Chapter 710: The Unexpected
It is known that in 2002 Ekard? Wimur ordered a batch of DNA strands that can form poliovirus RNA through a commercial DNA combination technology company, and connected the ordered DNA strands in the order of polio RNA, and put them into the cell fluid after human cell lysis, and as a result, this group of artificially combined viral RNA began to activate, and like the poliovirus in nature, it constantly replicated itself and formed a protein shell, and its behavior was no different from that of the poliovirus that invaded human cells. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
His actions allowed scientists to break through the blockade of those who hindered scientific progress in the name of ethics, and after him, the biochemical science community began to enter the era of combined DNA and RNA.
In February 2009, after the last Ebola haemorrhagic fever infected people in Congo (Brazzaville) died last year, this batch of Ebola outbreaks was a full stop, in this outbreak, more than 1,800 people were infected and only more than 1,200 people died, relatively speaking, the proportion of infected deaths in this batch is much better than in the past.
After Phoebe used molecular biotechnology to create the original smallpox virus in the biological laboratory under the Yongsan base, she sent all the staff of the laboratory to the Gangguo River valley and set up two "aid" bases in order to master the Ebola virus - in fact, not only Titan is doing this, but many forces have established "treatment centers" in Africa for the purpose of research, not aid.
In fact, since the rise in oil prices in 2007, world food prices have begun to rise, after all, the major grain exporting countries are using mechanized equipment to produce food, coupled with the sudden bankruptcy of settlement banks, so that many small and medium-sized enterprises, including some transportation companies and grain companies, are also on the verge of bankruptcy, which has greatly hit the world food supply system, so that the African food supply system, which has been affected by a rare drought, has completely collapsed.
People who are afflicted by hunger can do a lot of things that they don't normally think of doing...... For example, there are more and more wild animals such as wild boars and monkeys in the primeval jungle than in previous years.
It can be said that since the food crisis in Africa, the World Health Organization has been worried about the resurgence of Ebola haemorrhagic fever outbreaks, but surprisingly, dengue fever and cholera were the first outbreaks.
In fact, the absence of a new outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever is entirely related to the fact that various "treatment centers" for research purposes snatched patients with early symptoms of Ebola, so that the outbreak was isolated at the beginning.
Titan was unlucky, only two suspected patients were rescued, one of whom was sent home after laboratory tests confirmed that it was dengue fever rather than Ebola. In other words, the two "treatment centers" of Titan only got one Ebola hemorrhagic fever patient, which made the people in the Titan treatment center very depressed.
As mentioned earlier, the staff of the Titan biological laboratory, which is somewhat different from other positions in Enceladus, is composed of people with personality dyspedia tendencies specially selected by Phoebe, and with the help of Asteria, Phoebe is able to control these people very well, and these people are obviously more fanatical about Phoebe than other Titan employees.
Well, if you explain it simply, Phoebe picked out people with antisocial personality disorder who knew how to pretend to be normal people, first formed a team to make the original smallpox virus, and then sent these people to Africa to "study" the Ebola virus, and these people were more loyal and fanatical to Phoebe than the other Titan employees, so they were not afraid of contracting the deadly virus themselves - In fact, under Phoebe's leadership, Titan's isolation technique is still quite good, so they have no chance of being infected.
As for how Phoebe could possibly get together so much anti-social ...... Well, isn't it common sense that neo-Nazi organizations have a higher percentage of people with antisocial tendencies?
And the reason why Phoebe researched the virus is because Phoebe understands that the real ruler of the entire earth is actually the virus.
They are everywhere, in the air, oceans, mountains, rivers, pure water, the surface of utensils, on people's faces, on the surface of bacteria and in the body, there are traces of viruses, so it is quite necessary for Titan, a group that needs to have a higher voice, to master the virus.
And don't forget, viruses can still survive in a vacuum and a few hundred degrees of heat, that is to say, Titan's orbital recovery program also has to deal with the earth virus and space virus that absorb cosmic rays in space, if you can't conquer the virus on Earth, then how can you talk about resisting the virus in space?
As for why we should find people with antisocial tendencies to form an experimental team, the reason is simpler, because even those who can calmly accept orders will be troubled by human feelings and morals when they actually study the virus. Therefore, Phoebe naturally seeks to find people with antisocial personalities as researchers, because they will not be bothered by irrational thoughts and can perfectly execute Phoebe's ideas.
Yes, once again, Phoebe is looking for neo-Nazi members to be her employees because of the high percentage of people in this organization who have antisocial tendencies.
Although Titan's artificial intelligence technology is higher than that of the outside world, for example, it is necessary to go to Africa to collect experimental data, and Phoebe knows that it cannot be done without artificial intelligence, but still needs people to do it, so as not to be regarded as an outlier by other organizations.
Why does Phoebe think that viruses are the masters of the earth, because Phoebe's body is very special, she can control all her cells, so she knows that in addition to sunlight, oxygen, fungi, bacteria, microparasites, etc., the most attacking thing is viruses.
Phoebe doesn't know what will happen if she loses too many cells, so Phoebe is like a neurotic, fighting to the death with all kinds of "enemies" every minute, fortunately, Phoebe has already eliminated the bacteria, microorganisms and viruses in her body, but there is nothing she can do about the outside.
Therefore, Phoebe has a very strong motivation to push Titan to study the virus, and it is not just for the sake of Titan to have more say.
But at the same time, through reading the literature and scientific research materials, Phoebe also understood that viruses are one of the foundations for the evolution of life on earth, and if there were no viruses, then the evolution of organisms from single cells to later complex organisms is simply nonsense.
Therefore, for this reason, Phoebe still has to master virus control technology, so the real core of Titan, in addition to artificial intelligence such as Asteria, is the virus research project that Phoebe believes is related to her life and death.
However, Phoebe concealed it very well, completely opening the structure of the virus research project to all forces, but hiding other scientific and technological secrets, so that outsiders would not notice that she attached great importance to virus research.
Just like the perfusion breathing fluid that Titan took out when the Atlantic Floaters were built, Phoebe's real intention in making this kind of thing was actually to protect the lungs from direct contact with the outside environment under certain circumstances, so that the lungs would not be attacked by certain viruses that could not deal with the skin.
Some people may think that Phoebe is too nervous about the virus, but for Phoebe, this nervousness is still very necessary.
To give a simple example, the reason why the world-famous HIV virus cannot be eradicated is that in addition to the fact that they specifically attack the body's immune cells, their non-precise replication multiplication, that is, the extremely rapid mutation of HIV, makes the development of a vaccine a fantasy.
Therefore, Phoebe is extremely sensitive to viruses because she knows that viruses are too easy to mutate, just like the original smallpox virus mutated to the later smallpox virus, and it only took 70 years.
This 70-year statement seems to be very easy, but in fact it means that after the primitive smallpox virus was raging for many years, and after mankind finally had some experience in keeping the patients alive, the smallpox virus came back after 70 years of dormancy, and mutated into a modern smallpox virus that could not reduce the mortality rate according to previous experience - in fact, the original smallpox virus was the kind of smallpox that caused a large decline in Native Americans, and in fact, its infection mortality rate was much higher than that of the modern smallpox virus.
Interestingly, when the World Health Organization announced in 1980 that it had confirmed the elimination of the smallpox virus that had ravaged humans, many ordinary people did not know that smallpox, which was originally transmitted from cattle to humans, could also be transmitted to other mammals, such as monkeys......
After the people of Titan reconstituted the original smallpox virus according to the DNA sequence, they jointly organized an operation with Langley and the Pentagon to secretly enter the mountains and forests of South Korea's northern neighbors, and used Titan's underground excavation equipment to create a fake simple tomb of the Yuan Dynasty, and placed a large number of artifacts contaminated with high concentrations of the original smallpox virus unearthed in South Korea.
According to Langley's intelligence analysis, after the national defense project of South Korea's northern neighbor is launched, the location of the fake tomb will soon be excavated, and the engineers of the northern country responsible for the construction will naturally not think of any problems with the funeral goods, and the original smallpox virus is infected through contact, this time so that international organizations have more excuses to blockade and enter the northern neighbor, and the northern neighbor will inevitably need external support at that time, when the time comes, how will the Chinese behave?
It can be said that this plan is even very helpful to the domestic rescue plan of the United States, after all, now the United States needs China's help, and China will obviously use this opportunity to get more benefits, although the United States knows that the Chinese will do this, but also has to admit it, and once the original smallpox virus breaks out in Asia, it will obviously allow the United States and China to gain more initiative in negotiations.
As for whether there will be people who suspect poisoning in the United States at that time, just kidding, the burial goods in the clothed graves dug up by the northern neighbors themselves, people with archaeological experience will definitely think about why this is a clothed grave, archaeology is science, not humanities...... Langley and the Pentagon, as well as a handful of diplomats involved in North Asia, such as Phoebe's adoptive father, understood that the United States could never be involved in this matter, and that Titan's plan was perfect.
Some people say that there can be no perfect plan in the world, and it seems to make sense. However, only imperfect plans will be exposed, and perfect plans will not be known to the public.
As the weather warmed up, they began to pay close attention to the news of the start of the national defense project in the northern neighboring country, and those in the know were still worried that the northern neighbor would not deliberately spread the original smallpox to the south, so with the success of the operation to deploy the false clothes and mounds, the southward movement of the US military stationed in South Korea suddenly accelerated, and on the surface, the South Koreans thought that they had achieved a phased victory in opposing the foreign garrison, but in fact, the top brass of the US military stationed in South Korea was afraid that they would accidentally see through the epidemic that they had long known that it was the original smallpox, so there was a phenomenon of the US military accelerating its southward movement。
A little fame is nothing, the key is actual interests, and many people in the know have additional expectations in their hearts: I wonder if the South Koreans will think of the arrival of the US troops in South Korea because of the epidemic in the north? In any case, let's get ready for champagne......
The outside world believes that Titan wants to tell the outside world that Titan has the means and determination to protect itself, but Barbara knows that the reason why Phoebe wants to implement this plan is to make Titan's biological research project generally accepted by the high-level, just like this fake Clothes Crown Tomb project, Enceladus's biological research project is beneficial to everyone at a critical moment.
Barbara, like many people, is also staring at the news from the north, in fact, after entering late March, she has begun to carry respiratory fluid and large molecule dry hand paste produced by Titan, Phoebe also let her not worry, because the location of the fake clothes mound is quite far away from the 38th parallel, even if the people in the north want to spread south, in this area where there are satellites passing through the sky 24 hours a day, it is still difficult to hide, they have enough warning time.
But what caught Barbara and Phoebe off guard was that on March 25, a new type of swine flu virus began to appear in Mexico, which is a new type of influenza virus that is synthesized by a variety of influenza viruses through the respiratory cells of pigs.
To be honest, Phoebe was really depressed about the emergence of H1N1, although she planned to wait for the swimming pools that were idle in the southwestern states of the United States due to the wave of property redemptions to become breeding pools for a large number of mosquitoes, and took this news as a public safety information to warn the CDC first, but unexpectedly, H1N1 appeared, which means that the epidemic prevention system in the United States will be fully operational for at least three years, and her plan to notify public safety information in advance can only end in nothing, because when the epidemic prevention system is working at full strength, mosquito-borne diseases will be detected at the first time, so the value of this warning has shrunk geometrically。
"Alas...... It's a shame......" Phoebe commented rarely.
"What's the pity?" Barbara was stunned, playing with a jar of breath fluid in her hand.
"The swine flu outbreak is too inopportune, if only it were two years late. Phoebe said.
Barbara rolled her eyes and said, "That's what the Mexicans say, too." ”
Phoebe glanced at Barbara, and suddenly said: "By the way, notify me that in the next year, except for work needs, it is forbidden to show the breath liquid to outsiders, including the people of Onclaude." ”
"Huh?" Barbara was stunned for a moment, and then understood, swine flu, isn't it infected through respiratory droplets, respiratory fluid, it is indeed more convenient than many professional respiratory protection equipment, and then said: "The Navy and the Air Force have seen this thing, even if you ban it, it's useless." ”
Phoebe shook her head and said, "How many people do you think can use its breath solution? I can't sell this thing cheaply, on the one hand, the purpose is to isolate low-end users through high prices, that is, not to have contact with more ordinary consumers, including medical use." On the other hand, my consideration is that if there are too few infected people and the status of the infected people is not high enough, there will not be many resources for treatment and epidemic prevention research, and the ravages of this new type of influenza will inevitably be prolonged, which will be detrimental to the world economy that needs to be rebuilt. ”
Barbara was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a smile and said, "Well, I know, I'll convey it as soon as possible, and in addition, I'll tell those who should be told." ”
Hearing this, Phoebe smiled, and nodded......