Chapter 542: A New Influenza Virus
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"The Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued a flu prevention and control warning to the society: during the Spring Festival, people go out frequently, visit relatives and friends more, and it is easy for influenza viruses to spread, so it is a frequent period of influenza in previous years. Gu Qing, chief physician of the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that winter and spring are the seasons with high incidence of influenza, and the latest monitoring data show that there has been an outbreak of influenza in the city, and the incidence of influenza this winter is significantly higher than that of the previous two years, and there has been a significant surge in the past week compared with the beginning of the year. The percentage of influenza-like cases in outpatient cases in the city in the past week has increased several times compared with the same period last year. However, the public must be vigilant and pay attention to good hygiene and influenza prevention. The Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have issued important instructions on disease prevention work. The relevant departments are conducting intensive consultations to introduce effective control measures......"
After You Xiaojing, the host of the news broadcast of Shenhai TV, completed the live news program, she carefully sorted out her press release.
"Ahem!" You Xiaojing has had a small cough since yesterday, and she didn't take it to heart, so she bought some cold medicine and took it, but it didn't work.
"Xiaojing, you also have a cold? With the recent flu outbreak, you should be careful. According to internal sources, this time the influenza virus is a new mutant type and is very resistant to drugs. There are now hundreds of thousands of infected people across the deep sea. Hospitals are packed. Antiviral drugs in pharmacies are running out of stock. You Xiaojing's colleague Liu Chen asked with concern. I don't really care. Well, the flu virus seems to be normal.
It's just that what You Xiaojing and Liu Chen don't know is that this virus is far from being as simple as they imagined. The outbreak of the flu virus is not only in Shenhai City, from the south to the north, almost all large, medium and small cities have been swept by this new influenza virus.
The situation in Flower City is even worse than in Deep Sea City, with millions of people infected with the influenza virus. Many factories have already had to close due to the flu virus outbreak. And the migrant workers who felt that something was not quite right began to evacuate from Huacheng in panic. This rapid population movement has accelerated the rapid spread of this new influenza virus.
Since it was a flu virus, it didn't attract much attention at first. The CDC is only trying to ensure the supply of medicines. The focus is also on the research of specific drugs for this new virus, and I have no idea what kind of conspiracy this influenza virus contains.
Zhang Qi and fellow villager Zheng Jinfeng were carrying their bags and preparing to go home. Their factory was no longer open because a large number of workers had been hit by a cold. I couldn't find a new job all of a sudden. Zhang Qi discussed with his fellow villagers. Anyway, it's approaching the wax moon. Just go home early. Come back to the flower city next year. There are not many people like Zhang Qi and Zheng Jinfeng. Let the Spring Festival, which originally had nearly a month to come, come ahead of schedule.
The train station suddenly became crowded, and a large number of passengers from the north and south met here. It also happened to spread the new influenza virus rapidly to all parts of the country.
After more than ten days of treatment, hospitals in Shenhai and Huacheng discovered that this new influenza virus was unusual. Li Xiaosong, a respiratory doctor at Shenhai People's Hospital, found that the various antiviral drugs available were helpless against this new influenza virus. The previous treatments have also completely lost their effectiveness. Ribavirin is ineffective, oseltamivir is ineffective, and amantadine is ineffective...... Even some Chinese herbal remedies have lost their due effect in this treatment.
Li Xiaosong smelled a smell that was wrong. In his experience, influenza viruses over the years. No matter how mutated they are, there is always something that works for them. This is unprecedented. Unless the virus is not mutated under natural conditions. Rather, it is artificially made in a laboratory. If the latter, then the situation is even more complicated.
Li Xiaosong told Zhao Jiqian, director of the department, about the situation.
Zhao Jiqian disagreed: "Xiao Li, you think too much." Young people should not always hold conspiracy theories. This is a new type of influenza virus. Antibiotics are now being abused. As a result, the rate of mutation of influenza viruses is accelerating, and it is only natural that a new type of influenza virus will appear. Again. The CDC is concerned about this, and experts from various fields are also studying this new influenza virus. Can you see the problem, they won't be able to see it? ”
Li Xiaosong also wanted to defend a few words. was sent away by Zhao Jiqian's words: "Young people, don't think about becoming famous all day long." While you are young, you should do a good job in a down-to-earth manner. Instead of thinking about things that are unrealistic. ”
R&D Center of Han Ding Group, Tanshan City, Sanxiang Province.
Samples of the new influenza virus have been sent to the laboratory of the Han Academy R&D Center. Various studies on this new virus are already being carried out intensively.
"Everybody come and see. There is something abnormal in this strand of nucleic acids. We searched the nucleic acid strands of all previous influenza viruses and found no such sequences, and it was these strange sequences. This new virus has a very strong drug resistance. Immunization to almost all available anti-influenza virus drugs. This nucleic acid fragment is not formed by natural mutation, but synthesized artificially. It is a product of genetic engineering technology. I have more evidence for this. ”
Song Rui said this, stopped, and re-opened some new information.
"This is the nucleic acid sequence data of the virus sample that we obtained through a variety of ways, and from this we found some sequences that have homology with this new influenza virus. And these sequences, as evidenced by a large amount of data, are artificially synthesized sequences. This synthetic sequence has been cloned into the genome of this new virus. This makes this new virus extremely proliferating and highly resistant to antimicrobial drugs......"
Zhao Jianwei waited for Song Rui to finish his introduction, and then said: "In addition to what Dr. Song said, we have another amazing discovery. We found that this virus has an even more terrifying ability to recognize the people it infects. To be more specific, this virus only targets the Chinese. It is even able to accurately distinguish between Chinese, Wu and Xianbei. This is not a flu virus spread, but a man-made biochemical attack. ”
An exclamation erupted from the conference room of the R&D center of Han Group.
Zhao Jianwei waited for a moment in the conference room before he continued: "In our research, we found that this virus specifically recognizes some characteristic genes on the Chinese genome. As a result, only Chinese people can be infected with the virus. ”
"Damn!" Sun Chaokun couldn't help but scold.
In the conference room, the researchers in the R&D center were also very angry.
At this time, Qin Chuan slowly walked into the conference room.
All the researchers in the conference room immediately focused their attention on Qin Chuan, and stood up one by one to welcome Qin Chuan's arrival. (To be continued.) It's like a book, the house of books! Unique URL: