When the international community just turned its attention to the epidemic in Africa, Chen Chen's side had already launched an experiment.

At this point, hundreds of patients infected with BE-006 had been admitted to the closed isolation cell.

These patients are volunteers selected by the company from the vicinity, and they have signed a personal agreement, and even if they die in the end, Blacklight will not be held responsible.

The professors in charge of the virus research in Bernhard stood in front of the isolation window, looking at the rows of beds in the window, while checking the flow of each treatment.

At this moment, the door of the observation room quickly opened, and Chen Chen appeared directly behind the door.

"Boss, why are you here?"

Everyone turned their heads and greeted each other.

"Of course, I can't stay out of the event."

Chen Chen waved his hand and said to Professor Bernhard, who was the leader, "Have the symptoms of the virus been counted?" ”

"Through the dissection of thirty corpses in the past few days, as well as the study of hundreds of patients, we have a certain understanding of the symptoms of BE-006."

Bernhard confidently took out a file and handed it to Chen Chen, "The situation is basically recorded." ”

Chen Chen took the album and looked at it slightly.

The first picture of the album is a pattern taken by an electron microscope with several ribbon-like filaments coiled like worms.

Underneath the pattern, the words Blackwatch Ebola are marked.

Bernhard explained, "It looks beautiful, it bears some resemblance to its relatives, but it's actually a true killer." ”

"Who's to say it isn't."

Chen Chen shrugged his shoulders and turned the second page, on which was a photo of a black man.

It's just that this black man is bleeding from seven holes, and even his skin is oozing blood, and the whole person looks extremely dull.

"That's the standard symptom of hemorrhagic fever."

Bernhard explains, "The BE virus works almost exactly the same way as its relative, the Reston virus, which enters the air through droplets produced when the host speaks, and then enters the infected person's body through the eyes, nose, mouth, or wounds of the infected person. ”

"And the phenomenon that happens after entering the human body, I divide it into three steps."

Bernhard held out a finger.

"The first step, which is the initial stage of infection, is to attack the human white blood cells, destroy the white blood cells' ability to perceive, and make the infected person's body lose the protection of white blood cells, and then the infected person's blood will change and become more and more viscous."

"Moreover, the virus also likes to attack connective tissue, which is mainly collagen, where they multiply in large quantities, and then the skin of the infected person liquefies and dies from the bottom, blisters break at touch, and bleeding appears......"

When Chen Chen heard this, he turned the third page, but saw that a black patient's face was densely covered with hundreds of blood blisters, and he could barely see his face clearly.

"Next is the second step."

Bernhard continued, "Patients will bleed incessantly, in the mouth, gums, breasts, eyes...... No matter how small the pores are, they will start to bleed, because after the white blood cells, the blood cells will also be killed, the cells will be lysed by the virus, and the organelles will be scattered everywhere, until the blood is full of viruses that have lysed the cells......"

"This rate can happen quickly in a matter of days, because that's the power of a virulent virus."

Bernhard said, spreading his hands, "And then there's the third step, and the last step in the life of the intested." ”

"At this time, the mouth of the infected person begins to decay, the tongue and necrotic organs are coughed out when coughing, and his liver will turn into a paste, and his intestines will be filled with blood, as if the whole person has begun to melt from the inside out......"

"Moreover, their nerves also begin to die, and they appear sluggish, and the patient will gradually die until then."

Chen Chen flipped to the back, and all of them were anatomical drawings of corpses.

"Sure enough, it's an accurate Ebola death."

Chen Chen simply closed the report, "Publish this on the homepage of our company's website, and publicize it to the world, now let's talk about something intuitive, now the incubation time of the virus, and the treatment has been found?" ”

Bernhard shook his head when he heard this, and said regretfully, "According to our investigation, the current incubation period has risen to 7 days, and we suspect that the incubation period of BE-006 is similar to that of other Ebola viruses, and can reach a maximum of 20 days." ”

"That's really bad news."

Chen Chen's expression became more and more solemn, the longer the incubation period, the farther the virus can spread, and the greater the threat to human civilization.

"As for the treatment, we have only tried two therapies for the time being, which are NPC1 blocker therapy and conventional symptomatic treatment."

Another professor explained, "The Ebola virus needs to enter the nucleus through NPC1 for self-replication, and once the NPC1 protein blocks the transport of cholesterol, the disease will be significantly suppressed, and the first group of patients was temporarily suppressed after being injected with NPC1 blockers." ”

"However, traditional symptomatic treatments, which include electrolyte fluids, oral rehydration and intravenous fluids, repair of lost platelets to prevent bleeding, and maintaining oxygen levels in the blood, are much less effective."

"Today, the traditional symptomatic treatment has a mortality rate of about 35 percent."

Chen Chen didn't speak, because he understood that the reason why the mortality rate of traditional therapy was not high was only because it had not yet reached the later stage of the disease.

The longer it drags on, the higher the mortality rate.

"NPC1 blocker therapy is now considered the most effective treatment for the Ebola virus."

Evans added, "The only downside is that NPC1 blocker therapy can cause patients to get Niemann-Pick disease, which is too costly." ”

"There's no way around it."

Chen Chen said solemnly, "By the way, when can our company start researching vaccines?" ”

"In about half a month to a month, when we fully understand the nature of the virus."

Evans thought for a moment and estimated, "In half a month, the mortality rate of this plague can probably be estimated, and some international aid will also arrive, and that is the time to really fight back." ”

"And at that time, there will also be a part of patients who produce antibodies and recover themselves, and then they can take their serum to treat the virus, that is, what we have to do now is how to stop the spread of the epidemic as much as possible within a month."

"Good."

Chen Chen nodded, "You can rest assured, although I don't dare to guarantee that the virus will not spread into the Life Science City, I can at least guarantee that once any epidemic is discovered, it can be immediately suppressed, and it will definitely give you a stable research environment." ”

After encouraging everyone again, Chen Chen took a live strain of BE-006 and left the research center.

This live strain, Chen Chen will carry out another research in the Spire Laboratory, after all, the equipment of the Spire Laboratory is more advanced than the fourth-level biosafety laboratory of the research center.

Moreover, there are also top genius scientists such as Hannibal and Li Lei in the Spire Laboratory, in addition, Chen Chen will also let Xiao X join this research.

Although he is not creative, with his computing power and micromanipulation ability, he can easily analyze the genetic map of the virus and use complex gene editing techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9.