Chapter 207: Tropical Rainforest
Africa, primary forests near the equator.
The first rays of the morning sun shine through the clouds, and the primeval forest is filled with fog.
In the depths of the forest, beasts and birds chirp.
A swarthy figure hid in the forest, surrounded by a trap he had laid.
It is a place where monkeys are frequented.
The black hunters had been lurking here for a day and a night, and finally the monkeys began to pass by.
A monkey stepped into a trap and was caught in a trap, and the monkeys were frightened and fled in all directions screaming.
Soon, silence returned, leaving only the hunter and the monkey hanging in the air by the net.
The black hunter killed the monkey and dragged the monkey's carcass out of the forest.
There is a deep, wide river running through the edge of the forest, and there are many scattered small villages on both sides of the river.
One of the larger villages has a market where people from the surrounding area come to buy and sell.
The hunter dragged the monkey's carcass to the bazaar, chose a lively place, skillfully skinned and deboned the monkeys, and began to sell them.
A slightly chubby middle-aged black woman, who took a fancy to the processed monkey meat, bought it all back, and was ready to cook a big meal for her family.
Two days later, the hunters were still lurking in the rainforest, continuing to hunt the monkeys.
But he, who had always been strong, fell ill.
He felt dizzy and hot, every joint and muscle in his body began to hurt, and to make matters worse, he began to vomit, his stomach turned over, and his internal organs felt like they were about to melt, and all he vomited was a cloud of flesh and blood.
The disease came on so suddenly and so rapidly that the hunter felt that he was dying.
He dragged his heavy legs and prepared to leave the forest where he was hunting and go home.
But he couldn't walk.
He collapsed in the woods, bleeding from every hole in his body, looking like a pile of blood-stained black flesh.
Soon, the hunter died.
The monkeys passed by, glanced back at the hunter's corpse, and quietly left.
At the same time, a middle-aged woman who had bought monkey meat from hunters also showed similar symptoms, first with fever, then vomiting, and finally bleeding from her whole body and died.
After the woman's death, her family was saddened, but quickly prepared for the funeral.
According to the local funeral customs, relatives and friends reluctantly touch and kiss the dead woman at the funeral, say goodbye to her, and finally bury the woman.
The next day, the people who had attended the funeral began to have symptoms similar to those of women and hunters: fever, body aches, vomiting......
Then came the same ending, bleeding all over his body and dying.
People began to panic.
Like the specter of death, the disease quickly spread to the surrounding villages.
In just one month, dozens of villages were hit by the disease, and almost no one was spared.
The village was littered with bloodstained corpses, and there was no one alive to collect them.
The once bustling village has become dead and silent, like hell on earth.
Similar cases are beginning to emerge in one of the cities closest to the forested village.
City hospitals are crowded with patients with fevers.
The doctors were busy in the hospital, and they could not do anything about this sudden illness, but could only watch the patients die one by one.
There are several foreign faces among the busy local black doctors, who are members of the MSF Resident Rescue Team.
One of the men was dark-haired, yellow-skinned, and had a typical Asian look.
He is tall and thin, has a gentle temperament, treats every patient very gently, and although his steps are busy, his aura is very calm.
After a busy day, the man finally found a free time and was ready to rest for a while.
After taking off his protective suit and returning to his humble office, the man pulled out a photo from the pocket of his coat.
The photo shows an airport in China, there are many people standing in the airport hall, as if welcoming someone back, the welcome ceremony is very warm, there are flowers, there are banners, a man and a woman in the middle of the photo are very eye-catching, the man hugs the woman, and the two are smiling......
The Oriental man looked at the photo, and the look on his face was heavier than when he was busy just now.
Suddenly, a handsome blonde guy pushed open the office door and walked in.
The Oriental man hurriedly put away the photo.
The handsome doctor who had just come in didn't notice the Dongfang man's movements, but greeted him directly, "Hi, Alex, there are more and more patients, the epidemic is out of control, we need to ask the headquarters for support." ”
"Yes, the medical conditions here are too backward, the epidemic is no longer under control, and we need more international support except for us at Médecins Sans Frontières."
Lianhai Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Emergency Office.
The five members of the CDC emergency response team are all in the office, and everyone is sitting at their desks browsing information online.
The biggest news in recent times is another Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Although the outbreak is still under control in several countries in West Africa, imported cases cannot be ruled out.
Therefore, all domestic centers for disease control and prevention, Haikou coastal inspection and quarantine agencies, and entry and exit have strengthened the frequency and intensity of daily monitoring.
Lu Li looked at the report on the Ebola epidemic in West Africa on the website, and sighed: "This Ebola virus will come out every few years to make a fuss, and how it appeared first is still a hypothesis and no conclusion." ”
Wang smiled: "Ebola is a zoonotic disease that can infect humans and primates, so the introduction of Ebola into the human world must be inseparable from monkeys." ”
Gao Fei: "The Ebola epidemic is coming rapidly, several countries in West Africa have submitted international rescue applications to the World Health Organization, and our country has always taken the lead in this regard. ”
Zhou Jie: "It is very likely that when there was an earthquake in the south before, our disease control team has sent out two batches of medical rescue teams, and this time there is an international rescue mission, and it is very possible to send personnel out from us again." ”
Overseas rescue and domestic rescue missions are very different, and there are high requirements for the quality of the dispatched personnel, and the members of the emergency response team all look at Gu Yanan.
Gu Yanan has overseas study experience, professional quality and foreign language proficiency are very good, he has spent more than half a year in Africa when he was doing graduate projects, and he is familiar with African customs and customs.
If you want to select the members of the rescue team abroad from the Lianhai City Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Gu Yanan will be the best choice.
As members of the emergency response team were in their offices discussing the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the landline bell rang on Gu Yanan's desk.
Picking up the phone, it was Director Yang, the biggest leader of the Lianhai CDC.
Gu Yanan was called to the director's office by Director Yang, and after a brief conversation, Gu Yanan returned to his emergency office.
In the emergency office, the team members were very interested in the conversation between Gu Yanan and the leaders of the center.
Without waiting for the team members to ask, Gu Yanan took the initiative to explain, "Just now Director Yang asked me about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and my country is preparing to set up a medical team to go to West Africa, and experts are being selected from the disease control system and the medical and health system, and I am in the first batch of members." ”