Chapter 30: Isolation
I'm afraid that the condition is getting worse.
I'm afraid it won't be long before ...... Ling Xiao's eyes didn't fluctuate.
Knowing that it was the virus, she began to quickly search for her memories.
I heard that the autopsy of some patients after death will reveal that some organs have died long ago.
Nowadays, many cells in the patient's body are only afraid of being attacked by the virus, and they have already been transformed into viruses.
His eyes sometimes showed emotion, but more often than not.
I'm afraid that this patient will soon go into the vomiting stage of vomiting blood.
Then there is the bleeding of the seven orifices, and life passes little by little.
Ling Xiao asked Dr. Meng Bei to fetch the hanging bottle.
As a doctor, you can't give up lightly at this time.
Even if the patient is seriously ill, he may be dying.
But for the sake of a glimmer of life, we must also work hard to save it.
The bottle is to replenish the patient's water first, and then supplement a certain amount of electrolytes.
Meng Bei and Mi Lu didn't say anything, and helped Ling Xiao start the rescue together.
It is their responsibility to save patients, even if they are at risk of being infected.
After drawing enough blood, Ling Xiao took the container and sent it to the door of the emergency room.
The people in the hospital were ready, both men were fully armed and wearing isolation gowns with eleven pieces of protective equipment.
One person takes the container and raises it, and the other person disinfects the outer wall of the container.
High concentrations of chemicals are used to ensure that the outer walls of the container are free of viruses.
Once the container filled with blood has been sterilized, it is placed in a biosafety box.
During the placement process, the container must not touch the outer edge of the box.
After the container is placed, several ice boxes are placed.
This is to maintain a certain constant low temperature.
The temperature of the safety box should be kept between 4° and 8°.
The virus will remain infectious for 5 weeks at around 4°C.
If you want to store the virus for a longer period of time, the temperature should reach -70°C to keep the virus active for a long time.
The so-called so-called this is because the Ebola virus is also composed of proteins, if it is -70°, the virus is directly blocked, and if it is heated, then the protein will start to mutate after 60°, and it will gradually lose its activity.
It can be said that to some extent, the virus is more afraid of rising temperatures than cold, or even cooler, which keeps the Ebola virus contagious for more time.
The reason why the hospital places the ice boxes is because the researchers need to keep the virus infectious.
After the box is sealed, the entire perimeter of the box will be carefully disinfected.
After the sterilization is completed, it will be placed in a third, larger box.
After sealing, the outermost box should also be disinfected.
It will be sent to DSD by hand.
Identification of species by specialized researchers.
This is a complete process of transporting the virus.
After the delivery of the safety box, the quarantine area was also prepared.
The hospital evacuated the staff, and Meng Bei helped the patient to a special ward.
After they left the emergency room lobby, heavily armed personnel entered to detoxify.
In order to prevent the possibility of infecting other people who come to the hospital, if you don't, it won't be a hospital.
It is a point of infection of the virus, and in order to prevent it, not only chemical agents, but also ultraviolet lamps are used to ensure the safety of other people to the greatest extent.
There were also quite a few patients watching from afar throughout the process, and others took over as the patients entered and walked halfway through.
Ling Xiao, Meng Bei, Mi Lu, and the patient's family entered the isolation stage.
In order to ensure each other's safety, the four of them had a room for each person.
It's a single confinement room, and there are basically no outsiders.
Ling Xiao can see it, and he has been busy since he passed through.
I've been busy studying, interning, and working.
Since it is quarantined, it should be a holiday.
I'm afraid that the people in the hospital are busy.
As expected, the hospital entered a state of emergency.
Naturally, the hospital knew that the patient could not be removed, so it had to be rescheduled.
Ordinary patients should not be admitted to this place because of the possibility of infection.
At this moment, an employee of the hospital said that she was going to get married and would not come to work, and she was suspected of running away.
The hospital doesn't care about this kind of behavior, and it can't force others to come to work.
In addition to this patient, there is also a steady stream of suspected patients.
The village was blocked by a group of armed men.
At first, the villagers thought it was an illegal armed force.
It almost blew up, but I found out later what it was all about.
People in the village who went out to treat the sick were found to have Ebola in the hospital.
Some people suddenly realized, and then remembered that all the extermination had happened.
In fact, many people in the village fell ill, and those who could still be rescued were taken away.
For those who have died, the buried bodies are also exhumed for further processing to ensure that there is no source of infection.
After all, in addition to humans and primates, the host of the Ebola virus has also been detected in other animals.
Who knows if any scavengers have eaten the deceased's body in the process of being buried in the ground and decomposed, and whether it will infect other animals after eating.
Until now, the natural reservoir of the Ebola virus has not been fully determined, and it is possible to directly cut off the root causes.
At the beginning of the operation, the people of the village were reluctant to exhume the bodies of the deceased in accordance with the above regulations.
Because it has been a habit in the village for many years that the dead should return to nature and be buried in the ground.
But the corpses that have been buried now have to be forcibly exhumed and disposed of.
This situation made the villagers a little unacceptable.
I wanted to resist, but the other party was carrying a gun.
In fact, the people of the village also knew that the situation was not so good.
They have to accept the reality that a bad one can be violent.
Even if the villagers are in good physical condition, cold weapons and hot weapons are simply unable to compete.
They eventually chose to back down, let the bodies of the deceased be taken away, and watched as those who were fully equipped began carpet sanitization.
And those who were sent to the lockdown were all very nervous, after all, Ebola was too strong, and they were afraid that they might be infected.
A special security line was drawn, and the people in the village could only move within that range, and if they exceeded that range, they could get a fatal attack.
After Ling Xiao in quarantine learned the news, he sighed a little, sometimes the so-called customs and habits make more people sick, this is the case with the Ebola virus, and the same is true with the Ruan virus.
Now she is more idle as a quarantined person, and her mobile phone is handed over, because she can't contact the outside world, but fortunately, she has more free time, and naturally she has some time to start watching more things.
Ling Xiao saw the discovery process of the soft virus in the books sent for entertainment, and was very interested, because the Ruan virus has a higher lethality rate than the Ebola virus, and the infection is 100% fatal.
And this highly lethal virus was also discovered in the last world, and the so-called determination is thanks to a scientist named Gaydusek.
In the twentieth fifties, he learned that the Frey tribe in Papua New Guinea in Oceania had a high incidence of hereditary diseases.
As a scientist with no small curiosity, in the spirit of research, he went there.
The reason why he went was that he didn't think it was a genetic disease, but more like an infectious disease.
In order to confirm this, he deliberately flew to that tribe.
Start researching what the hell is going on.
Once there, he investigated it rigorously.
Perform physical examinations for tribal people.
That's it little by little.
But in fact, he didn't see the problem.
Let him find himself in a dead end in his research.
He did not find any microorganisms such as fungi or bacteria that caused the source of infection.
After knowing that neither was possible, she began to suspect that it was a trick of the virus.
However, after checking back and forth, he did not find out what virus it was, which indicates that he was in the wrong direction.
There may have been a mistake in his thinking, but at this point he still didn't give up, and he searched for the reason in the tribe, but he couldn't find it.
So he started to change directions, and he wondered if it was an environmental problem? For example, the water quality, the soil, or some unknown radioactive source nearby.
He started the investigation again, and after checking for a long time, he found that the direction of the investigation was still not right, and it was not a so-called environmental problem at all.
At this time, even he wondered if it was really a genetic disease? But in the end, he didn't give up.
He wasn't quite sure it was a genetic disease, and it felt like there was something negligent.
He stayed in that tribe and continued to observe the situation, eating and living with the tribe's people.
After a long time, the people of the tribe finally accepted him better.
I feel that this is a very good person, and he can be regarded as an extranumerary.
A lot of things in the tribe.
I stopped hiding it from him and asked him to join.
Finally, one day, he finally waited for the answer to his question.
A respected elder of the tribe died, and he died of that disease.
After the onset of this condition, the whole body will tremble, and gradually the whole person will begin to lose the ability to exercise.
When the disease is severe, the patient begins to forget all of his previous memories, and within about half a year.
During the onset of the disease, the patient would laugh madly from time to time, and eventually die.
Once the disease begins to flare up, no one escapes.
The elder of the tribe did not escape.
In the end, he died like that.
And because he has lived with the tribesmen for a long time.
Let the people of the tribe gradually agree with him to join.
So he was invited to attend the solemn mourning ceremony after the death of the elder.
After the ceremony began, his eyes were opened, and he experienced an unprecedented shock.
EMMMMM, fortunately, he belongs to the bold people, so he has to bear the impact.
If the faint of heart saw that scene, they would be frightened crazy on the spot, and the most important part of this ritual was cannibalism.
At the end of the day, the skull of the deceased is opened, the brain of the deceased is removed, and after being cut into slices, everyone present is given a slice.
At that time, he was quite shocked, but he also knew that he had to take it, in the eyes of the tribesmen, it was to treat him as his own, if he dared to not, he was afraid that he would be an enemy immediately.
As an educated person, I didn't eat that piece of brain, but brought it back to the lab and did all kinds of research.
It's just that after using a lot of methods to probe that piece of brain, he found that he still found nothing.
So he decided to extract the protein particles in the brain.
Shoot all this stuff into the chimpanzee's brain.
It was found that chimpanzees also had the disease.
He was thrilled by the discovery, and sure enough, he had the right idea.
To do this, he injected protease-treated protein particles into the chimpanzee's brain.
The chimpanzee was safe and sound, and after some thought, he was enlightened.
That's why people in the Frey tribe get sick all the time.
Then he had made a mistake in his previous research direction.
The most helpless thing is the customs and habits of the Ferre tribe.
It is because they have always believed that eating the flesh of their loved ones purifies the soul.
It's just that what they didn't expect was that this custom caused more of their people to die.
Due to scientific and technological reasons, his research did not directly discover this virus that came and went without a trace.
It wasn't until the late eighties that Prusina, a biologist at AMR, finally discovered a substance that he didn't know how to define, that is, the Nguyen virus.
In fact, Ruan virus is not a virus in the real sense, because it has no nucleic acid, only protein, but it is a factor that can replicate itself and can be infected.
With more research, people were surprised to find that the human immune system was unaware of the Ruan virus, and it was difficult to quarantine it on its own.
After identifying the substance, scientists studied it more deeply and made more surprising discoveries.
This substance is extremely resistant, and ultraviolet rays, high temperatures, biochemical agents, etc., cannot destroy it.
Even the stomach acid and protease in the human body cannot destroy the structure of this substance.
If you want to kill the Ruan virus, it takes 300 degrees to be able to kill the Ruan virus.
When he saw this, the corners of Ling Xiao's mouth twisted slightly.
But she kept reading.
Want to see what the characteristics of this virus are.
What will happen to humans and animals when they are infected with the virus?
When they have this condition, their brains become spongipy.
How do you look at it, this disease is especially like a cow with mad cow disease, Ling Xiao thought of this.
The reason why mad cow disease occurs is that those sick cattle are fed the powder of the cow's bones.
Ling Xiao wondered in his heart that this is the retribution of cannibalism? This is true for cows, and it is also true for humans.
At the very least, both have spongy brains that look very similar.
It is indeed a possibility! Maybe it's all Nguyen virus.
If you look down, you'll see that it's really true.
This virus is contagious between humans and animals.
After being locked up and quarantined, she watched more information with relish.
Fortunately, the Nguyen virus generally does not break out on a large scale, and it is generally eaten with food that carries the Nguyen virus.
Or when transplanting an organ, the original donor was a patient with Ruan virus, or a contaminated instrument.
If you don't have any of the above, you will basically not be infected with the Ruan virus.
With the help of science, human beings have solved very mysterious, but in fact, regular things.
Again, one thing is confirmed: the more you know, the more you will discover ignorance.
For example, Darwin's theory of evolution prevailed.
There are still different voices appearing.
For example, are humans really fully evolved?
Or with the help of some mysterious being, to accept some kind of improvement.
And then to survive on Earth, there are countless gaps in between.
To be honest, seeing this, Ling Xiao was also confused, how did humans come about?
It's still an unknown mystery, and evolutionarily speaking, humans evolved little by little.
But because the human body has too many secrets, it has not yet been cracked.