"Lots of hollow holes in the brain?"

Xia Ren couldn't help but ask out loud.

When he heard that the first case was a sudden death from epilepsy at night, he didn't really care.

Hearing the two cases was nothing, the brain injury was already fatal, but in the third case, when the nine-year-old girl suddenly yelled every night when she slept and was diagnosed with a phobia, he unconsciously thought of Zhao Rou in his mind.

This symptom is similar to Zhao Rou's, and the doctor in Jupiter City once consulted Zhao Rou, although it was discussed that the probability of suffering from central sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome was relatively high, but Yu Jingjing also said that she may also suffer from phobias.

Poor night's sleep, coupled with phobia, Zhao Rou's symptoms are simply too similar to those of the nine-year-old girl

Especially in the end, the autopsy found that there were a large number of hollowed-out holes in the patient's brain, which was suspected to be affected by some kind of parasite, which directly reminded him of the long white worm he had seen in Zhao Rou's eyes in his dream.

"Could it be that after that kind of insect reproduces, it can actually break through the dream realm and come to reality to devour people's brains?"

Xia Ren felt a tingling in his scalp.

The vice president who introduced the situation looked at Xia Ren, temporarily put down the information in his hand, and asked, "Do you have any questions?" ”

"No, no, you continue."

Xia Ren planned to wait for him to finish his report.

Niu Changshou glanced at him and didn't say anything.

The vice president continued: "The three cases were separated by about two months, and except for the first case, the patient had a previous history of hypertension, and the remaining two cases had no relevant medical history. ”

"Then a month apart, the fourth case appeared ......"

Listening to the vice president's narration, everyone gradually understood the process of the development and spread of the disease.

Since the first case appeared in December last year, there was nothing unusual, but by April this year, there was a sudden increase in similar cases, and all patients were spared, all of them died from various causes, and by September this year, the cumulative number of cases had increased to 100.

The main causes of death are cerebral artery steal syndrome, respiratory failure, acute heart failure, acute coronary syndrome, hepatic encephalopathy, intracerebral hemorrhage, multiple system atrophy, and chorea......

These conditions are diverse, and they occur in patients of all ages, and they seem to be unrelated, but there is only one thing that patients have in common: awakening and babbling during night.

However, Dongpu City is so big, and the number of people who die every day due to various diseases is close to thousands, and these 100 people did not attract much attention at that time, or rather, no one connected them at all.

And then after April, things started to go wrong.

In the past, there was no one able to connect the cases because of the very low similarity, the scattered patients, and the hospitals they visited were basically different, but after April, the changes began.

The first case of signs of infection was a couple, first the man was admitted to the hospital for myocarditis, according to his girlfriend's description, he had frequent nightmares for the previous half month, but the content of the dream was forgotten when he woke up, and two days after the man was hospitalized, his girlfriend also had similar symptoms.

Of course, this did not attract much attention at the time, but it was just a coincidence, and it was not revealed until a few months later.

From the first suspected case in December last year, up to now, only in Dongpu City, the suspected cumulative cases have risen to 800 cases, at the end of October, when the population was counted by case, it was found that the case fatality rate of the permanent population in Dongpu City in the past four months has increased by 13 percentage points compared with before, and then traced back to the past, it was found that since May this year, the mortality rate began to slowly rise, which finally attracted the attention of the Affiliated Hospital of Dongpu University of Science and Technology, and they began to investigate, and the results were dug deeper. The more shocked they are by the terrible consequences hidden behind these cases.

"For various reasons, the statistics are not accurate, 800 cases is just a very vague number, maybe less, maybe more, and ......"

The vice president paused: "And this does not include the floating population in Dongpu City this year. ”

If it can be confirmed that this is a new type of pollution disease and that it is contagious......

Just thinking about it makes me feel cold.

The vice president turned on the projector and showed a chart showing the trend of cases.

It can be clearly seen that the distinction between May and September is a turning point, especially in September, the curve that originally rose slightly to September, it suddenly rose a lot, and the suspected cases showed explosive growth, and the number of new cases in the past month was several times that of the previous nine months.

The screen of the projector switched to a fan-shaped map, and the vice president continued: "We can see that the main symptoms of all suspected cases are concentrated in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and nervous system diseases, and there are also a few mental system diseases and circulatory diseases, as well as respiratory diseases, whose central cerebrovascular diseases account for 50% of all cases, nervous system diseases account for 30%, and the rest of the number is less than 20%, if this is the case alone, there is no connection between them at all, but, No matter what kind of symptoms a patient exhibits, there are bound to be two problems......"

The projector's picture switches again, and the entire fangram is covered in a translucent blue with two symptoms written on it.

"One of them is sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome, and the second is specific phobias."

The vice dean looked solemn and said, "I would tentatively classify them as atypical sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome, or if I named them according to the most striking features, that is."

- Atypical phobia. ”

After he finished speaking, he looked at the longevity of the cow and asked for his opinion.

Niu Changshou nodded and agreed with the naming: "Please continue." ”

"These investigations alone are not enough, and to determine whether atypical phobia qualifies as a contagious disease, three key points must be met: the pathogen, the human body, and the environment in which they live," the Vice-Dean continued. ”

"But unfortunately, we have only been able to confirm a human body, pathogens and the environment in which they are located so far, and we only have speculation at present, and we have no solid evidence yet."

The picture on the projector switched again, and the vice president's tone became a little more serious.

On the screen, an anatomized human brain appears.

"For various reasons, we have only dissected the bodies of 33 of the 800 suspected cases so far.

Regardless of the predominant symptoms of these patients during their lifetime, a distinctive feature can be found after dissection.

Their brains have basically lost 5%-30% of their mass! ”

The picture is enlarged, and more details are presented in front of everyone's eyes.

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