Chapter 16 Incidence of onset
Find the virus canister that is being atomized, the emergency team builds an adult ladder, and Nan Zhiqiao removes the virus canister from the branch and turns off the nebulization device.
"Director Nan, do you want to continue to follow the footprints?" someone in the emergency team asked.
"No, go back to the village of Yager first. ”
Nan Zhiqiao tested the weight of the virus jar, there was still a small half jar of liquid in it, in addition to the weight of the jar, there were more than a dozen milliliters in it, it seemed that the atomization device had not been opened for a long time.
Nan Zhiqiao: "The virus has already atomized partially, and at the speed at which it spreads, it will quickly infect people within a radius of several kilometers, and the villagers of Yager Village are in danger. ”
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The woods in the south are only half a kilometer away from Yager Village, and when Nan Zhiqiao returns to Yager Village with the emergency team, he finds an amazing scene.
The villagers of Yage Village had been summoned by a team of emergency teams left behind in the small square at the entrance of the village, and the originally quiet crowd suddenly stirred.
Some of the villagers felt breathless and coughed, then suddenly fell to the ground, their whole body spasmed, and then they began to bleed from their mouth and nose, and their skin began to ulcerate and rot.
Similar symptoms began to appear in the crowd, and the villagers panicked, did not know what was going on, and began to flee in all directions, trying to get out of the place.
However, the villagers did not run far before they all collapsed spasmodically.
One of the remaining disease control personnel did not use the protective clothing according to the protocol, because the heat took off the protective mask, and the virus entered the body through the gaps in the protective clothing, and he quickly developed symptoms similar to those of the villagers, coughing and vomiting blood, ulcering and spasmodizing all over the body.
The local CDC staff had never seen such a scene, and they were shocked and didn't know how to deal with it for a while.
"Director Nan, this ...... What's the matter? Symptoms of viral infection don't appear so quickly, could it be biochemical poison gas like sarin?" one of the disease control personnel asked Nan Zhiqiao while scrambling to take care of his sick colleague.
Nan Zhiqiao: "There is no virus that can make people sick so quickly, but it is entirely possible that there is no unknown virus. ”
Nan Zhiqiao and other disease control personnel who did not become ill injected antiviral drugs into the villagers, as well as various vaccines brought by Nan Zhiqiao, which were all vaccines against the pathogenic genes contained in the new virus synthesized with different bacterial strains based on the information provided by Alex.
The effect of antiviral drugs and various vaccines is not obvious, the villagers who did not have time to be vaccinated died within 20 minutes, and those who were injected died within an hour.
All 68 villagers in Yage village died within an hour, as did a local disease control worker who did not wear protective clothing as required.
In the face of sixty-nine corpses, the surviving disease control team, except for Nan Zhiqiao, has all been blinded.
Everyone looked at Nan Zhiqiao, as an expert from the national disease control and control, he should put forward suggestions for action at this time.
Nan Zhiqiao: "Please ask the local health department and the police to help seal off the 10-kilometer radius of Yage Village and investigate the whereabouts of the footprints in the rainforest. ”
"Director Nan, what about you?"
"I have to go back to the lab with the new virus, find the pathogen, figure out its characteristics, and control the outbreak. ”
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CDC Laboratories, China.
The specimens brought back by Nan Zhiqiao and Zhen Zhen respectively have begun to be tested and analyzed.
First, nucleic acids were extracted, gene sequences were analyzed, viruses were purified, electron microscope images were taken, and animal pathology experiments were carried out in the P4 laboratory......
Various results are coming out one after another.
As expected, viruses exist in strange ways.
The new virus presents different forms under different conditions, with 35 degrees Celsius as the cut-off point, at temperatures above 35 °C, the new virus is filamentous, that is, similar to the morphology of the Ebola virus, and when it encounters temperatures below 35 °C, the new virus shrinks into a bullet shape, similar to the rabies virus of the rhabdoviridae family.
This is the first time that a virus that metamorphoses at different temperatures has been discovered.
In addition to the strange external appearance, the genetic characteristics of the new virus are even more bizarre.
The genome of the new virus contains the pathogenic genes of different viruses such as Ebola, rabies, and Khantanvirus, as well as a piece of artificially encoded genes that are sequentially combined to express different pathogenic traits.
Artificially edited viral genes make the new virus pathogenic different from any other gene-derived strain.
The new virus has both the neurotropic nature of rhabdovirus and the hemorrhage of Ebola virus and Khantavirus, and even shows a more rapid ability to multiply, which can grow rapidly in the subcutaneous tissue, causing human skin to react like exposure to biochemical toxic gases.
The results of animal pathological experiments on the new virus made Nan Zhiqiao and Zhen Zhen even more worried.
Experimental animals infected by the new virus died quickly in a short period of time, and several existing vaccines and antiviral drugs did not work.
Although the USB flash drive data brought by Alex before contained information on antiviral drugs, this part of the information was written in ciphers, and Alex's ability could not be cracked for a while.
It will take a lot of time to develop our own vaccines and drugs that can target new viruses.
At present, everyone is facing the situation that Bavar has a sufficient amount of new viruses and does not know where to hide, and he may release new viruses at any time, which will be a devastating blow to humanity.
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While Nan Zhiqiao and Zhen Zhen were nervously conducting experiments in the CDC laboratory, Alex sent a message from Tinder 1, "I found some clues about Bavar. ”
Everyone made an appointment to meet at Tinder No. 1 Base.
Tinder No. 1 Base is the most secret place in the Nanmu Group, with a huge underground laboratory, but from the outside, it is just a private manor in the mountain jungle - Jasmine Villa.
Nan Zhiqiao, Ye Zhenzhen, Liang Chen, You Kexin and Alex, the five of them gathered in the underground conference room of Tinder 1 Base.
Alex retrieved a document and projected it in the center of the large conference room with a stereoscopic image, and explained, "This is the information I found with the blood sample that Bavar left at Tinder 1. ”
In the video, a group of children in tattered clothes are locked in a room, and those children have the appearance of Middle Eastern Arabs.
"It's just a group of foreign children from a long time ago, what does this have to do with Bavar?" Liang Chen asked puzzled.
Alex pointed to one of the images with a laser pointer, "Look, what is this?"
On one side of the room is a soldier-like figure standing on the side of the room, with a prominent swastika on the armband on his armband.
"This is a photo from World War II?!" Liang Chen blurted out, "What does such an old photo have to do with Bavar?"
"Look at this little boy. Alex pointed a laser pointer at a young boy in the image, "His name is Albert Eitan, who was forced to participate in an experiment in a Nazi concentration camp, and the results of his blood research are among the materials preserved, and I also found a dried blood sample from a museum of World War II relics, which was compared to the exact same genes as Bavar. ”