Gu Jiashu on the other end of the phone was slightly stunned, but the little sister understood his thoughts.

"Well, we just had a strange patient in our hospital and want you to come and have a look."

If you can make your brother Gu Jiashu use the word "strange", the patient's symptoms must be very rare.

In order to save time, Gu Yanan no longer asked about the specific symptoms, and directly agreed, "Okay, I'll go over right now." ”

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Lianhai First People's Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases.

Disposal room.

Gu Yanan first gave blocking drugs to several doctors and nurses who were exposed to occupation in the disposal room, then collected blood, put the blood into the sampling box, asked for the details, filled in the information, and instructed everyone a few words of precautions in the next month.

After finishing the work of AIDS occupational exposure, Gu Yanan asked Gu Jiashu, who had been following him, "Brother, what about the strange patient you are talking about?" ”

"Come with me, they're in the B ward."

Ward B is the most protected ward in the infectious disease department, and she lived in the ward B when she was infected with Ebola virus in West Africa and came back for treatment.

And with "they", are there still many patients infected with highly pathogenic microorganisms?

"Brother, what's the situation?"

"You'll know if you look at it."

With a stomach full of questions, Gu Yanan followed his brother Gu Jiashu to the corridor outside the ward in Area B.

At the entrance to the sealed door of the hallway, two uniformed police officers stood.

Gu Yanan's questioning mood chuckled again, and he muttered quietly, as if he was asking his brother Gu Jiashu who was following him, "What's the matter?" Why are there still police here? Could it be that the patient inside committed a crime? ”

"The patients inside were sent by the police, and I don't know what they did, so I just treat the patients."

Putting on isolation gowns and protective equipment, Gu Jiashu and Gu Yanan showed their work cards, and two police officers let them go and entered the ward of Area B of the Infectious Diseases Department through the airtight door in the corridor.

In addition to the airtight door outside the corridor, there are two doors inside, which come to the isolation ward in Area B, which has a transparent glass wall and can clearly see the situation inside the ward from the outside.

There were three patients lying in the ward.

It's not so much lying down as being tied to a bed.

The patient's body trembled, and his head kept shaking, a bit like the angular arch reflex of an infected tetanus bacillus, and the posture was very strange.

Staring at the patients in the ward through the glass wall, Gu Yanan frowned slightly, "Brother, what's wrong with these people?" ”

"At about 4 o'clock in the morning today, the police sent these three people here, and when they first came, these three people were very angry, they wanted to bite when they saw people, and their posture was weird, it was really a bit like a zombie in a science fiction movie.

The police suspected that he had taken drugs, but the fellow patients who came with him swore that they had not taken drugs, and the reason for this situation may be that they were infected with the zombie virus. ”

Gu Yanan sneered, "Zombie virus? This is a good reason, in order to excuse his behavior, he can really make up any reason, but unfortunately there is no zombie virus in this world. ”

"I know there's no zombie virus."

"Brother, since you know that you have not lost the virus, why are you still putting them in such a high-level isolation ward?"

"When the patients were first delivered, many medical staff saw their strange behavior, and even the doctors and nurses felt scared, plus the police were not sure that they had really taken drugs, and their symptoms were different from those of ordinary addicts.

"Brother, you called me here to ask CDC to help diagnose the cause?"

"Yes, your disease control can detect a wide spectrum of pathogens, and there are many types of compounds that can be checked, but this time the situation is special, and it may not be easy to screen."

"Brother, where did these three patients stay before they were sent by the police? In other words, where is the time of onset? ”

According to the information provided by the police at the time, the three people were playing in a "Meow Meow Bar" in the bar street of University Town, Dongcheng District, when the staff in the bar found that the three people behaved abnormally and attacked the guests in the bar, so they called the police and were sent to the hospital. ”

"I have a target of suspicion."

As soon as Gu Yanan said that he had a suspicious target, Gu Jiashu was a little surprised, "What do you think is the cause?" ”

"Zombie bath salts, have you heard of them?"

"I've seen a report before that a synthetic stimulant appeared abroad, and people will behave weirdly after eating it, but I haven't seen such a case report in China, do you suspect that they smoked zombie bath salts?"

"Brother, I have a video here for you to see."

Gu Yanan called up the video that Lu Li sent her in the morning from her mobile phone, which was about the suspected zombie bite incident that occurred on the Internet café street in University Town, Dongcheng District, in the early hours of last night.

After watching the video, Gu Jiashu recognized at a glance that the "zombie" in the video was the first patient sent last night.

Immediately after this zombie, there were two patients who were bitten by him, and about two hours later, the three people in the ward of Area B were sent by the police one after another.

"The three people in the ward behave the same as the zombie in the video, and the zombie in the video, as well as the two people who were bitten by him, are also in our hospital."

"Where? Why isn't it in the B ward ward? ”

Gu Yanan didn't find the zombies in the video in the ward of Area B in front of him, according to his brother Gu Jiashu, before the cause was confirmed, they should all be placed in the isolation ward of Area B.

"The two people who were bitten, one was arranged in the ward of Area A because his condition was relatively stable, the other was in a more serious condition and was rescued in the ICU, and a college student who did not appear on the video was bitten and his arm was also arranged in the ward of Area A, as for the perpetrator zombie...... In the morgue. ”

"Dead?!"

"Well, the perpetrator was in a very unstable condition when he was delivered, and he was not rescued for half an hour, and now he has been placed in the morgue, and the police will transport the body back to the forensic center after a while, after all, this is a criminal case with a bad impact."

"Brother, I want to keep a specimen of that zombie in the morgue."

Gu Jiashu understood Gu Yanan's intentions, she thought that since the deceased in the morgue had similar symptoms to the three patients in front of her, then they might have the same cause, and if they were examined together, maybe they could find out what kind of connection, which would be more conducive to the diagnosis of the cause.

"Okay, I'll take you to the morgue for sampling."