The bus station in the small town of Case is not far from the home of Aelous.

As the person in charge of the lumber mill, worried about his employees, Li Gang decided to accompany Elous to the government hospital in Kenema.

Li Gang originally had his own scooter, but the car had just been stolen from two tires yesterday and was reported to the police, but the police only registered, and the thief had not been caught, and the car was sent to the repair shop.

Without a scooter, Li Gang could only accompany Ayrus on the bus.

The road from Keith Town to Kenema was bumpy, and Irus sat by the window, and Li Gang sat side by side with Elous in the middle corridor.

The bus was bumpy all the way, and Elous started to get motion sickness.

Li Gang retrieved two plastic bags from the driver, and Irus kept vomiting, and the asphalt-like slimy liquid was vomited into the bags, and the smell of blood filled the entire car.

The passengers on the bus looked at Elous with strange eyes.

Eros's eyes were red and swollen, the corners of his mouth were covered with black-red liquid, and his nose was bleeding.

Li Gang, who was sitting on the side, felt that the situation of Elous was very bad, and asked with concern: "How do you feel?

Hearing Li Gang's words, Elous nodded Mu Ran, "I get motion sickness, and I feel much more comfortable when I vomit." ”

The plastic bag in Ailus's hand was full of vomit, Li Gang took the bag, tied the mouth, threw it into the trash can next to the car door, and handed a new bag to Ailus.

Elous vomited again, and when the bus was about to reach Kenema, he finally stopped vomiting and fell back into his chair.

When they arrived at the Kenema bus station, Li Gang woke up Aelus, and the two got out of the car, Li Gang found a taxi, helped Aelos into the taxi, and the two quickly arrived at the Kenema Government Hospital.

In the emergency room, many patients are waiting in line, and the government hospital in Kenema is overcrowded every day, and in this place where medical resources are scarce, in addition to money, you have to wait in line for a long time.

Li Gang helped Elous to sit down on a bench in the corner, and sat down beside him, where there were already other patients waiting, and then two more people were crammed, and the bench suddenly became crowded.

Li Gang asked Irus again with concern, "What do you think?"

Elous didn't speak, just nodded.

After sitting for two minutes, Li Gang's mobile phone suddenly rang, and when he picked up the phone, it turned out that there was an urgent matter to deal with in the Nangu Timber Mill, and the rival Beiying Timber Mill sent someone to block the road for the Nangu Timber Mill to transport goods, and the workers on both sides also had a physical altercation, and some workers were injured.

This is an urgent matter, and Li Gang, as the person in charge of the timber mill, has to rush back immediately to deal with it.

Looking at Elous, who was sitting on a bench, Li Gang asked, "I have an urgent matter to go back to the lumber mill to deal with, can you be here alone?"

Elous still didn't speak, still just nodding blankly.

Although Li Gang was not worried about the Irus here, he was more worried about the lumber mill, so he called a taxi and rushed back to the lumber mill in Case Town.

Ellus waited alone in the emergency room, his body was on the verge of collapse, and finally all the organs of his body began to bleed, every hole in his body was bleeding outward, he began to go into shock, lost consciousness, and fell to the ground with a bang.

What happened next was what Dr. Mu and Dr. Merck of the emergency department saw, and Aurus was bleeding everywhere, his body was spasming, and he was unconscious.

Doctors suspected that Eros was infected with the Ebola virus and took him to a suburban infectious disease control center, where he eventually died.

All of the above are the messages summarized by Dr. Sky's on-site epidemiological investigation, and they were all sent to Nan Zhiqiao in the form of emails.

After taking a closer look, Nan no Qiao analyzed the places that might infect Aurus.

Forests, monkeys, timber mills, huts, monkey breeding farms?......

It's possible everywhere!

Now, in addition to the information obtained from the on-site epidemiological investigation, laboratory diagnosis is needed to confirm the pathogen of infection.

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While conducting on-site epidemiological investigations in Sierra Leone, Li Guoyi of the Guojing Medical Center in China is also nervously conducting experiments and reporting the results of the experiments to Nan Zhiqiao every day.

In the P4 biosafety laboratory, Li Guoyi first processed the samples that were airborne, some of which were tested with various kits, and some of which were used to isolate pathogens.

The existing nucleic acid detection kits for various virulent infectious disease pathogens have all tested negative.

This is most likely a pathogen that has not yet been discovered!

Considering that the pathogen may be any one of bacteria, viruses, mycoplasma, chlamydia, and spirochetes, Li Guoyi chose a variety of methods when isolating the pathogen.

Bacterial enrichment culture, microscopic observation, no bacterial growth was found, ruling out the possibility that the pathogen is bacteria.

Mycoplasma and chlamydia cultures are negative.

In the laboratory of Guojing Medical Center, various cells are preserved, and Li Guoyi has revived several eukaryotic cells for proliferation and isolation of pathogens.

Eukaryotic cells are excellent materials for isolating viruses.

A blood sample from Eros was added to a mature cell bottle, and after three days, the cells began to show lesions.

The diseased cells in the cell bottle were centrifuged, and then the treated diseased cells were placed under an electron microscope for observation after fixed sectioning.

In the field of view of an electron microscope, you can see the shape of tiny objects, even tiny organisms such as viruses, which are measured in nanometers.

When he saw the image under the electron microscope, Li Guoyi's heart trembled, and his vision was a mass of filamentous things, like many ropes tangled together.

Li Guoyi has seen similar electron microscope photos, only the virus in the Filoviridae family will look like this, and at present, in the Filoviridae, the only ones that are strongly contagious and pathogenic are Ebola virus and Marburg virus, and these two viruses have several subtypes.

From the perspective of virus morphology, the pathogen isolated from Ellus is a filavirus, but Marburg virus and Ebola virus have not been detected in Ellus's blood and various tissue cells, which indicates that the newly isolated pathogen is not these two viruses, is this a new filavirus?

Li Guoyi took an electronic photo of the cell lesions and the filaments found in the cells and sent them to Nan Zhiqiao.

Nan Zhiqiao looked at the photo, and his first reaction was that Elous was indeed infected by a filovirus.

Currently, there is only one genus in the Filoviridae family, the genus Filoviridae, while the genus Filoviridae contains only two viruses: Marburg virus and Ebola virus.

Much remains to be done to determine whether the newly isolated pathogen is a new filavirus.