Chapter 453: Strange Disease

"Doctor Jiang, as a medical worker, isn't it a little irresponsible for you to speak like this?" Uncle Lu said.

"Alas, I can't help it, if you know how distressed we doctors are, you know how strange this disease is, now the province, the city, all are very concerned about this matter, it may be that even the central government is alarmed, but now a week has passed, we haven't even found out the cause, let alone any treatment plan, in this way, our good days are over." Dr. Jiang said.

"How can this disease be so bad?" Min Lan said with emotion.

"It's not just amazing, look at this patient, on the surface, he is almost forty years old, such a person walking on the street, you must think that he is a forty-year-old stunted dwarf, but if I tell you that this is a five-year-old child, what will you think?" Dr. Jiang said.

"What do you say? Is this really a child? Only five years old? Uncle Lu looked at the little man in his hand, but just looking at his limbs and facial features, he was clearly a normal forty-year-old person, the only problem was that his stature was too short, really like a five or six-year-old child, and then thinking of the inexplicable crying of this person just now, we were even more confirmed, it was something that only a five-year-old child could do.

"Patients are all like this, height, IQ, there will be no change, the only thing that has changed is their appearance, their various organs, this child is just so young. The days that followed were still long, but now his body was no different from that of a forty-year-old man. Even if his illness is cured now, it is impossible for the aging organs to recover, and his life span has been cut in half. Dr. Jiang said.

We've arrived at the county central hospital, don't you say, although it's full of mountains, it doesn't look like a developed area, but this hospital still looks quite large.

"The hardware facilities of your hospital are good." Min Lan said.

"It's over, it's over, it's not good. But because the tourism industry is doing well. After many renovations in the county hospital, the current treatment facilities are also very advanced, so the province is relieved to keep some patients here for treatment. Originally, there was no fence around this area, in order to make the hospital safer. Railings were installed not long ago. But the gap is still a little bigger. Just now, this kid slipped out while the nurse and I weren't looking, and he was drilling through the fence. Therefore, the gate guard did not notice it, and the monitoring room was the first to find it. Dr. Jiang said.

"This kid is five years old, why can't he speak, so quiet all the way." Yun Xian said that at this moment, the child was led by Uncle Lu, and quietly followed the team forward, without saying a word along the way.

"There is also a strange thing about this disease, that is, it seems to make people lose the ability to speak, many patients, have language barriers, they are not unable to make sounds, but they can't say a complete sentence, like a big tongue, this disease also has in daily life, called language disorder syndrome, that is, only make a sound, but can not speak a disease, most of them belong to the neurological field, so now it is not ruled out that this disease of Progeria may harm the nervous system." Dr. Jiang said.

"Isn't there a case of Progeria in the world, which is said to be a terminal disease, and there is no cure for it." Sister Wang Na said.

"Yes, there is a disease called Progeria, but it is not the same as our case. Progeria has been identified as the result of a genetic mutation that appears in children, Progeria patients, with distinct characteristics and a large skull, which is clearly pathological. But this case we met, because it is normal aging, you can't tell that this is a patient even if you walk down the street, and if it weren't for the fact that the person you met was a five-year-old child, you wouldn't have known that he was a patient. Their eating, moving, are not affected, before the complete failure of their organs, they are the same as normal old people, except that every day passes, for them it is like several years, the speed of aging, visible to the naked eye. Dr. Jiang explained.

"So according to you, these people don't actually behave like a patient in the hospital at all, just like normal people?" Dazhe asked. At this time, we had already walked into the hospital, and Dr. Jiang led us directly to the fifth floor.

"You're right, they're just like normal people, but they're in a bad mental state, because they all know they don't have a long life. The fifth and sixth floors are the inpatient departments, and such patients live on the fifth floor. "Saying this, we have gone up to the fifth floor, and as soon as we walked out of the elevator, we saw several nurses pushing a person towards the elevator, the person on the bed was covered with a white cloth, obviously deceased, the nurse saw Dr. Jiang and stopped to say hello.

"Doctor Jiang, are you back, the child has been found?" The nurse asked.

"yes, little naughty, got it back, what, another one?" Dr. Jiang asked.

"yes, it's already the thirty-sixth." The nurse said as she stepped into the elevator, waved her hand, and closed the elevator door.

"I didn't expect it to be so serious." Yuan Ru said with emotion.

We walked around the fifth floor, and there were at least two people living in each room, all of them were elderly, and some of them looked like they were forty or fifty years old, but I don't know if my eyes had the illusion that their faces were changing, and they were slowly getting older, at a speed that the human eye could capture.

"That's the way it is, I wonder if the experts have any opinions?" Dr. Jiang asked anxiously.

"As we said before, we are not doctors, we are scientific researchers, but we can assist you in our field and see if we can find any breakthroughs." Yuan Ru said.

"It seems that it is useless for us to stay here, I should still go to the village and have a look, maybe I can find something." Uncle Lu said.

"What this comrade said makes sense, then I won't delay you, now the dean is still having a video conference, I have to go over, all of you, just take care of yourself." Dr. Jiang said.

"You get busy first, we can take care of ourselves." Yuan Ru said politely.

After seeing Dr. Jiang away, we walked around the hospital again, asked a few nurses, and what they said was similar to what Dr. Jiang said. We felt that there were really no clues, so many people crowded in the hospital really did not look good, so we simply decided to go back to the hotel first, and go straight to Bayun Village tomorrow to see clearly.

The hotel and the hospital are not far away, although the appearance is antique, very ethnic minority style, but the facilities inside are indeed very perfect, not lost to any five-star hotel. It seems that this county has also made a lot of efforts in order to do a good job in tourism. In the evening, the county leaders finally appeared, and invited us to have a meal of wine, but the most talked about during the banquet was the strange disease of Bayun Village, and the county leaders were also very headaches, we said that we would go to Bayun Village the next day to see, and said that we did not want to have leaders follow too pomp and circumstance, just go over and see it yourself. The county leaders expressed their understanding and met our requirements one by one.

When I returned to the hotel, I took a hot shower, and then lay on the bed.

"I remember someone who said they wanted to help me translate ancient books in the old mansion, why did they come here with interest?" I asked.

"I just found something interesting, and I'll show you it, maybe you'll be interested." Ji Ziyang said and handed me an ancient book, this is an ancient book that has been translated into vernacular, it seems that it is the masterpiece of Jiang Yuqin's predecessors, I can probably still understand the vernacular, it is classical Chinese, there is no difficulty in reading.

An ancient book is an excerpt from an article, which probably means that there was once a race that was originally very long-lived, but suddenly all the people of the tribe died overnight, and all of them were white-headed overnight before they died. Because this race was extinct at that time, the people after him didn't even know what this race was called.

"It's a story that looks like a strange story." I say.

"Didn't you find anything?" Ji Ziyang asked.

"Overnight, what are you talking about this strange disease we encountered this time, which means that this disease has also appeared before?" I asked.

"A race, this is also the key, people of a race, their blood will be similar, this village where the accident occurred, have you observed in advance what nationality?" Ji Ziyang asked. "Sister Wang Na has already checked before coming, this Baxia County is a county and town where many ethnic groups gather, and the people in the county are from various ethnic groups, mainly Han, Zhuang, Yao, among which the Yao people have the largest number, and now this Bayun Village, where the accident is happening, is all gathered by Yao people, and all of them are blue indigo Yao, which is a branch of the Yao people, because the clothing in the clan is dyed with blue indigo color, hence the name. And this strange disease has affected the entire Bayun Village, and very few people have been spared, are you saying that this is a large-scale outbreak of genetic diseases in the family, targeting the Yao people who are all blue indigo? "I asked." You'll have to check tomorrow to find out, and that's just a clue. Ji Ziyang said.

"So since you're here, don't you plan to go back?" I asked.

"If I hadn't planned to come in the first place, I wouldn't be here now." Ji Ziyang said indifferently, "Okay, it's not early, you should go to bed early, I will follow you when you go tomorrow, I am also very curious, where did this strange disease come from." (To be continued.) )