Chapter 29 Isolation of serum

As soon as he heard that Dr. Mu was also infected, Nan Zhiqiao's head thumped, and his mind came to mind the situation when his mother died in Africa due to the Ebola epidemic.

Nan Zhiqiao's panic when he received the call, Ye Zhenzhen saw it in her eyes.

Ye Zhenzhen asked tentatively, "Senior Nan, do you want to go back to Case Town to see Doctor Mu?"

"No!" Nan Zhiqiao shook his head, "Until I find a cure for the new virus, I go back to no avail." ”

Reason triems emotion, and Nan no Qiao decides to stay at the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Center until he finds a cure for the new virus.

In the laboratory of the Center for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Nan Zhiqiao is responsible for drawing blood and testing antibodies for live bats and monkeys.

Li Guoyi flew over the new viruses, mutated new virus strains, multiple antibodies, and specific PCR primers for detecting new viruses cultivated in domestic laboratories.

Nan Zhiqiao used the strain sent to detect antibodies against the new virus in bat blood and monkey blood.

Vera uses specific PCR primers to detect bat droppings, monkey carcasses, spiders, and other cave insects.

Dr. Sky takes care of everything else in the lab and keeps the experiment running smoothly.

Soon, Nan Zhiqiao detected antibodies against the new virus in bat blood and monkey blood, Ye Zhenzhen also detected new viruses in insectivorous bat feces and monkey corpses, but no new viruses were found in spiders and other cave insects.

Combined with what was observed in the rainforest, there were no mass deaths in the bat colony, and a large number of members of the monkey colony died.

The results of the test and the death of the host animal were analyzed, and it was concluded that the insectivorous bat was the natural storage host of the new virus and had a long-term coexistence relationship with the new virus, and the monkey was the host of the new virus and had certain immunity to the new virus.

Two serum antibodies were found, which one was effective in humans?

In extraordinary times, it is directly applied to patients, and the effect is the fastest and most direct.

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Nan Zhiqiao rushed back to the town of Case with the serum isolated from the insectivorous bats and monkeys.

Two kinds of serum, one for different patients.

A miracle happened, the experimental patients gradually recovered, and the body functions that were about to be defeated by the new virus slowly recovered under the action of serum, and both serums worked.

The problem now is that the number of bats and monkeys brought back from the forest trip is small, and the isolated serum is even rarer, and there are now more than 3,000 confirmed infected patients in the small town of Keis, plus the infected villagers in the villages around the town of Keis, and similar cases in the city of Kenema in the past two days, the demand for treatment serum is huge.

Nan Zhiqiao sent a part of the serum back to China, and used the advanced experimental conditions of the China CDC and Guojing Medical Center to determine the antiviral active ingredients in the serum, and then amplified the antiviral serum in large quantities.

Living up to expectations, in a short period of time, the active ingredients in the serum isolated from the forest trip were determined, and using molecular cloning technology and a large number of experimental animals, the therapeutic serum was mass-produced and transported to the town of Case in time.

Organized by a local medical team, the townspeople were injected with the treatment serum in an orderly manner.

A new outbreak of a species-destroying virus is gradually brought under control.

The number of troops stationed around the town of Case has also gradually decreased, and the residents of the town, who have hope, have begun to voluntarily cooperate with the management of the army and medical personnel, and there has been no more violent clashes.

A week after the application of the therapeutic serum, there were no new cases in the small town of Case, and the outbreak was completely under control.

The troops around the town were withdrawn, the temporary medical center in the school square in the center of the town was gradually reduced, and the recovered townspeople returned to their homes.

Shops opened, schools began to reopen, and the normal order of life in the town began.

Aid medical teams have also begun to evacuate the town of Keith.

After seven days of treatment, Dr. Mu's condition stabilized, and Dr. Mu was transferred to the government hospital in Kenema at the same time that Minami no Joe left the town of Keys.

Nan Zhiqiao's mission to Sierra Leone was originally to carry out assistance training, but he didn't expect to suddenly encounter an epidemic caused by a new virus, the epidemic was fierce, the death toll was large, the town of Case was forcibly quarantined, and after everyone died nine times, fortunately, the treatment serum was finally found, the epidemic was stopped, and Nan Zhiqiao's mission was completed.

As for the task of Dr. Mu's team, the clinical trial of the Ebola vaccine had to be interrupted due to the sudden outbreak of a new virus epidemic, and the Ebola trial vaccine brought by it was also used in the epidemic.

At the end of the mission, Nan Zhiqiao and Ye Zhenzhen prepared to return to China with the members of the expert group, and because Dr. Mu had not fully recovered, he had to be hospitalized in Kenema Government Hospital for a few more days for observation, and after being discharged, he had to sort out the results of the clinical trial of the Ebola vaccine that had been conducted before the outbreak of the new virus.

On the very day that the group was preparing to return home, Professor Bawar called again.

The bad news came that Dr. Mu had died suddenly at the Kenema Government Hospital.

Nan Zhi Qiao thought that he had misheard, and Professor Bavar repeated it twice with certainty, and Nan Zhi Qiao finally believed it.

Professor Bavar asked Nan Zhiqiao how to deal with the aftermath of Dr. Mu.

Nan Zhiqiao postponed his return trip to China and rushed back to Kenema, and Ye Zhenzhen followed Nan Zhiqiao.

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Dr. Mu's body is parked in the hospital's morgue at Kenema Government Hospital.

Nan Zhiqiao and Ye Zhenzhen, led by Professor Bavar and hospital staff, saw Dr. Mu's body.

The corpse was cold, and the eyes were closed on its stiff face, and no expression could be seen.

Nan Zhiqiao, who has always been calm, almost fell down, and Ye Zhenzhen beside him hurriedly helped him, and Nan Zhiqiao came to his senses.

"Senior Nan, are you okay?"

Nan Zhiqiao tried to suppress the sadness in his heart and asked Professor Bavar, who came with him, "When did Dr. Mu die?"

"This morning, when the nurse was rounding the ward, she found him lying motionless on the bed, and the nurse wanted to take his temperature according to the daily work routine, and he shouted twice but did not respond, and the examination found that he was no longer breathing, and his body was already cold. ”

"Was there anything unusual during the rounds last night?"

"I've looked at the medical records and everything is fine except for the platelets that are still a little low. ”

Nan no Joe quickly analyzed the information that Professor Bavar had said.

Is low platelets due to death caused by sudden bleeding in some vital organs of the body?

This was also the case in the makeshift medical center in the small town of Case, where an elderly man who had been injected with the treatment serum suddenly died of a cerebral hemorrhage while his body was gradually recovering.

Nan Zhiqiao was silent for two seconds, the oppressive atmosphere in the morgue was uncomfortable, and suddenly, Nan Zhiqiao said coldly: "I want to dissect Dr. Mu's body." ”