Chapter 460: Cotton Blue Virus
The causative microorganism is a filovirus that is detected in monkeys, in the body fluids of patients, and in the feces.
Just looking at its Ruyi-like appearance, you will think that it is the "brother" of the notorious Ebola and Marburg viruses. Symptoms are also similar, such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding outside the body, fever. But in fact, there are obvious traces of editing of the viral genes.
Midoudou believes that this is a highly pathogenic and highly lethal man-made virus based on the Marburg virus. Since the identification center is located in Mianlan City, Midoudou named the virus Mianlanvirus.
Mi Doudou ruled out the possibility that the laboratory animals at the identification center were the source of the disease, and none of her and her team were infected. The source could only be the monkey.
She also believes that body fluids, excrement, vomit, droplets, aerosols are certainly the main routes of transmission, but airborne transmission cannot be ruled out, otherwise the transmission rate would not be so fast. Historically, there have been airborne variants of the Marburg virus.
Midoudou said her team is isolating the strain of the virus and will soon be working on a therapeutic vaccine.
Shi Xiangyun asked: "How long does it take to develop a vaccine?" ”
Mi Doudou said: "At least one month." ”
One month is very fast for vaccine development. Centuries ago, vaccines were developed in years.
"It's too late, they can't drag it that long." Shi Xiangyun said.
Mi Doudou was silent for a long time before saying: "There are many similarities between the blue virus and the Marburg virus, and the specific drugs against the Marburg virus may have a certain inhibitory effect on the blue virus, but the Marburg virus has been eliminated for three centuries, and the related drugs have long been discontinued." If there is a drug formula, it may be able to be concocted. Let me ask Yan. ”
"You're busy, I'll ask Yan Fengli." Shi Xiangyun paused and asked again, "How is that monkey?" ”
"It's dead, it's dead when you teleport."
Shi Xiangyun was lucky, if the monkey was still alive after teleporting, then the black box teleportation of a living body could become a reality. He shook his head and threw the thought aside, the first task for now was to save people. After saying goodbye to Doudou's sister, he immediately called Yan Fengli.
Yan Fengli did not have a prescription for a specific drug for the Marburg virus, but he provided a clue. The last outbreak of the Marburg virus epidemic was in 2313, and the variant was so pathogenic and transmissible that it swept through almost all of Africa. In that war "epidemic", the most eye-catching performance was not Western medicine, but traditional Chinese medicine.
Shi Xiangyun and Yan Fengli thought of a person at the same time, Jiang Lianxing, an old Chinese medicine doctor in Shengping Town. This old man has treated both Luo Youcheng and the witch, and his medical skills and medical ethics are commendable. Luo Youcheng once sent him a pennant: hanging pot to help the world, and the art is fine; Treat the patient like a parent, both virtue and art.
The task of contacting Jiang Lianxing fell on Luo Youcheng's head. Luo Youcheng once gave Jiang Lianxing a wrist satellite phone. There were only three people who called the old man, Luo Youcheng, the witch and Shang Shiyin. Luo Youcheng and the witch were grateful and often called to greet him. Shi Yin has high emotional intelligence, not to mention that the old man is the benefactor of Mr.
The standby time of a satellite phone is eight months. Luo Youcheng has been lying down for two years, the witch has been replaced by the black witch, and he has been wandering for two years, and he has not contacted the old man for a long time, and I don't know if he will remember to charge the wrist phone. Fortunately, the academy often keeps in touch with Lei Hong, but he doesn't have to worry about finding Old Man Jiang.
The phone was dialed out, and someone answered it when it rang, and there was a hearty laugh from the old man Jiang on the other end of the phone:
"Hahaha, little sir, I finally got your call. Hearing Shiyin talk about you and Isha's daughter made me anxious. It's good if you're awake, it's good if you're awake. ”
In the past two years, in order to wait for Mr. Xiao's call, the old man has charged the phone every two months.
"Hello Jiang." Luo Youcheng greeted him, and then turned to the topic, he didn't have time to greet him now. He briefly talked about the epidemic.
"Those people, it's really a loss of conscience!" Old man Jiang scolded, and comforted, "Don't worry, I'll look for it right away, I've collected a lot of ancient recipes." I know about the Marburg virus, and Chinese medicine became very popular in Africa later. That recipe might be able to find out. ”
There was no sound on the old man's side, so he probably went to his brain to look up the prescription. After a few minutes, the old man said:
"It's too old to be found. I still have quite a few paper books, I'll look them up and call you later. ”
Jiang Lianxing searched for a long time, until everyone retreated to the underground town of Su Island, and the old man didn't call. Luo Youcheng has a little regret, but he can't say that he is disappointed, he just has the attitude of giving it a try, and he is fortunate to have it and lose his life.
There are no more buildings in the underground town, no less, ninety-nine, most of which are residential houses. There are seven public buildings, which are used as office buildings, supermarkets, hospitals, hotels, restaurants, entertainment clubs and lake parks.
Luo Youcheng doesn't understand the brain circuits of "uncle and grandfather" very well. If this is an emergency shelter, it doesn't make sense. Rubber Island is located in the Pacific Rim Seismic Zone, where earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes are frequent, and people with ADHD are not honest, and there is an active volcano near Sioux Island. The world is getting bigger, and if you look for a random place, I'm afraid it's better to build a shelter than here.
That being said, Luo Youcheng is still very grateful to his "uncle and grandfather", at least for giving them a foothold in extraordinary times.
It was Shang Shiyin who greeted Luo Youcheng and the others, and he brought very bad news. The number of cases has doubled to 271, accounting for more than half of the total population.
But Shang Shiyin is a person who would rather be a magpie than a crow, so he added another good news: the master mother is fine, the witch is fine, Shi Yanshan, the eagle, and the electric eel king are fine, and of course, he is also fine. These are all people close to Mr., and in the absence of good news, this news can be regarded as a placebo for Mr.
Luo Youcheng asked casually, "What about your apprentice?" ”
The merchant replied, "He went out." Said to collect more dragon blood, this thing is useful for boo. The skin of the punk dragon has not yet had time to be collected. ”
Luo Youcheng asked: "After so much time, the dragon's blood has clotted into blood clots, right?" ”
Shang Shiyin replied: "The dragon's blood seems to be anticoagulated, and the six barrels collected before have not coagulated at room temperature. It's just been put in the freezer. ”
Chunfeng is willing to clean up the battlefield, and Luo Youcheng can only let him go. The healthy people here are all laymen, and in addition to being able to do some hard work, their nursing ability is not as good as intelligence. He told Shang Shiyin to keep in touch with the spring breeze. Chunfeng is a close contact of the monkeys, and it is also a problem if you get sick outside.
All the patients were placed in the hospital, one person in a separate ward, and enjoyed the treatment of the senior cadres of the old era.
Strange to say, the population of the town is about 3,000, and the hospital has 600 beds, with an average of 5 people per bed. The medical facilities are complete, and there are more than 200 medical intelligences stacked in the warehouse alone. It's like we're going to have a group of sick people here, and everyone is taking turns to be hospitalized.
Charizard opened the crow's mouth and said, "It's okay, even if all of us fall, we won't have to worry about running out of beds." ”
The crowd rolled their eyes at him through the masks, including five of his men.
Shi Xiangyun asked: "Youcheng, when was this underground town built?" ”
"It was built in 2653."
"Two years before the outbreak of the SDR virus? Could it be that the richest man Su heard something and took precautions? ”
Su Shoufu has made a lot of friends, and it is not surprising that he has obtained some secrets in the biochemical circle. If this underground town was a quarantine in response to the plague more than twenty years ago, it would also explain why the hospital has such good hardware.
This speculation was confirmed by Shang Shiyin. As the youngest son of the chief security adviser of the richest man in Su, Shang Shiyin heard some words from his father: the richest man heard the news from somewhere, the world will face a catastrophe in a few years, and a shelter has been built for this. But how and where to build it? Shang Shiyin is not very clear.
It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, and this town did not have time to be opened. The SDR virus is like a ticking time bomb that suddenly explodes all over the world. People have no time to deal with it at all, those who can carry it over, and those who can't carry it will all die within two or three days, and Su Shoufu and his family have not been spared.
Shang Shiyin said: "What a coincidence, the place that the master didn't use more than 20 years ago was found by us." ”
It's a coincidence, indeed, like providence.
After entering the hospital, the elder brother Shi Yanshan, the electric eel king Wang Zejun, and the eagle greeted him. Luo Youcheng is like a big chief, with a group of subordinates, room by room to visit and condole.
The hospital has equipment, but no medicine. In fact, even if I had medicine, I couldn't use it after more than 20 years. Fortunately, there are black boxes, and there are drug packages in sorting centers everywhere. There are no specific drugs, antiviral drugs are available, Western medicines, and Chinese patent medicines.
The patients were given the antiviral drug ribavirin (virazole) and antiviral oral liquid, but the effect was not great. Medical intelligence can only target the symptoms and inject intravenous anti-emetic, antidiarrheal, hemostasis, and antipyretic drugs for patients.
The first people to get sick of the disease are getting worse. One female team member even had symptoms of vomiting blood and blood in the stool. The situation of the little chubby girl Spider-Man is also very bad, she broke her mouth, and there was blood between her teeth, and she was not far from vomiting blood.
The fat camel is the only exception, after the intravenous drip, the fever subsided, and the person is temporarily awake. Seeing a high-level cadre of the academy enter the door, the fat girl cried:
"Sir, am I going to die?"
Luo Youcheng encouraged: "You are very strong and have recovered well. Come on, fight for the first recovery, win the championship. ”
The fat camel symbolically raised her fist, and she was sore, and such a simple action was quite laborious to do. A medical intelligence squeezed over and fed the fat camel an antiviral oral liquid.
The fat camel said with a bitter face: "It's so unpleasant, it's worse than dragon blood." ”
Luo Youcheng asked, "Have you ever drunk dragon blood?" ”
"Didn't drink less." Wang Zejun on the side replied on behalf of the fat camel, "She corroded a hole in the esophagus of the punk dragon, and she was in the hole, and the dragon's blood was full of drink." When I dragged her out, I thought it was a pregnant woman. ”
The fat camel glanced at Wang Zejun with disgust, but in the face of Uncle Wang, who saved her life, she didn't have much to say.