt as if he had lost all his strength, and only his brain was working rapidly.

"What should I do?" he asked himself expectantly.

After thinking it over for a while, he stood up and walked over to Jiang Liqun and said, "Director, I think we must invite experts from this industry to solve this problem."

Jiang Liqun's frown relaxed slightly after hearing Sun Yuan's words: "Expert? What are you talking about?"

"Dean Qu Hongbo and teacher Gu Zhan from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Ontario."

"Qu Hongbo and Gu Zhan were both key personnel in the development of the avian influenza vaccine. Furthermore, Gu Zhan was also a key member of the research and development team that developed the white-feathered chicken breed."

Hearing Sun Yuan's words, Jiang Liqun immediately ordered the staff: "Hurry up and call the Ontario Agricultural College and ask you two to come over."

Qu Hongbo and Gu Zhan have been working in the laboratory day and night for two or three months, but still haven't achieved any special results.

But Gu Zhan did not intend to give up. In his eyes, there was no such thing as giving up halfway on the road of scientific research, whether in the previous life or this life.

At noon, Gu Zhan hadn't even had time to eat. He was still busy in the laboratory. He faintly heard someone knocking on the laboratory window. Gu Zhan looked up and saw Liu Xu pointing to the other side of the corridor and whispering, "The dean is calling you."

Gu Zhan was a little stunned. When Qu Hongbo left, he said he would come back after dinner, but it has been a while since dinner and he still hasn't come back. Something must have happened.

Gu Zhan called his colleagues in the same group to help watch the equipment, then changed his clothes and left the laboratory building.

Striding towards Qu Hongbo's office, Gu Zhan saw Qu Hongbo sitting in his seat with a serious expression as soon as he entered. The school principal was sitting on the chair on the other side.

"Principal, Dean!"

"Xiao Gu, please sit down."

The principal spoke first, asking Qu Hongbo to speak.

After thanking him, Gu Zhan sat on the only remaining chair not far away.

Seeing that everyone was present, the dean explained the key matters of the day to the two of them one by one: "The Department of Agriculture just called and said that they had encountered some special circumstances and asked you two to come over."

As soon as the dean finished speaking, Gu Zhan had already roughly guessed what had happened. He felt a little heavy-hearted. It seemed that what was supposed to happen according to the original trajectory still happened.

However, he didn't show it on his face, waiting for the dean to continue: "This time, I guess it's still about professional matters. You two should go quickly."

Sitting in the car, Qu Hongbo briefly told Gu Zhan about his guess, and Qu Hongbo actually thought the same thing as Gu Zhan.

Ten minutes later, the car drove into the gate of the Agriculture Department.

There were already staff members waiting for the two of them below.

Seeing the two people coming quickly, the staff hurried up and said, "Thank you for your hard work, please go upstairs."

They arrived at the meeting room smoothly. Jiang Liuqun and Sun Yuan quickly asked the two to sit down. Sun Yuan briefly explained the situation to Qu Hongbo and Gu Zhan.

After thinking for a few seconds, Gu Zhan said: "Based on preliminary judgment, it can be confirmed that it is avian influenza. The specific situation."

Jiang Liqun's conclusion was almost the same as Sun Yuan's. He asked, "Do you two have any good solutions now?"

Deal with it? Gu Zhan smiled bitterly.

So far, the only countermeasure available is a vaccine.

Vaccines are only suitable for pre-emptive prevention and control, and are very effective in areas where outbreaks have not yet occurred. However, in areas where outbreaks have occurred, the effect of vaccines is very limited.

Seeing Gu Zhan's embarrassment, Qu Hongbo explained on his behalf: "Our most important method now is to prevent it through vaccination. As for the chickens that have already been infected, I'm afraid it won't be very effective."

The answer was far from what Jiang Liqun expected. He continued to ask, "Apart from vaccines, is there no other solution now?"

Another way is to kill and dispose of the poultry in the infected farms harmlessly. This is also a method commonly used in later generations. Now it seems that this is the only method that can be used.