Chapter 2: Tales of the Savages

Grandma replied tremblingly: "Legend has it that there are wild people in the forest park, and it has been in the past six months, I haven't seen it, and I also heard from your uncle." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Zhen Zhen looked at her uncle, who put down the dishes and chopsticks, and said seriously: "This is true, I saw it with my own eyes." ”

"Uncle, have you ever seen a wild man with your own eyes?"

The uncle shook his head, "It's not a wild man, but a person who was bitten by a wild man went crazy and died." ”

Zhen Zhen stared at her uncle with questioning eyes and asked, "How do you know that the man who went crazy and died was bitten by a wild man?"

The uncle began to describe vividly: "I usually don't often deliver goods between the city and the ancient town, this spring, once, when I was delivering goods, my arm was slightly injured, and I was sent to the emergency department of the First People's Hospital of L City, in the emergency room, I found a man who was sent in, trembling and hiding in the corner of the emergency room, drooling at the corner of his mouth, and kept muttering, 'I was bitten by a wild man, I was going ......to die', I was curious, so I asked him, 'Where were you bitten by a wild man?', and he replied' In the forest park', and then I wanted to ask again, but the man suddenly went berserk, and bit when he saw someone, but fortunately I was restrained by the doctors and nurses present, otherwise, I would have been bitten by him. ”

"After that?" asked Ye Zhenzhen curiously.

"After that, when I went to change the medicine the next day, I heard that the mad man had died that night, and since then, there have been rumors that there are wild men in that forest park, and after being bitten by wild people, they will go crazy and die. ”

Ye Zhenzhen didn't believe in any savage legends, but since her uncle saw a sick person go crazy and die, the crazy man must have some kind of disease.

Ye Zhenzhen asked curiously: "Uncle, do you know what the symptoms of the person who went crazy and died at that time were?"

The uncle tilted his head and thought for a while, and said: "At that time, after the man was sent to the emergency room, he was sweating profusely, trembling and curled up in the corner of the emergency room, as if he was afraid of the surrounding environment, the corners of his mouth were still drooling, someone talked to him, he was nervous and didn't dare to answer, his mouth kept muttering, he was bitten by a wild man, and he was going to die, and after that, he suddenly went crazy, and bit when he saw someone, fortunately, he was subdued in time." ”

The brother-in-law paused, and then said: "At that time, I heard from the family members who sent him to the hospital that this man had been to the 5A-level national forest park on the outskirts of L City a month before going to the hospital, and was bitten by a wild man with a cloak in an undeveloped forest area. I didn't want to eat, I thought it was a cold, and later, the wound bitten by the savage, although it healed, but there was an itchy feeling near the wound, in the man's own words, it was like a lot of ants crawling on the arm, this feeling lasted for two days, the family felt wrong, so they sent him to the hospital, and then the situation was what I saw in the emergency room at that time, the next day, when I went to the hospital to change the dressing, I heard the little nurse say, that night, the crazy man was sent to a separate ward, the man was completely insane, he convulsed when he heard a little sound, and after a few hours, he quieted down, and the man fell into a coma after calming down。 ”

Speaking of this, the uncle sighed and said, "When it was almost dawn, the mad man died. ”

After listening to her uncle's description, Zhen Zhen began to analyze in her heart that the man who went crazy and died, the symptoms before death were very similar to rabies, and he had the experience of being bitten by animals or patients before the onset of the disease, and after being bitten, he experienced the typical four stages of rabies.

Zhen Zhen looked at her grandmother, who was convinced of her uncle's words, and felt that there must be wild people in the forest park, and her grandfather, who was usually calm, also said: "It is the over-exploitation of the primeval forest by human beings that will cause wild people to appear, and this is God's punishment for those who enter the forbidden land without permission." ”

My aunt, who has never said much, also said: "I heard my grandfather say that before the development of that national forest park, there was a mysterious cave in a big mountain in the middle, and there were messengers of hell living in it. ”

Zhen Zhen asked: "When I was a child, I went to that forest park many times with my uncle, and there was no problem. ”

The aunt hurriedly explained: "That's because the mountain was not developed before, so it was fine, but later, that is, half a year ago, the forest park was expanded, and two mountains were developed to the primeval forest area in the south, and since then, there have been wild man legends." ”

The uncle also echoed and said: "Your aunt is right, since half a year ago, after the expansion of the forest park, many people have heard the earth-shaking sound in the valley of the primeval forest area in the morning and evening, and some people say that it is the mountain god who is angry and wants to come out to punish the people who destroy the forest." ”

Ye Zhenzhen smiled, "Mountain God, uncle, although I don't know what that earth-shaking voice is, but it's definitely not a mountain god, I'm an atheist, so naturally I don't believe in any mountain gods." ”

Seeing that Zhen Zhen didn't believe it, the uncle asked: "But the man who went crazy and died was seen with my own eyes, he said that he was bitten to death by a wild man, this is the punishment of the mountain god, and you won't believe it." ”

Zhen Zhen nodded, "Uncle saw it with his own eyes, I believe your words, but the savage, the mountain god, and the uncle didn't see it with his own eyes, so I don't count these, as for the man who went crazy and died, he should have rabies." ”

"Rabies?" asked everyone at the dinner table in unison.

Zhen Zhen explained: "Judging from the symptoms of the man who died of madness described by my uncle, it is in line with the typical stage of rabies. ”

"Are you sure about the rabies stage?"

"Hmm. Zhen Zhen nodded and said, "Rabies can be divided into the latent phase, the prodromal phase, the excitable phase and the paralytic phase, and the symptoms of each stage are different. After a person is bitten by an animal carrying the rabies virus, it is possible to enter the typical stage 4 of rabies if they are not vaccinated against rabies.

First of all, it is the first stage, the incubation period, the incubation period of rabies is generally about 20 to 90 days, and individual cases can be from 10 days to more than a year.

In the second stage, the prodromal stage, most patients have low-grade fever, loss of appetite, nausea, headache, fatigue, and general malaise, such as symptoms of a cold, followed by fear and restlessness, sensitivity to sound, light, wind, pain, etc., and a feeling of tightness in the throat. Paresthesias, numbness, itching, pain and ant walking sensation in and around the wound are caused by the stimulation of neurons during the multiplication of the virus and last for two to four days. ”