Gu Yanan was thinking about what kind of peripherals to order for some green cultivators, when the office phone on the desk suddenly rang.

Picking up the phone, it was the district CDC calling, and the more Gu Yanan listened, the more frowning her brows became.

Hanging up the phone, Gu Yanan said to the emergency team members in the office, "Just now the district CDC called and said that the hospital had reported a case of suspected smallpox infection. ”

"Smallpox?!" Everyone asked in unison.

Zhou Lao: "The smallpox virus was declared eradicated worldwide by the World Health Organization as early as 1980, how could there be a sudden case of smallpox? Where is the patient? ”

"The patient is currently in the Department of Infectious Diseases of the First People's Hospital for isolation treatment."

Zhou Lao asked, "Is it Director Gu's brother Dr. Gu who made the diagnosis?" ”

Zhou Lao thought to himself, with Dr. Gu's level, if the smallpox virus was suspected from the symptoms, then there was a chance that it would be, and even if it wasn't, it would be other diseases with symptoms very similar to smallpox.

"No, my brother recently attended an academic conference in the field, and he was in charge of seeing other doctors in their infectious disease department."

It turned out that it was not Gu Jiashu's diagnosis, but the other doctor was able to report the epidemic, indicating that the patient's symptoms should be very similar to smallpox.

Zhou Lao volunteered, "Director Gu, I'll go to the hospital for sampling." ”

None of the members of the emergency team had ever seen smallpox patients in real life, so everyone was curious and said they all wanted to go to the hospital for sampling.

Gu Yanan assigned tasks to everyone, "Zhou Lao and I went to the hospital for sampling, Gao Fei and Lu Li were going to go to the things needed for the patient's living environment before the flow, Wang Xiaoxiao entered the epidemic system, and checked whether there were any cases of smallpox symptoms or chickenpox cases in Lianhai City recently, as long as there were cases of fever and rash, they were all within the scope of search." ”

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

Gu Yanan and Zhou Lao wore biosafety protective suits, carried sampling boxes, and came to the isolation ward where Li Yixuan was located.

The strange outfits of the two on the road attracted a lot of attention, and many people talked about it, wondering what major infectious disease epidemic had occurred in the hospital.

Outside Li Yixuan's hospital room, doctor Xiao Zhang was discussing something with a boy about 20 years old.

Doctor Xiao Zhang saw someone from the CDC coming, and hurriedly stepped forward, "Director Gu, your CDC people are finally here, quickly take samples of the patient for examination, we urgently need a laboratory basis for diagnosis." ”

"Show me the patient's medical records first."

Doctor Xiao Zhang handed over Li Yixuan's medical record file to Gu Yanan.

Gu Yanan watched it from beginning to end, and knew that Li Yixuan had just had heart surgery before, and suddenly had a rash on his body a few days ago, and then the rash turned into blisters, and now the blisters have turned into pustules, and many pustules have begun to leak pus, and the examination of the hospital's laboratory department shows that there are symptoms of viral infection.

"Let's go in and see the patient."

Gu Yanan and Zhou Lao were about to enter the isolation ward, when the young boy who was talking to the doctor Xiao Zhang just now suddenly stopped in front of Gu Yanan, "I want to go in with you, can you give me a set of isolation clothes?" ”

Doctor Xiao Zhang hurriedly stepped forward to explain, "This is a friend of the patient, since the patient was hospitalized, he has been staying here, originally we thought that Li Yixuan was infected with chickenpox virus, but it was this young man who reminded me that the herpes of chickenpox patients is generally centripetal, and the herpes on Li Yixuan's body is centrifugal, so I suspected that it was smallpox virus infection." ”

It turned out to be for friends who cared about patients, and also had medical knowledge.

Looking at each other, Gu Yanan saw the worry about the patient in the boy's eyes, so he asked, "Are you wearing a biosafety suit?" Do you know the precautions for its use? ”

The boy nodded, "Well, I studied medicine and have done biological experiments, so I often wear this kind of protective clothing. ”

Gu Yanan agreed and asked Zhou Lao to bring him a set of biosafety protective clothing.

Four people entered Li Yixuan's isolation ward.

Li Yixuan on the hospital bed was in a coma, his body was full of tubes, his face was covered with herpes, large and small, with red spots, blisters, pustules, many of which had begun to burst and drain pus.

The appearance is terrifying, ordinary chickenpox will not have such serious symptoms.

Gu Yanan collected pustule effluent from the patient's body, collected nasopharyngeal swabs, and drew blood.

Doctor Xiao Zhang muttered quietly on the side, "Isn't it very similar to the symptoms of a smallpox patient?" I have never seen this situation in real life, but I checked the literature, and there are pictures on it, and the symptoms of smallpox patients are exactly the same. ”

Gu Yanan also knew that Li Yixuan's symptoms were very similar to smallpox, but he was not a clinician, and clinicians could make clinical diagnoses based on symptoms alone, but CDC needed to obtain exact laboratory evidence.

"I will take the patient's samples to the CDC laboratory for testing as soon as possible, but I contacted the laboratory before I came, and there is no smallpox virus test kit at present, and we need to transfer the goods from the manufacturer, and the results will not be available until noon tomorrow at the earliest."

Zhou Lao looked at Li Yixuan, who was sleeping on the bed, shook his head and sighed, "The patient can't ask for information about the flow of information in this situation now, I really hope he has a family here." ”

When family isn't there, familiar friends can too.

Zhou Lao asked the boy on the side, "You are Li Yixuan's friend, you should know some of the circumstances before and after his illness." ”

The boy nodded, "I know some, I suspect that Li Yixuan may not be smallpox, it may be a monkeypox virus infection." ”

Everyone looked at the boy in disbelief.

Zhou Lao thought to himself, he didn't expect this boy to know about the monkeypox virus.

Doctor Xiao Zhang looked confused, what is monkeypox? Searching in my mind for the information I saw when I was in school, monkeypox virus is a virus that is circulating among primates and rodents in the tropical rainforests of Africa, it is a zoonose, but it rarely breaks out in humans, and the only relatively large outbreak experience is the one in the Americas around 2003, but I have not heard of the existence of monkeypox virus infection in China.

Why did this little boy suspect smallpox for a while, and then it might be monkeypox.

Smallpox is a disease that has long been declared eradicated, and monkeypox has never appeared in China, is what this little boy said credible?

Gu Yanan knew that smallpox virus and monkeypox virus infection had similar symptoms, and attached great importance to the little boy's reaction, "Why is monkeypox virus infection suspected?" Has Li Yixuan been to a foreign epidemic area before? ”

"He hasn't been abroad, but he recently had pet monkeys, and those two monkeys were imported from Africa."

Africa's tropical rainforests are the natural foci of the monkeypox virus, which is a natural reservoir for monkeys and rodent rats.