Nan Zhiqiao stood beside Ye Zhenzhen with a grim expression, "To control this epidemic, the strength of medical staff alone is not enough, we need the help of the police." ”

In special cases, it is necessary to rely on the police to maintain order.

The riots in the town of Keith were reflected in the government departments and, at the request of the International Assistance Team, led to the dispatch of police and troops by the Government of Sierra Leone.

The epidemic spread rapidly with the departure of many symptomatic carriers of the new virus, who were robbed out of temporary health centres, taken home by their families, moved to other places by their families to hide, and disappeared.

Previously, it was enough to quarantine a makeshift medical center, but now, the entire town of Keyes and the surrounding villages and tribes are in quarantine.

The town of Case is surrounded by mountains on three sides, one side is by the river, the mountains are forested, and the river on the east side is wide and fast.

The army, which is responsible for maintaining the order of the segregation, has put up barbed wire fences on the mountain roads on three sides of the town of Keith, prohibiting people from the town of Keith and the surrounding villages from leaving, and on the river to the east, there are small boats patrolling by army, prohibiting the people of the town from leaving by water.

The whole town of Case is only accessible but not out.

As the epidemic spreads, more and more people are dying one after another throughout the town of Case and the surrounding villages, and more and more people have symptoms such as red eyes and bleeding, and more medical staff are needed to treat these people.

The outbreak of an outbreak caused by an unknown virus in the small town of Keith, with severe symptoms and a high fatality rate, and the horror of the epidemic was more severe and ferocious than that of the Ebola epidemic that year, and the news quickly spread around the world.

Nan Zhiqiao, Ye Zhenzhen, and two other infectious disease experts from China joined the rescue medical team in Case Town as foreign aid experts, and international organizations such as Médecins Sans Frontières and the Red Cross also sent medical personnel, plus doctors and nurses temporarily transferred from Freetown and Kenema, and now there are more than 30 medical personnel in Case Town.

The small town of Keith has a population of more than 6,000 people, plus the nearby village tribes, as well as two large timber processing plants, which number nearly 7,000.

Thirty people care for 7,000 people, and the number of medical staff is far from enough.

Due to the outbreak of the epidemic, the schools in Case Town were closed, the shops were closed, and the daily necessities in the supermarket were sold out for a long time, and every family closed their doors.

In the town of Case during the day, the streets are silent, like a scary ghost town.

The square of the school in the center of the town was requisitioned as a temporary medical center, and dozens of white medical tents were erected on the school square.

Medical staff went door-to-door every morning, and symptomatic people were placed in medical tents in the school square for isolation and treatment.

The horror of death permeates the town.

Some of the townspeople began to want to flee the place, and some drove to try to break through the checkpoints set up by the army on the way in and out, and in the clashes, the drivers were shot and killed by the soldiers.

Others tried to escape into the rainforest near the town of Keith, separated by a thin barbed wire fence, and those who tried to escape were shot by the army, just like the driver who had done it before.

The bodies of the escapees were dragged back to the town by soldiers in protective suits, and these two incidents played a role in killing one hundred people, and the residents of the town no longer thought about escaping, but a deeper sense of fear and abandonment fermented in the crowd.

International aid supplies continue to be delivered to the town of Keith, and basic daily necessities such as food and water are airdropped by helicopter into a fixed location in the town, and local security soldiers are responsible for distributing them.

Paramedics enter and leave the town of Case by hospital boats on the river to the east.

On the wide river, in addition to the military boats patrolling back and forth, the most conspicuous thing is the two white medical boats connected together, which is the gray area leading from the outside world to the epidemic area of the small town of Case.

Outside medical staff changed into biohazard suits on a white medical boat, and then entered the small town of Keith through the boat.

The number of sick people is increasing every day, the death toll is rising, and more medical staff are needed to deal with the sick and the dead.

Dr. Mu's team, which was conducting a clinical trial of the Ebola vaccine at the Kenema Government Hospital, was also terminated due to the epidemic, and all members came to the town of Keith to participate in medical assistance, and Merck, an emergency doctor at the government hospital, also joined the rescue team.

The job of the medical rescue team is to care for the sick and dispose of the dead bodies on a daily basis.

The symptoms of this outbreak are very similar to those of Ebola virus infection, with red eyes and bleeding all over the body, and psychiatric symptoms at the end of the course of the disease.

In the last two days of the disease, some patients will become violent and attack the medical staff around them, while others will strip naked and run out into the street, screaming loudly.

For the disposal of corpses, uniform incineration measures are adopted.

Wearing a spacesuit-like biosafety suit, Ye Zhenzhen works in the makeshift medical center in the town's school square every day, treating patients in the early stages of the disease symptomaticly, dealing with terminally ill patients with mental disorders, and sometimes helping to wrap the bodies in hospital beds in body bags and carry them out of the medical tent.

After a few busy days, Ye Zhenzhen's original fear, worry, and pity gradually became numb, a kind of numbness under continuous psychological stimulation, too much pain, too many tears and fear, too much death, let Ye Zhenzhen feel the power of a virulent infectious disease for the first time, its power is enough to destroy the race, and bring the crowd an apocalyptic horror feeling.

Nan Zhiqiao is also a member of the medical team, mainly responsible for the division of labor between the entire medical team, because there is no specific drug for the new virus, even the diagnostic reagents for the new virus have been developed, and the isolation treatment standard is only a clinical symptom, so Nan Zhiqiao stepped up to urge the progress of domestic new virus research.

Li Guoyi from Guojing Medical Center reported that the polyclonal antibody made of the new virus isolated from the Irus specimen had a weak cross-immune response with Ebola virus and Marburg virus, which showed that the new virus, as a member of the genus Filovirus, has the same immune antigen as the other two viruses of the same genus.

Nan Zhiqiao analyzed the research situation fed back from Li Guoyi, since the new virus has similar common antigens with other viruses of the same genus, then the Ebola vaccine may have a certain protective effect against the new virus.

Based on this, Nan Zhiqiao suggested that residents in the small town of Keith who are not yet asymptomatic be vaccinated with the Ebola vaccine, hoping that this measure will improve the immunity of the uninfected population to the new virus.

The Ebola vaccine, which was supposed to be used for clinical trials, was quickly transferred to the small town of Case, and medical staff vaccinated the asymptomatic residents overnight.

For a day and a night, most of the town's asymptomatic residents were vaccinated against Ebola, and just as the vaccination work was coming to an end, a black doctor in a white hazmat suit suddenly fainted.