Rao had already seen many terrifying images, but when Xia Ren saw the projection, he couldn't help but gasp.

To be honest, at first glance he didn't see that it was a human brain, with a slightly dark yellow brain fragmented, like a mass of tofu scum piled together, but if you look closely, you can still distinguish the unique groove structure of the cerebral cortex from the disgusting white residue.

"That's a 30 percent loss of mass in the patient's brain."

The vice president said: "The patient died suddenly at work, except for poor sleep, his family and colleagues did not find any other obvious abnormalities in him before his death, and the autopsy found that although he lost nearly one-third of the mass of his brain, almost none of the lost parts touched the functional area. ”

"What is Brunnse?"

Xia Ren whispered to Niu Changshou next to him, and the latter explained: "You can simply imagine the brain as several rooms, the rooms are connected by passages, and the Bronzheng is that there are cysts, tumors, or cysts and other things in the fourth room, because the person's body position suddenly changes, causing these things to also move their positions, blocking the exit of the fourth room, and affecting the brain function." Got it? ”

"Got it."

Xia Ren nodded.

Actually, he still doesn't quite understand.

These professional medical terms involve his knowledge blind spots, and even the introduction just now he was confused, such as hepatic encephalopathy, choreopathy, cerebral artery steal syndrome, and he was completely confused.

The vice dean switched to the next picture, this time the brain was much more complete than just now, but the slender and twisted holes in the fissure of the cerebral cortex could still make people feel serious discomfort, Xia Ren subconsciously recalled the escape he experienced in the ancient dream not long ago, the cave inhabited by Baiaki was like an enlarged version of the brain at this time, and the winding and rugged cave inside was the hole in the brain at this time.

It was a terrible memory, and when he remembered the last stage of the ancient dream, the fat body under the maggot's cloak, Xia Ren felt that the discomfort in his heart was even worse.

"It's not just that."

The vice president continued: "Dissecting the brains of the rest of the patients found that although these hollowed-out holes were eating away at the brain, they basically did not touch the functional area, and the brains of the vast majority of patients did not have any infection, so although they looked horrible, in fact, the damage they caused to the human body was very limited.

According to the available data, nearly 70 percent of the deaths are not due to brain damage, but to other causes. ”

"Any idea?"

Niu Changshou asked.

The two professors, along with the associate dean, looked at each other and shook their heads.

"There are many ways in which patients die, many of which are due to physical exhaustion leading to accidents in their lives, some of them are due to great mental pressure and choose to commit suicide, and some are sudden deaths of unknown causes and irreversible multi-organ failure."

One of the professors added: "It's also a mystery as to why the hollowed-out holes in the brain form and where the missing brain tissue goes. We suspect that it is due to some kind of parasite, but so far no trace of the worm's activity has been found, and no parasite secretions or other foreign bodies have been detected in the patient's brain, and more importantly, none of the suspected patients have developed an immune response, indicating that there is no foreign body invasion in the body. In other words, the patient's body has not been invaded by normal organisms. ”

Immune response refers to the host's immune response to parasite antigens, which is divided into three stages: antigen processing and presentation, immune cell reproduction and differentiation stage, and cellular immunity and humoral immunity.

Although it seems to be a way for the immune system to fight parasites, in fact, immunity should not only bring good results, it is divided into two types, one is protective immunity with different degrees of protection against the host, and the other is to cause host tissue damage and immunopathological damage, usually these two results will exist in the same host at the same time.

Most of the clinical manifestations produced by the immune response process are relatively obvious and therefore also helpful to the doctor's diagnosis.

If these cases are really caused by a parasite, it is still tricky to be able to trigger a human immune response that does not trigger, or is very weak.

Niu Changshou quietly listened to their opinions and thought in his heart.

"From the first suspected case to the present, we have shown the residential addresses of all the patients on the map in the order in which they appeared, from shallow to dark, and the result is such an rendering."

The vice president turned up the map screen, and it can be clearly seen that starting from Dongpu University of Science and Technology, the dense red dots are circular and spread like the entire Dongpu City, and the source of atypical insect phobia is instantly clear at a glance.

"...... of Dongpu University of Science and Technology"

Niu Changshou narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Maybe it has something to do with the incident two years ago." ”

"Two years ago?"

The vice dean frowned and thought for a while, and suddenly said in surprise: "Are you talking about the case where the paleontologist disappeared with a dozen students?" ”

"It's not certain yet."

Niu Changshou stretched his body and said, "Let's introduce it here for the time being, are there any surviving cases?" Take me to see it. ”

"Yes."

Two professors got up from their seats, they were experts in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular and neurosurgery, and they also knew about the existence of the World Superhuman Association, so they could participate in this.

The vice president walked in front and said while showing them the way: "At present, the number of patients in our hospital has been reduced by about 70%, and we do not accept inpatients, and all the suspicious cases in Dongpu City have been admitted to our hospital. ”

"Then aren't you afraid of being infected?"

Qin Yun couldn't help but ask.

The vice dean turned his head, glanced at her, and said flatly, "You don't understand what that means." ”

Yes, Qin Yun is not a medical professional, and she can't understand the other party's explanation just now, so she hasn't realized the seriousness of the problem yet.

A disease with a fatality rate of almost 100%, strong insidiousness, acute onset symptoms, can greatly affect the quality of life of patients, and has a high probability of being contagious, but the worst thing is that its transmission route is still unknown.

There are very few examples of such a serious infectious disease in history, and if I had to find one for comparison, it would be the plague!

Although only 1,200 cases have been detected, it is so difficult to diagnose them that no one knows how many people have been infected.

As a large commercial and tourist city, Dongpu welcomes more than 300 million tourists every year, and the airport's runway never stops 24 hours a day, where planes take off and land all the time, carrying people to all over the world and people from all over the world.

It took a few months for atypical phobia to spread from the University of Science and Technology to all corners of the city, which has a resident population of more than 10 million, increasing the case fatality rate of the entire city by 13 percentage points.

So how long will it take for Dongpu City to spread its existence to all corners of the world?

It's not just a disease.

It is...... Pestilence!

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