Chapter 12: The Small-Town Epidemic
"Go back and rest and recharge. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info" Nan Zhiqiao said lightly.
"Don't we have to help take care of the sick and watch out for anything?"
"There are doctors and nurses to take care of patients, vigilance is the business of the police, we are disease control personnel, and there are still many epidemiological things to solve. ”
"Oh. ”
Ye Zhenzhen followed behind Nan Zhiqiao and walked into the staff's rest tent, at this time, the sky was completely dark, and the black night sky was dotted with sparse stars.
The two of them had already taken off their protective clothing and stayed in the tent in ordinary clothes, in addition to two rows of beds in the tent, there were also simple lighting facilities, tables and chairs, Nan Zhiqiao took out a map from the folder and put it on the table, beckoning Ye Zhenzhen to the table.
Nan Zhiqiao pointed to the map and said, "This is a map near Turret Village, you can take a closer look and familiarize yourself with the terrain, it will be helpful for tomorrow's operation." ”
Ye Zhenzhen approached the map, looked down and looked carefully, it was a topographic map of the surroundings of Turret Village, including several villages and towns around Turret Village, as well as a map of the surrounding mountains, the largest of which was the back mountain of Turret Village-Turret Mountain.
The area of Fortress Mountain is quite large, the peaks are continuous, from the map, Fortress Village, Baizi Village, and several small villages and towns around are within the scope of Fortress Mountain.
Staring at the map on the table, Ye Zhenzhen analyzed: "Judging from the topography on the map, Paolou Village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it is convenient for grazing and raising livestock, and it is also possible to become a natural source of anthrax. ”
Nan Zhiqiao didn't speak, just looked at the map as well, and after a long time, he asked, "What else do you see?"
Ye Zhenzhen shook her head blankly, "I can't see the others, Senior Nan, what about you, have you found any problems?"
Nan Zhiqiao's hand pointed out three points on the map, namely Paolou Village, Baizi Village and the urban area of City B, and said: "From the sequence comparison results of your previous analysis of anthrax strains, the anthrax strain in Paolou Village and the urban area of City B may be the same strain, plus the words of the old village chief today, we can preliminarily suspect that the anthrax in the epidemic spread from Paolou Village through domestic animals to the urban area of City B, although the anthrax strain in Baizi Village has low homology with the anthrax strain in Paolou Village, but they are both anthrax epidemics, what do these two villages have in common?"
Ye Zhenzhen followed Nan Zhiqiao's gaze to look at the map, and the eyes of the two were fixed on an area on the map at the same time, "Turret Mountain!"
Turret Hill is the link between the two villages, will there be the source of the epidemic here?
Ye Zhenzhen thought to herself, in addition to investigating in the Turret Village tomorrow, it is also necessary to investigate the Turret Mountain behind.
Just as he was about to say what he thought, Nan Zhiqiao's mobile phone suddenly rang.
Picking up the mobile phone and listening to the news coming from the mobile phone, Nan Zhiqiao's face was heavy, "Isolate the town first, send the patients to the town hospital for isolation and treatment, and protect the epidemic scene, I will bring people over immediately." ”
Nan Zhiqiao hung up the phone, and Ye Zhenzhen asked anxiously, "Senior Nan, what's wrong?"
"There were new cases, two deaths in the nearest town, and a dozen suspected anthrax patients, and we rushed over overnight to ask for CDC support. ”
There are also cases in the town, this is the rhythm of the spread of the epidemic, Ye Zhenzhen's heart sank, but seeing Nan Zhiqiao's calm face, Ye Zhenzhen felt that she had courage in her heart, so she simply packed up the things to bring to the epidemic site, and followed Nan Zhiqiao into the disease control car to the town site.
There are not many people in the car, Nan Zhiqiao and Ye Zhenzhen of the China CDC, as well as the section chief of an on-site department of disease control in city B, surnamed Zhang, director Wang of disease control in G province, plus the driver, a total of five people.
Five people rushed to the scene of the epidemic in the town and found that the local county disease control staff had isolated the scene.
The fatal case in the town was found in a pig slaughterhouse, and the death was caused by two pig killers, and a dozen or so patients were also slaughterhouse workers, including the owner of the slaughterhouse.
Nan Zhiqiao simply divided the disease control staff into groups, a group of people to maintain order on the scene, a group of people to collect specimens, including human, environmental, especially the collection of raw pork, even the surrounding soil was also collected, the specimens were collected, and directly sent to the city CDC laboratory for testing, and a group of people asked about the contact history of the patient, Ye Zhenzhen and Nan Zhiqiao were in this group.
The owner of the slaughterhouse confessed that the pigs in the slaughterhouse were purchased from nearby villages, including Paolou Village, and the workers in the slaughterhouse began to have fever symptoms three days ago, thinking that it was just a common cold, but they did not expect the disease to progress rapidly, but in three days, two people died, and when they saw someone die, the workers in the slaughterhouse panicked and ran to the town hospital, which found out that it was an infectious disease.
All the patients were questioned, and Ye Zhenzhen and Nan Zhiqiao discussed: "Now from Paolou Village to the small town, and then to the urban area of City B, the transmission path of anthrax through livestock and pigs is becoming clearer and clearer, and now what we are looking for is the source of the epidemic in Paolou Village and Baizi Village." ”
After dealing with the epidemic in the town, it was already one o'clock in the morning, in order to work on the spot the next day, Ye Zhenzhen and Nan Zhiqiao took a car back to the camp in front of Gunlou Village, Director Wang of the Disease Control and Prevention of Province G, and Section Chief Zhang of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of City B also returned together, and the epidemic in the town was handed over to the local county CDC to deal with.
On the way back to Paolou Village, the people in the car fell asleep, but Ye Zhenzhen opened her eyes and looked out of the car window, without any sleep.
Nan Zhiqiao next to him was closing his eyes, leaning on his seat, and he didn't know if he was asleep, Ye Zhenzhen was shocked by the scene in the town just now on a business trip to the scene of the epidemic, not only because of the symptoms of the patient, but also because of the panic of the residents of the town about the sudden epidemic, especially the expressions of the residents when they saw the disease control personnel wearing white protective clothing in and out, with hope in horror, that kind of look made Ye Zhenzhen unforgettable for life.
Staring at the lights of thousands of homes outside the car window, Ye Zhenzhen couldn't help but sigh softly.
"Zhenzhen, what's wrong?"
Nan Zhiqiao heard a sigh, suddenly opened his eyes, and asked softly.
"It's okay, Senior Nan, did I make a noise with you?" Ye Zhenzhen recovered from her fugue state, looking at Nan Zhiqiao's slightly tired face, feeling a little sorry.
"I didn't sleep just now, I just closed my eyes and recuperated, you can't sleep. ”
"Hmm. Ye Zhenzhen nodded, and couldn't help but think of Baizi Village, Turret Village, and all the things she saw in the town.
"I remember the first time I went out on a disease control mission, it was also your current state, there was excitement, shock, emotion, and after all these feelings, what remained was a kind of responsibility, a responsibility as a disease control person. Nan Zhiqiao rarely said his past experiences and feelings to comfort Ye Zhenzhen.