Passing through the mountains, there is a historic Miao Township Ancient Town, which is surrounded by mountains, and the water of the Wuyang River passes through the city with a winding "S", divided into north and south banks, and looks like a Tai Chi Bagua map from a distance.

It was evening, and the sun was shining.

Army-green trucks slowly drove into this picturesque town.

The ground here is all bluestone as the road, undulating with the terrain, different heights, and scattered.

Most of the houses are also wooden structures, with green tiles on the roof, and the back mountain surface is mostly two-storey, the ground floor is deeper, the house is moist, the attic is built on the top, and the skylight is opened.

Most of the stilted buildings built near the river, some stand directly on the stones, and some directly take the feet of wooden pillars, and the river water flows under the stilted buildings, which makes people unforgettable.

Wang Nan found a fellow villager and asked for directions, and drove the car directly to the gate of the hospital on the north bank, Xu Weiguo called a soldier and asked him to carry Chu Xiao into the hospital, Zheng Yan trotted all the way in front, and after explaining the situation to the doctor, he hurriedly hung up the drip to Chu Xiao.

It was getting dark, and this night, they rested in the town.

Chu Xiao didn't have a fever until the morning, Zheng Yan and the doctor in the local hospital were a little helpless, and the doctor told Xu Weiguo that the qualifications of the equipment in the Guzhen Hospital were limited, and the patient's condition was very serious, and he had to be sent to the big hospital in Licheng.

Chu Xiao was carried into a car, and walked to Licheng with the army green truck in front of him.

Bronze Town is more than 300 kilometers away from Licheng, and when the group arrived in Licheng, not long after settling down Chu Xiao, Zheng Qiuhua also suddenly had a fever, Zheng Qiuhua also suddenly had a fever, and the symptoms were exactly the same as Chu Xiao.

It burned to more than 39 degrees, and then slowly climbed to 40 degrees.

Zheng Qiuhua and Chu Xiao were sitting back to back before, very close to each other.

Can a high fever be contagious?

After an old doctor in Licheng Hospital knew about this, he found Xu Weiguo with a solemn face.

The old doctor's surname is Qin, because of his medical skills, although he has long passed the retirement age, he still comes to the hospital from time to time to help, bring young doctors, and teach everyone some experience.

When Dr. Qin arrived, he brought with him a pile of tattered paper, and there was a dense text on the paper.

Doctor Qin's face was not very good, "Camp Chief Xu, maybe it's not a high fever infection, but something that causes a high fever is contagious." I hope it's not as serious as I thought it was, but to be on the safe side, let's all get a check-up. ”

Xu Weiguo was stunned for a moment, everyone did a check?

"Is this necessary?"

Doctor Qin nodded very seriously, "Everything, wait until the results of the examination come out." ”

Licheng Hospital is the largest hospital in your province, Xu Weiguo let everyone get out of the car, Dr. Qin personally supervised, and asked everyone to take a blood sample for examination, Xu Weiguo looked at his face solemnly, and his heart sank.

The pile of paper that Dr. Qin had been carrying with him, when he was flipping through it, Xu Weiguo saw a table, and when he saw this table, Xu Weiguo's whole body tensed.

If Dr. Qin's suspicions become a reality, then the matter is serious. Because what is recorded on the pile of paper is the epidemic situation in the past 100 years, as well as the number of cases and deaths.

After the results of the examination came out, Dr. Qin breathed a sigh of relief.

None of the virus species on the epidemic table correspond.

As long as it is not a disease that is highly contagious, will have a large planned outbreak, and cannot control the number of deaths, and will cause huge losses every time.

However, before Dr. Qin's heart was let go for long, a little nurse came to tell him that several more urgent patient numbers had been sent from Bronze Town, and the symptoms were all without exception, all of them were sudden fevers, one fever was above 39 degrees, and the serious fever had reached 41 degrees.

As soon as Xu Weiguo fell asleep, he was called up by Dr. Qin and followed Dr. Qin to recognize people.

"The patient numbers who had just been sent said that they had been in the same car as a group of soldiers, and that there was a very beautiful person in the car who had a fever at that time. ”

Yes, I know, the new sick numbers are a few little thieves holding sheep to block their way. After confirming this, Dr. Qin's face became as ugly as he looked.

Things turned out to be even worse than he had predicted, probably a rare virus, a new and highly contagious virus.

"Fever is a change in the temperature of the body due to the existence of a clear infection foci in a certain part of the body, if the infection site is in the respiratory tract or digestive tract, it is very likely to be transmitted to the surrounding people, especially respiratory diseases are mostly transmitted through air droplets, which are easy to infect others, and people who live together are also easy to transmit some infectious diseases through the digestive tract.

Anyone who has been in contact with the source of infection can be infected, and by the time the symptoms of fever appear, it is not the early stage.

Everyone has to be quarantined for a while, and I'll give everyone an antiviral shot to see if it works.

There are many kinds of viruses, and infectious viruses are also prone to mutations, so you may not be able to walk in a short period of time.

Because, according to your description, the virus is very contagious, most likely through airborne droplets, and all of you were in the same semi-enclosed space as the carrier, and it is very likely that all of you were infected with the virus.

If you are allowed to continue walking, this virus is very likely to spread out in the area, infect more people, if you cross-infect each other, it may form a large-scale infectious disease, if you do not find a symptomatic solution in time, you cannot control the speed of infection, it may evolve into a plague!

Aside from knowing that it is extremely contagious, we know almost nothing about this virus, how destructive it will be, how to restrain it, and how to develop antibodies. ”

What?

Is the situation so serious?

Xu Weiguo was also a little surprised.

Dr. Qin is over half a hundred years old, and when he mentions this infectious virus, there are a few more folds on his face.

"Have you seen the Romance of the Three Kingdoms? There is a passage in it that floats the corpse of a sick and dead patient from the river to the enemy, and then makes the enemy contract the same disease, so as to achieve the goal of defeating the other party.

Throughout the ages, plague has been a terrible term.

And I have experienced it myself, and in that war the number of deaths from disease was far greater than the number of deaths caused by the war, which was 455,199. At that time, I was still a small hygienist, unknown to each other, one by one sick comrades-in-arms, everyone looked at me with expectant eyes, but I knew that once I contracted this epidemic, I would definitely die.

I am a doctor who saves lives, but I can't save anyone, and the taste of pain is deeply rooted in my heart.

Decades have passed since this incident, but I still dream of the faces of those comrades-in-arms from time to time, the eyes of them looking forward to survival, and the stiffening bodies of their bodies as the vitality disappears little by little on them.

I've seen so much death, and I hate my own powerlessness.

So I've been working on epidemics.

But I hope that our country, our people, will never experience this kind of suffering again.

I also hope that the person who has a fever this time is just a simple fever......"