As for how to uncover the true face of HIV, especially to find out the mode of transmission before finding out its "veil", Zheng Jianguo uses factual data to speak, just like more than ten years ago, when people did not find DNA, they confirmed that smoking is harmful to health by comparing the incidence of lung cancer in smoking and non-smoking people.

On HIV, Zheng Jianguo also used a similar theory to eliminate most of the transmission routes, and only retained the exchange of body fluids based on blood as the source of infection, but when facing Augustus, he said the transmission route of HIV: "Of course, considering that if the mother is infected with this virus before pregnancy, I think there is a high probability that it will be transmitted to the child——"

"Haven't you noticed the symptoms of the disease?"

Augustus pinched his cigar for a long time before he realized what Zheng Jianguo said, especially when he said the man, how did he feel that this product was referring to something, fortunately, there was a similar statement about the injection of unique products, but in his opinion, it was all a process, not the purpose of his trip to Boston today for testing: "You can tell me directly-"

"Augustus, so far, I have only confirmed that after the initial infection with this virus, that is, before the appearance of purple scarring on the surface of the body, it will be accompanied by a prolonged persistent low-grade fever and some degree of diarrhea, plus dark herpes - do you think I would advise Delia to get checked?"

Zheng Jianguo said with a straight face, he didn't know that his previous eyes betrayed his true thoughts, so much so that Augustus looked at the middle-aged man next to him and said, "Please give me a chance to be alone with Zheng." ”

The middle-aged man glanced at Zheng Jianguo, then nodded and turned around and walked out, Augustus watched his back disappear, then looked back at Zheng Jianguo and said, "Zheng, if you know something-"

"Augustus, this virus lives in the blood, and the blood virus covers the range from hepatitis to leukemia virus, so I can't give you any further answer, of course, this is certainly not a good phenomenon in my personal guess. ”

Zheng Jianguo quickly interrupted Augustus's words, and he felt that with the sentence asked earlier to let Delia go for examination, it seemed to inspire him: "However, you can help me find out who is infected with blood No. 3, and then track down who infected him through this person, if you find out who among these people has physical health problems, then you can be considered as having a rough eyebrow." ”

"Okay, then I'll go. ”

Augustus blinked at Zheng Jianguo and stopped, and then felt that this was also a way to get up, but when he arrived at the door, he stood still while opening the door, and said sideways: "You can also ask Delia to do a check-up, in this way, if we two of us track it together, we must be able to find out the person who is sick as soon as possible-"

"Well, okay, I'll call her right away. ”

Zheng Jianguo sent Augustus away at the door, he couldn't believe that Augustus's baby was HIV-infected, of course, this idea only flashed in his mind, New York, as the largest city in the United States and the largest port in the United States, has the ability to influence the world's economy and finance, as well as entertainment and media.

Such a bizarre place should be the first stop for HIV in the United States?

Zheng Jianguo didn't know how accurate his guess was, but according to the genetic cells carried by the HIV virus and the confirmation of large-scale epidemiological studies, it was found that the time when HIV was transmitted from chimpanzees to humans was in a certain month in 1921, and 40 years later it completed a transcontinental leap through blood trading, and finally injected into the bodies of the wounded by medical personnel during the American-Vietnamese War.

And the first stop for these wounded soldiers after returning home was New York Harbor.

It's been about ten years.

Based on Zheng Jianguo's knowledge of HIV, he can infer this result from an average incubation period of 7 to 10 years, of course, according to his memory, the shortest incubation period of HIV is half a year, and the longest is 20 to 30 years.

So after a simple speculation, we know that the time when HIV landed in the United States should be around 1970.

Now, it should have entered a period of concentrated outbreak.

Referring to the situation of Andre and Delia's new infection, it shows that it has spread rapidly in a certain area, and the number of potential infected people should have exceeded the scale of 100,000.

It's just that these people have different identities, and the superior living conditions can provide the balance of the human immune system through substances, so as to suppress the onset of HIV, so as to delay the carrier from entering the state of AIDS?

In the empty room, Zheng Jianguo suddenly had a slight realization, and only this situation can prove that after HIV enters the human body, it will lead to the length of time of onset according to the strength of the body's immune system?

Unfortunately, at this time, medical scientists have not yet discovered the macrophages in the immune system, let alone the monocytes of their precursors and the precursor cells in the bone marrow.

"It's better to call Delia and say forget it. ”

Zheng Jianguo walked away and took out his wallet from his pocket, he hadn't separated the business card and the money at this time, but just when he took the business card to the phone at the bedside, there were two knocks on the closed door: "Bang-bang, boss, I got your speech." ”

"Well, Delia is Anthony's girlfriend?"

With Aster's voice coming from outside the door, Zheng Jianguo suddenly remembered the other identity of the girl on the business card, and when he opened the door after a few steps, he saw that next to Aster, who had changed into a wide T-shirt and short skirt, Fiona, who was still wearing a Mayo Medical School uniform, was reaching out and stirring one of the two ponytails on the back of her head, blinking her clear blue eyes and her voice was crisp: "That, knowing that you have made a new discovery, Walton will let me tempt you-"

"It's not good for you guys to be like this—"

His eyes swept left and right in the corridor, Zheng Jianguo's nervous expression made the two girls laugh, and Esther entered the room and said, "We saw it before we came, no one-"

"We've been together enough today. ”

Zheng Jianguo looked at the two girls into the house speechlessly, and quickly closed the door and said, but Fiona sat directly on the edge of the bed, looked him up and down and said, "You are wearing a raincoat today, why?

"Have you ever heard that there are too many men?"

Esther put down the folder in her hand, leaned next to the TV and asked, Fiona subconsciously said: "No, I met - Esther, are you playing tricks on me? I can tell you that he did it three times, three times! Just the first time, he did it three times! It's this man!"

"In order to avoid provoking more girls, I decided to start self-discipline in this area-"

Listening to the more the two of them talked, the more outrageous it became, Zheng Jianguo quickly dragged the topic back, as the saying goes, his family knows his own affairs, he was originally an old man with weak self-discipline, and when facing Esther and Fiona, who had never met in his previous life, he relaxed his requirements for himself, so that now it has developed like this.

At that time, Zheng Jianguo regarded the HIV virus lurking around him as a condition for self-restraint, but after the emergence of HIV virus detection methods, this constraint could no longer control the surging in his heart.

"We'll help you do that, won't we?

Fiona blinked and didn't know what to say, but she didn't think that her wooing behavior fell on Esther's ears, but Esther changed her words and said, "The two of us are different, I'll go first-"

"You-"

Seeing that Esther put down the folder and turned to leave, Fiona looked at her back and didn't turn back until it disappeared, and looked at Zheng Jianguo, who was silent, and said, "Are you and her temporary—what does she want from you? money or research?"

"What do you want from me?"

As if remembering that Wen Cun with Esther was a cold transaction, Zheng Jianguo's mood instantly deteriorated, of course, he also knew that he couldn't think about it, if he really cared about it, then everything in this world would be a cold transaction, even if it was family affection, it would become cold because of the sentence of raising children to prevent old age, so Fiona, who was stunned, continued to speak: "I'm sorry, I'm in a bad mood." ”

"No need to apologize, no need to apologize between us, to be honest, I can be with you, I take advantage of more, when the professor took us to publish a photo of Helicobacter pylori last time, I was a little excited, I feel that I can finally distance myself from you, but my father, but I poured cold water on me who was excited, do you know what it is?"

Fiona quickly shook her head and got up from the bed, took a few steps in front of Zheng Jianguo, her eyes widened, and she blinked her long eyelashes and looked at him, only to see Zheng Jianguo frowning and a question mark appeared behind him: "What is it?"

"The Cell" is a study of the contamination of the lancet with pathogenic bacteria in the hair follicle. ”

The probe stroked Zheng Jianguo's cheek, this is a face that is no different from other young Asian men in Fiona's eyes, but this face actually changed her stubborn father's mind, and after a sigh, he said: "In the past, the comments I heard about you from others were similar to the "lucky" ones in the media reports, but it wasn't until this paper of yours came out that my father talked to me about you for the first time——"

"You told him we had a relationship?"

Zheng Jianguo frowned and asked again, Fiona reached out and stroked his brow and said: "No, I don't know if he tested me when he talked about you, so I didn't say anything about the relationship between the two of us, he said that your luck comes all from your observation of things, and through the observation results to make a hypothesis, and then to study this hypothesis."

He thought that this was the talent of a true scientist, and it was when Newton observed the apple falling on his head that he confronted the existence of gravity, and then broke the heliocentric cosmology theory at that time with the law of universal gravity by hypothetizing the phenomenon of the apple falling to the ground and the weight of a person and the moon revolving around the earth.

"My face is red, you should be able to feel it. ”

Rao is Zheng Jianguo is accustomed to claiming to be the discoverer of Helicobacter pylori and graphene, but in the face of Fiona's unreserved words, he still feels the embarrassment of conscience from the depths of his heart, but after considering the relationship between the two, he reached out and grabbed Fiona's little hand that was moving: "I don't know what your father does yet?"

"My father was the CTO of Lexington Pharmaceuticals, and my mother was a member of the Lexington Congress. ”

Fiona shook her head and said, but just when she showed a charming smile and wanted to make a move, Zheng Jianguo had already let go of her hand and pulled away: "You said you took advantage of me a lot?"

"You also took advantage of me, and today you took advantage of it again, it's still a big advantage. ”

Fiona's eyes widened for a moment and she spoke, then sat back on the edge of the bed and lay down on the bed, looking at the lamp on the ceiling and said, "The last time we were together, it was the first time, and you said something valuable about Helicobacter pylori—"

"Okay, so you're going back to speed things up?"

vaguely remembered that he had casually said a few words with Fiona, but Zheng Jianguo remembered the last time he knew that someone was competing with him, and subconsciously felt that he couldn't leak out the news of HIV: "If you are preempted by someone again, it will be a bit of a slap in the face." ”

It's just that when this thought flashed in Zheng Jianguo's mind, he also looked at Fiona's undulating figure on the bed and fell silent, to be honest, he was not a man who had never seen great health care in his previous life.

Although I haven't been in contact with girls like Yang Na and Esther and Fiona, I can open my phone and face all kinds of filters and dermabrasion and photoshopped pictures, so I naturally don't have the ability to appreciate it.

So when he met Yang Na with Fan Dailin, Zheng Jianguo didn't have the idea of coveting it in his heart, one was that he was new to the land and knew that she was not easy to mess with, and the other was that he knew that there was a large garden waiting for him in the distance, and he couldn't afford to provoke this nest for the sake of momentary pleasure - flowers.

It wasn't until Yang Na clarified the relationship as if jokingly that Zheng Jianguo had a preliminary understanding of the aura on his body, and then he was pushed down by Fiona after graduation, and when he entered the hospital, he faced Catherine and Esther, who were not ashamed of themselves, until Esther came to the door to obtain the research results in his hands by means of flesh.

At this point, Zheng Jianguo began to have a deeper understanding of the research results he mastered, which represent the silent research of countless people and time.

And these achievements can not only be exchanged for the pursuit and submission of scholars such as Yang Na and Esther, but the biggest effect is that these people can become Zheng Jianguo's supporters in the field of research, and now he has Tao Ye and Esther in Helicobacter pylori, Catherine in HIV, Celia in the blue pill, and MIT and Harvard University in the case of graphene.

So Fiona is running back now, Zheng Jianguo feels that this sister whose father is the chief technology officer of the pharmaceutical company is still a good candidate for HIV, but considering that there is no free lunch in this world, he also said: "I have made some discoveries-"

Fiona leaned over on the bed, supported her head with two ponytails with her hands, and slowly got up, "Isn't it the discovery of Massachusetts General Hospital?"

“duangduang~”

With two loud noises after more than an hour of silence, Zheng Jianguo opened his eyes on the bed, looking at the light outside the window that was faintly shining on the ceiling, and before he could come back to his senses, two loud noises came from the door in the distance: "duangduang——"

"Well, this is Room 9023 at the Hyatt Regency. ”

With a thought in his mind, Zheng Jianguo picked up the gold watch on the bedside and pulled the bedside lamp, looked at the time and found that it was only 4:31 in the morning, so he tied his pajamas to the door and opened the cat's eye to see, and then opened the latch and opened the door: "Anthony - Delia?"

"Zheng, can we go in and talk to you?"

Anthony's face was a little pale, he looked left and right at the hotel manager and the security guard in a suit who followed next to him, and after turning his head, he looked the sleepy-eyed Zheng Jianguo up and down, and then said in a low voice: "We went to do the test, and Augustus took us there." ”

"Oh, come on in, then. ”

Zheng Jianguo turned on the light and turned into the house, Anthony also took Delia into the house, and the hotel manager outside the door also took his subordinates away, and finally Delia closed the door and said with an unhappy face: "Zheng——"

"I didn't expect Augustus to be so tossed-"

Looking at the expressions of the boyfriend and girlfriend, Zheng Jianguo didn't have much trouble to guess that he was afraid that Augustus had found them, of course, the reason must be what he said to Anthony on the phone before, waved his hand and looked at the two of them and said suspiciously: "First of all, let's confirm, both of you are positive?"

"Yes. ”

After Anthony entered the house, his nose twitched twice, and Delia had already spoken: "This virus, no one has really discovered it yet?"

"Someone must have found out. ”

The probe took three glasses of water on the drinking fountain, Zheng Jianguo took it and put it in front of the two, and drank it himself: "However, they don't know that it is caused by this virus, just like we don't know the symptoms of this virus, can you two understand my statement?"

"So how do you get this thing out of your body?"

Delia reached out and untied the silk scarf around her neck, revealing a swollen neck lymph node, Zheng Jianguo was momentarily stunned and put down the cup next to his mouth, and only after taking two steps did he realize that this state was not right: "Can I see your swollen area?"

"Zheng, you can't find anything, do you?"

Anthony looked at Zheng Jianguo with a suspicious face and stood up, and Zheng Jianguo didn't know how to describe his mood, silently staring at Delia's somewhat blackened neck lymph nodes, this situation is a manifestation in his memory that the HIV virus has invaded the immune system, because the lymph nodes are the first line of defense for the human immune system to deal with the invasion of the virus!

But Delia's virus defense line is likely to have been breached-

"You two wait a minute, I'll go find two doctors. ”

Zheng Jianguo's previous sleepiness disappeared completely, and he felt in a hurry at this time, recalling that when he saw Delia in the morning, he didn't expect that Delia had become an HIV patient, so he quickly left the two of them out of the door, and slammed in front of Esther's door without shoes.

Just didn't smash it twice, Zheng Jianguo then turned around and left as if he remembered something, and picked up the phone after quickly arriving in his room, and sure enough, as he dialed the room number a few times, Esther got through first, so he quickly hung up the phone after letting the other party come over, and dialed Fiona's number again, I don't want this girl to be coquettish in the microphone after hearing his request: "Miss me so soon?"

"Come on, I've got a patient here!"

Zheng Jianguo subconsciously blurted out, and then realized that he had said something wrong and hung up the phone, but fortunately, at this time, Esther had already appeared at the open door, and his face was full of question marks after finding the three people inside: "Boss——"

“boss？”

Delia glanced at Zheng Jianguo quickly, and he said to the two of them: "Esther is my assistant in the laboratory of Massachusetts General Hospital, and Catherine, whom you have just met, is a colleague-"

“？？？”

Esther subconsciously looked at the two of them with question marks on their faces, and when Zheng Jianguo was about to speak, a figure appeared outside the door, only to see Fiona also running over in a pajamas: "What's wrong? Didn't you call 911?"

"I'm afraid 911 can't solve it—"

Zheng Jianguo swept over the other party's pajamas, then looked at Delia next to him, and said, "Delia, can they check the lymph nodes on your body for you?"

"Check your body?"

Fiona had already taken a few steps in front of several people, looked at Delia, and instantly found that the lymph nodes around her neck were abnormal, and then remembered that Zheng Jianguo said that 911 could not be solved, and suddenly said in front of her: "This is-"

"You guys check it out, I'll go to the bathroom. ”

Zheng Jianguo said that he went to the door, closed the door and entered the bathroom, quickly washed his face and looked at himself in the mirror, and found that the ribs on his chest were faint, and he knew that he had to continue to strengthen his exercise, but fortunately, he knew that the lymph node examination would not take long, so he pushed open the door of the bathroom and went to the house, only to see that Anthony was gone: "What about Anthony?"

"Went out for a cigarette. ”

Delia was dressing carefully in front of Zheng Jianguo, Esther and Fiona had already arrived at Zheng Jianguo's side, the two women looked at each other and looked at each other's pajamas, or Esther spoke: "In addition to swollen lymph nodes in her neck, her groin and medial epicondyle lymph nodes in the humerus are also swollen, with a diameter of 1.5 cm, and she is hard and inelastic on palpation, and there is no pain——"

"Hmm-"

Zheng Jianguo nodded and walked to Delia, looked at the other party's delicate makeup, curious cheeks and worried eyes, and said, "Considering how long you have been infected—"

"I also had swollen lymph nodes 5 years ago, neck, groin, armpit—"

Anthony's voice came, and Zheng Jianguo turned his head to look at the 2nd generation or the 3rd generation of the ship, which can be regarded as handsome, and then said: "Anthony, presumably your lymph nodes were not hard and inelastic at that time, which is not a good phenomenon, and because Delia was wearing heavy makeup, I can't see the original color of her face, let alone say that it is a temperature measurement, Delia, have you felt abnormal recently?"

"Fever, it's been over 38 degrees for more than a month, and the ulcers in my mouth have never gotten better, sometimes shortness of breath after high waves, and the only good news is that I've lost weight, I used to be about 110 pounds at most, now it's only 95 pounds, and my family doctor said it should be caused by some kind of severe allergy. ”

The black eyebrows on Delia's fair cheeks were twisted together as she spoke, Zheng Jianguo turned his head to look at Anthony, who had already reached the distance, and said, "Anthony, have you injected a unique product before?"

"Well, I was injected before, but it was injected by the person who kidnapped me, and then I quit, although it was very difficult, but I haven't had a relapse injection now. ”

Anthony nodded slowly in front of Zheng Jianguo and said, his face seemed to fall into a memory, but he didn't expect that as the words fell, Zheng Jianguo had already spoken in his ear: "Then are you bisexual or heterosexual?"

"W-does this matter?"

Anthony was completely stunned, his resolute cheeks instantly looked at Delia in the distance, and then picked up his fingers and scratched the hair on his head that was neatly combed back, Zheng Jianguo also spoke: "The way this virus is transmitted, only body fluids and blood transmission have not been ruled out, and the most important thing is the blood where the virus lives."

In addition, considering the bleeding caused by the rupture of the mucous membranes and the injected needles in X's life, Anthony, the lymph nodes are the body's first line of defense against the invasion of foreign viruses, but this line of defense has been overcome by Delia, which may be the reason for her persistent fever.

If the two of you have each other, then it is certain that one of you has passed on the infection to the other, and given what you said earlier, you have passed it on to Delia, Anthony. ”

"No, it won't. ”

Anthony shook his head quickly with a shocked face, but as his words fell, his eyes widened as if he remembered something: "You mean it will be contagious to other people?"

"Do you have any other X partners?"

Zheng Jianguo forcibly controlled himself not to look at Delia next to him, and saw Anthony's face change slightly: "My ex-wife-"

"Well, you can take your ex-wife for a test too-"

Zheng Jianguo was silent for a while, and then turned his head to look at Delia next to him: "Delia, what are you going to do now?"

"I, I don't know, I feel like you think I'm seriously ill—"

Delia shook her head and said, Zheng Jianguo said that you are now an HIV patient, and the most simply thing is to find a relief for yourself, but remembering that this is the closest HIV patient he has been to in the past two years, he also said: "This, my suggestion is that from now on, you should reduce your exposure to bacteria and viruses in the space, that is, reduce travel and keep ventilation, don't let other viruses and germs find you——"

"What about my life, what about my social interactions?"

Delia asked two questions in a row with a look of disbelief, then nodded as if in confirmation and said, "No, I'm not going to give up my life, I'm not going to give up my social, Anthony, I'm leaving-"

"Okay, I'll send you-Zheng, sorry to bother you today. ”

Anthony immediately waved his hand and grabbed Delia and said to Zheng Jianguo, of course Zheng Jianguo would not open his mouth to leave Delia, because that would only backfire: "Okay, pay attention on the road." ”

"Thank you. ”

Anthony nodded as he said and helped Delia turn to leave, but as he opened the door, Zheng Jianguo also saw Director Amy outside the door, and immediately said to Esther and Fiona: "You guys also go back to rest, remember not to tell others about today's incident, pay attention to the privacy of patients." ”

"Okay, boss. ”

Esther nodded and walked away wrapped in her pajamas, Fiona glanced at Dr. Caphora who was standing with Director Amy at the door, and had to follow and say goodbye, "Zheng, we'll see you in the morning." ”

"Well, thank you for coming. ”

Zheng Jianguo pretended to nod and sent people to the door, and as the two girls left, Amy said with a puzzled face: "Zheng, what's wrong?"

"These two are my friends, and they came to me for advice when they were not feeling well. ”

Seeing that Caphora next to him was also full of concern, Zheng Jianguo vaguely gave Anthony and Delia a sufficient reason, and sure enough, Kaphora nodded suddenly and turned to leave.

Leaving Amy, who was also full of abruptness, wanted to leave, and saw Zheng Jianguo give him a look, and an inaudible voice came at the same time: "The unknown virus test result of these two people is positive, considering Esther's identity, I called Fiona again——"

"So this unknown virus lab has already let Fiona know?"

As the director of the digestive center of Massachusetts General Hospital, Amy of course knows that the existence of the unknown virus laboratory is almost secret, but she can also understand that Zheng Jianguo simply took Esther when facing a female patient, which was really against the requirements of the ethics committee in his bedroom, but she didn't take it to heart when it happened: "Don't think about this matter now, let's go back when the meeting is over, and make this meeting a good one." ”

"Okay, Director Amy, you should rest early. ”

Even if he had completed the report for pulling Fiona into the unknown virus laboratory, Zheng Jianguo went back to the house in a good mood with a look of excitement on his face, of course, Delia was not the first HIV patient he had encountered.

The first HIV patient in the real sense, or the person Zheng Jianguo and Yuna met at the Burger King fast food restaurant at that time, the pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii has been attacking for a long time, and now he must have come to the end of his life after being tortured like hell?

"Poor Delia is in front of Anthony—"

With the apprehensive Delia in front of him, Zheng Jianguo's excitement turned into a heavy one, he had seen all kinds of tragic conditions of HIV patients after the onset of the disease, and as far as he knew, in terms of lethality and disability, HIV was not ranked at all.

However, the reason why this virus is so terrible is that it seems to be "pure and good" but is actually "extremely vicious": after destroying the immune system, it will look at other viruses and germs swarming to destroy the body and mind of the patient.

The first case of cancer transmission from a parasite to a human was in this case.

With a complicated mentality towards Delia, Zheng Jianguo couldn't let go of this burden and fell asleep for a long time, until the curtain outside the window faintly heard the white of the fish's belly, and he fell asleep groggily.

But he didn't sleep for long, Zheng Jianguo was woken up by Yang Na, who was diagnosed with HIV, looked out the bright window and wiped the cold sweat on his head, and found that it was less than two hours before the meeting began: "Fake!"