There was no other way but to let Dr. Sky communicate with the village.

Nan Zhiqiao and Ye Zhenzhen waited at the entrance of the village, and Dr. Sky followed one of the black men into the village, and the remaining black man, holding an improvised spear in his hand, stared warily at the two strangers behind the barricade.

Ye Zhenzhen originally wanted to get out of the car and take a look nearby, but her scalp was numb when she was stared at by the black man on the other side of the roadblock, and she dispelled the idea of getting out of the car.

Nan Zhiqiao looked very calm, sitting in the driving seat of the off-road vehicle, tilting his head sideways, looking at the surrounding rainforest scenery.

Ye Zhenzhen asked curiously, "Senior Nan, what are you looking at?"

"It depends on whether the environment here is the same as the forest environment that Irus entered. ”

Aeloth was the first case of the outbreak and was exposed to an environment where pathogens were likely to be hidden.

Ye Zhenzhen: "Is it the same?"

According to Dr. Sky's description, there are rivers, valleys, and caves in the forest where Eros hunts, and the geographical and ecological environment is more complex than here, but the forest is not far from the village of Sanger, and the climatic conditions are similar, so there should be similarities. ”

"Senior Nan, according to your speculation, what will be the storage host carrying the new virus?"

"Monkeys, bats, rats, rabbits, spiders, birds, mosquitoes...... Any animal is possible. ”

"Elous was infected because he came into contact with these suspicious animals, right?"

"It could also be that you came into contact with the urine and feces excreted by those animals, or breathed the air contaminated with excrement, and there are many ways in which the virus can be transmitted, and the possibility of airborne transmission cannot be ruled out at this time. ”

If the new virus has spread to the air, it will be quite difficult to control the outbreak.

Just as Nan Zhiqiao and Ye Zhenzhen were analyzing the causes of the epidemic, Dr. Sky took an elderly black fat old man and slowly walked from the village to the entrance of the village.

Stopping in front of the roadblock, the black fat old man looked quite dignified, looking at the off-road vehicle outside the roadblock, and the two foreigners on the off-road vehicle, Dr. Sky explained in local language on the side, the black fat old man finally nodded, stretched out his hand, and made a gesture of giving way.

Dr. Sky happily shouted in English to the two outside, "The chief promised, the car stays outside, and you two can come in." ”

Nan Zhiqiao and Ye Zhenzhen got out of the car, each carrying a medical suitcase, wearing masks and gloves, and walked around the branches that fell on the road and entered the village.

The people in the village speak the local Aboriginal language, and because it was a British colony a long time ago, there are many English words mixed in the Aboriginal language, and just listening to these English words, you can understand the meaning, and if there are some things you don't understand, Dr. Sky acts as an interpreter.

The chief led three doctors from outside to an open field on the side of the village, where freshly burned clothes and mattresses were located.

Dr. Sky translated the chief's words, "Since Kupper's death, people in the village have been sick one after another, Kupper's wife Nana also died yesterday, his sister and son are also dying, and several people in the surrounding neighborhood are bleeding, and the people in the village say that Kupper brought the plague back to the village, so they took his clothes and bed here and burned it." ”

Nan Zhiqiao asked to see the other sick people in the village, the chief led the team, and Dr. Sky acted as an interpreter, and after a visit, there were six people in the whole village who showed symptoms such as red eyes and fever, and these six people were all people who had physical contact with Kupper at the funeral.

Six people, a big number for a remote African village, is a signal of a ripple effect of the epidemic for healthcare workers.

Nan Zhiqiao suggested that the six people who showed symptoms, and the 12 people who came into contact with the symptomatic people, go to the temporary medical tent next to the clinic in Case Town for isolation and observation treatment.

The makeshift medical tent next to the Keith Town Clinic was temporarily erected by Kenema Government Hospital, the Infectious Disease Control Center, and an international medical team to contain the outbreak.

The epidemic has developed more rapidly and seriously than Nan Zhiqiao expected.

People who already have symptoms in Sanger village have little problem going to the town's temporary health center for treatment, but people who have no symptoms do not want to go to the health center.

Communicating with the chief about the severity of the matter, the chief finally agreed to go to the medical center in the small town of Case if they had symptoms and came into contact with them.

Eighteen people were sent to a temporary medical center in the small town of Case, where symptomatic people were isolated for treatment, and asymptomatic people were isolated for observation, and the two areas were strictly isolated in the middle to prevent cross-infection.

In the afternoon of the same day, staff wearing bioprotective clothing carried out a comprehensive disinfection of Sange Village.

As a member of the expert group of the medical team stationed in Case Town, Nan Zhiqiao is responsible for analyzing and controlling the entire epidemic situation and coming up with a specific diagnosis and treatment plan in addition to observing and treating patients.

At present, the criteria for isolation observation and treatment are only clinical symptoms and people who have been in contact with the deceased, and this standard is not supported by laboratory test data and is not convincing.

To compensate for this shortcoming, it is necessary to understand the nature of the new virus, as well as to develop a detection method for the new virus, and more importantly, to develop a drug that can treat the new virus.

Because it is far from the advanced laboratory conditions in China, Nan Zhiqiao pinned his hopes on the laboratory of the CDC Gao Institute in China and Li Guoyi of the Guojing Medical Center.

There has been no new research on the new virus that caused the outbreak, and a new situation has emerged in the small town of Case.

In the makeshift medical center, asymptomatic people who were quarantined for observation began to develop symptoms of fever, red eyes, and bleeding, including 12 asymptomatic contacts sent from Sange village.

Symptomatic people began to die, asymptomatic people began to develop symptoms one after another, and a terrifying and oppressive atmosphere in the makeshift medical center permeated people's minds.

While asymptomatic people are sick, because the medical center prevents the spread of the epidemic, it has made regulations to strictly regulate the entry and exit of family members in and out of the medical center.

The medical center's decision angered the villagers of Sange village, as well as other family members of the patients.

Panicked locals, armed with sticks and other weapons, broke into the medical center, robbed the patients, looted the medical equipment, and in a matter of minutes, the carefully assembled makeshift medical center was ransacked.

The patient left, several black local nurses also ran away, and some medical staff tried to stop the looting crowd and were injured.

Dr. Sky was in the makeshift medical center at the time, but fortunately he was clever enough to see that the situation was out of control, so he hid in a corner and was not injured.

At the time of the riot at the temporary medical center in Case Town, Nan Zhiqiao was taking Ye Zhenzhen to do a flu investigation at the South Valley Lumber Mill in the south of the town, so he escaped.

When I received a call from Dr. Sky and returned to the place where the incident occurred, the temporary medical center, which was usually clean and orderly, was already in shambles.

Ye Zhenzhen looked at the injured colleagues, the messy medical environment, and the empty hospital bed, and sighed: "The epidemic that was finally controlled is about to spread again." ”