The boss found the dead mouse in the wooden box, which was rarely opened, and was used to store some discarded strips of rags and old hemp rope, and the dead rats lay flat on top of the strips of rags.

It seems that this rat has used this place as a rat nest.

The strips of rag were bitten to sparse pieces, forming a semicircular nest.

There are signs of decay on the rat's body, it seems that it has been dead for a few days, its fur is intact, there is no external injury, it should not have been injured by a rat trap and sticking to the rat board, is it really a rat poison?

The boss found the place where the peanuts had been mixed with rat poison before.

He clearly remembered that there were 12 peanuts in total, and now when he counts, it is still 12, which is not less.

Didn't eat rat poison? So how did this big rat die?

Still dead in your own nest?

The boss wondered, but he didn't dig deeper.

Grab a plastic bag, pack the dead rat with the rags in the box, and throw it in the trash can across the street.

A few days later.

The owner, Chen Jiaming, felt unwell, his body was weak, and his muscles were sore.

At first, he thought it was because he had been tired from getting up early and getting up late, but after a night's rest, his symptoms became worse on the second morning.

Headache, nausea, and high fever.

The proprietress Li Xiaohua found a thermometer and put it under the boss's armpit to measure 38.4 °C.

"Lao Chen, you may have a cold, you just have cold medicine at home, you take some. ”

The proprietress took out the leftover cold medicine from the drawer at home, a few packets of cold powder from Chinese patent medicine, and cephalosporin antibiotics.

I took the two medicines together for two days.

Within two days, Lao Chen's symptoms became more and more severe and strange.

The skin on his chest and neck began to flush.

Press the flushed skin with your hand to fade the color, let go of your hand, and turn red again.

I've never had this symptom of a cold before, and this time I had a terrible headache.

What's more serious is that the proprietress Li Xiaohua also began to have a fever and headache.

Like my wife, I took the cold medicine left at home, and the symptoms did not alleviate but became serious.

The two realized that something was wrong, maybe they didn't have a cold, in this case, it was better to go to a big hospital to compare insurance.

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Lianyun District Hospital.

The boss, Chen Jiaming and his wife, registered for treatment.

The expert number was hung up, and the patient was an old doctor with gray hair.

The attending physician asked for a careful medical history and looked at the signs of the two people.

"When did the fever start?"

"I started it two days ago, and it has been above 38 degrees, and it hasn't gone down after taking antibiotics. In fact, three days ago, I started to feel unwell, I was tired, my arms and legs were sore, and I didn't want to eat. ”

The doctor pressed the skin on Chen Jiaming's neck with his hand.

With the exertion of the hand, the skin color changes from flush to yellow, and when you release the hand, it turns from yellow to flushed.

"When did the erythema on the neck and chest appear?"

"It was also two days ago that my wife showed up a little later than me. Chen Jiaming replied.

The doctor's eyes suddenly stopped at a scab on Chen Jiaming's shoulder.

"What's going on here?"

"Oh, I was bitten by a bug a few days ago, and it was very itchy at the time, I scratched it with my hands, and after scratching and bleeding, there was a blood clump. ”

After being bitten by insects, the whole body was weak, sore, fever, headache, and neurological symptoms, which reminded the old doctor who received the consultation of a disease that was epidemic in the sea of clouds many years ago - typhus.

The doctor asked, "Do you remember being bitten by some bug?"

"I don't know, but when I found it, I felt like my arm was itching. ”

The doctor examined Li Xiaohua's body again and found that there were also small scabs on Li Xiaohua's arms, and there were more than one, and there was some redness and swelling around the scabs.

"These little red spots with scabs were also bitten by bugs, do you remember what bugs they were bitten by?" the doctor asked Li Xiaohua.

"I don't know, my wife and I live in an urban village, where the sanitary conditions are relatively poor, and there are many mosquitoes, cockroaches, and bedbugs, but now it's almost winter, and there are no mosquitoes, so it shouldn't be mosquito bites. ”

Living in an urban village?

The old doctor once went to the urban village and knew that the environment there was all self-built houses, and every household had a yard, and there were many flowers and trees in the yard.

This environment is suitable for all kinds of insect and ant breeding.

"Recall that you have ever been bitten by a tick or a chigger mite, or a flea, lice, or something like a small animal?" the doctor tried to prompt.

Chen Jiaming remembered something, "Doctor, I remember, a few days ago there was a big rat dead in my grocery store, and I threw the rat into the garbage bag with my hand, and since then I have a rash on my body, and it was very itchy at that time." ”

Touched by dead rats!

Rats have parasites such as fleas, and when the rat dies, the fleas leave the mouse's carcass and look for a host in the surrounding organisms.

It seems that the patient in front of him has been bitten by a rat flea.

The experience of rat flea bites, fever, rashes on the body, headache, nausea, and neurological symptoms all indicate one result - murine typhus, also known as endemic typhus.

The attending doctor was admitted to the hospital with "fever to be investigated, suspected rickettsial disease".

After the patient was admitted to the hospital, the attending doctor immediately turned on the online reporting system and reported the suspected endemic typhus case he had just received to the epidemic network.

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Yunhai Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Emergency Office.

During the weekday, several members of the emergency response team were busy.

Since the last Thousand Buddha Temple turmoil, Yunhai City has been quiet for the past two days, and there has been neither food poisoning nor major infectious disease incidents.

Li Bai was on the phone to communicate with the Health Education Department about the publicity activities of the Food Safety Publicity Day.

Team members Yu Fei and Gao Meng are discussing the specifics of guiding the county rat density survey.

Zhang Lin is sorting out the Bretto index in various parts of Yunhai City this summer.

Yang Le quietly approached Zhang Lin with his mobile phone, "Hey, Zhang Lin, good news!"

Zhang Lin didn't look back, and continued to stare at the form on the computer screen, "What's the good news? You want to introduce me to a girlfriend?"

"Brother is also a bachelor dog now, but this news is similar to introducing a girlfriend. "What Yang Le said is mysterious.

Zhang Lin finally became interested and looked back at his phone.

On the mobile phone is a message that has just been announced on the center's website.

On the placement of interns this year.

"It's time for interns to come to intern again, what's the good news? Interns are here to learn, as long as they don't help, it's good, how much work can you expect them to do?"

Zhang Lin has a shadow on the interns.

Last year, there was a large-scale food poisoning outbreak in Yunhai City, and the emergency office led a team to investigate.

At that time, a group of medical students happened to come for internships, and several were in turn to the emergency office, so they brought those interns to the field together.

As a result, a girl was scalded by the boiling water in the back kitchen of the hotel because of careless operation.

Zhang Lin felt guilty about this matter, and at the same time had a psychological shadow on the interns, especially the female interns.

"Whoever wants them to help with the work, I mean there must be girls among the interns. ”

"Does that have anything to do with us? Every year, interns come to the center to rotate through various departments, and no matter how they rotate, none of them stay in our emergency office. ”

"You don't need them to stay, just a few months of internship can already provide enough opportunities to get along, you don't want to find a partner who also runs the scene to do the flow. ”

Yang Le longed.

Zhang Lin didn't hold out any hope, but was slightly resistant, "The people who hope to turn around are all boys." ”

Yang Le patted Zhang Lin's shoulder helplessly, "Brother, no wonder you have always been a single dog, and you don't know how to grasp the opportunity." ”