Gao Fei: "How can Xiao Chu have such a brother, the two have too different personalities, and they don't look alike, are the two born and raised by the same pair of parents?" And Chu Qingfeng is not very familiar with our sister Yanan, so he shouted so kindly, and he still wants to rob people with Officer Nan? I don't like it. ”

Old Zhou packed all the collected specimens in a centralized manner, and said with a smile, "Although this Chu Qingfeng has money in his family and looks good, he has no fun. ”

"Why?"

"A slap doesn't make a sound. Young man, take your time and you'll know later. ”

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Lianhai Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Laboratory.

Because of the specific purpose of testing, the specimens sent from Qingcheng County quickly came out with results.

Bacillus anthracis was detected in the bodies of seven hospitalized patients and the deceased Zhang Liguo.

The members of the construction team of the Qingcheng County Scenic Area were confirmed to be infected with anthrax.

Gu Yanan returned from the county hospital to summarize the preliminary investigation results of the epidemic and report the summary to Director Yang of the center, suggesting that the community where the construction team members are located be temporarily locked down to prevent the spread of the epidemic.

Compared with the previous level of response to the plague outbreak, the community blockade of the anthrax epidemic is only small-scale and small-scale, and it can be implemented by the relevant street communities.

Gu Yanan and others from the emergency response team are also further investigating the close contacts of the team members and the initial source of infection.

The movements of the team members have been investigated, but the movements of the deceased captain Zhang Liguo for three hours before his death are still under investigation.

The county police assisted in reviewing the surveillance records, but it took time to check them.

9:30 p.m. that day.

In addition to Lu Li, who was helping the county CDC section chief Li to sample the people in the closed community, Wang Xiaoxiao was following up on the situation of the patients in the county hospital, and the rest of the emergency team returned to the emergency office, waiting for the police to check the monitoring results, while also discussing the test reports given by the laboratory.

Mr. Zhou: "The environmental samples on the construction site are all negative, so where did these team members first get the anthrax bacillus? ”

Gao Fei: "Zhou Lao and I have checked the workers' dormitory and its surroundings, and we have found no traces of other wild animals except for ants and a few butterflies and dragonflies. ”

Xiao Chu: "Are there any villages around?" Villagers usually raise some domestic animals such as cattle and sheep. ”

Gao Fei: "There are no villages within 1 kilometer of the area, and there is no pasture there, so there are no surrounding villagers grazing cattle and sheep. The road chosen for the development of this scenic spot is really remote, and Zhou Lao and I didn't see anyone when we were sampling, but when we were about to leave, Xiao Chu's brother went. ”

"My brother is going to the epidemic site again?" Xiao Chu asked in surprise.

"This time, I didn't enter the warning belt, I only asked outside the warning belt, not to inquire about you, but to inquire about our sister Yanan. According to the time calculation, he should go to the county hospital to find you immediately. ”

"Oh." Xiao Chu seemed to remember something, "I still wonder how my brother knows that Sister Yanan and I are in the county hospital, it turns out that I found out from you." But unfortunately, two minutes before he arrived at the county hospital, Sister Yanan and I came back by car, and we received a call from my brother on the way. ”

"This fate ......" Zhou Lao was about to say something, when the phone suddenly rang.

Gu Yanan answered the phone, but it was his brother Gu Jiashu calling.

"Brother, are you calling this landline at this time, is there any case of infectious disease?"

"We just received a patient with a fever in our hospital this afternoon, who himself suspected of being infected with plague, and we tested him, and the result was that the plague was infected with Bacillus anthracis."

Another anthrax patient.

Could it be a close contact of the construction team members?

Or someone who has been in contact with the same original source of infection as the team members?

"Who is the patient? Where did you go before you got sick? What have you been exposed to? Have these basic questions been asked? ”

"I asked some, and the patient is the owner of an antique shop in the city, and he hasn't been out of the house for the past month, and his range of activities is between going to the store and the house."

Could it be another anthrax outbreak?

No, there must be some connection between the two outbreaks that occurred almost simultaneously.

Or has the source of infection spread?

Gu Yanan: "Did the patient have a pet with fur?" Or have you bought something new like fur? ”

"I didn't ask about this, but according to the patient, yesterday he came into contact with a customer who came to sell antiques, he suspected that the guest was a tomb robber, and went to the thousand-year-old tomb on Qingcheng Mountain, since the customer left, the owner of the antique shop had symptoms of cold and fever on the second morning, because of the previous plague epidemic, the boss suspected that he was infected with the plague by the customer, so he hurriedly came to the hospital for examination."

It is Qingcheng Mountain again, and it is related to the thousand-year-old tomb.

The members of the highway construction team were also in the thousand-year-old tomb scenic spot before, but the construction site is still a long distance away from the thousand-year-old tomb.

Gu Yanan was ready to ask the antique shop owner in person with a lot of questions.

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10:30 p.m.

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

The isolation ward where the owner of the antique shop is located.

Outside the ward, Gu Yanan asked the boss a few basic questions through the video phone system.

When did the onset begin? What are the first symptoms? What was the itinerary in the two days before the onset of the disease? Who have you come into contact with? Have you ever had a pet with fur? Have you ever bought clothing such as fur?

The antique shop owner answered one by one.

Like Gu Jiashu's previous report to Gu Yanan on the phone, the owner of the antique shop began to get ill this morning, the initial symptoms were cough, blood in the sputum, he has not left Lianhai City recently, and he usually lives at home and in the store, he has never had a pet, he has never touched a pet with fur, he has never bought clothes such as fur, and his family members have not bought them.

"How can you be sure that the person who went to your antique shop to sell artifacts is a tomb robber?" Gu Yanan asked.

"That man came to my shop after dark, and the things in his hands were a piece of gold and two pieces of silver, and the gold had special patterns on it, which I recognized as the kind of sacrificial gold that was specially cast in the Qing Dynasty to stuff the mouths of the dead, and the two palm-sized pieces of silver were very thin, and they were also used to stuff them under the feet of the dead."

"Based on what he brought with you, you're sure he's a tomb robber, and he's going to the ancient tomb of Qingcheng Mountain?"

"Of course, it's not just that, I smelled the piece of gold carefully, and there was a stench in it, which was the smell that would only come out after being soaked in the tomb all year round, and the famous ancient tomb near Qingcheng Mountain was the thousand-year-old tomb that was just discovered last year, if he didn't steal it from there, where else could he come from?

The news is not that there is plague in the thousand-year-old tomb, as long as people close to it will be infected, I saw that the person went to my store all the time coughing, I didn't take it seriously, the second morning I also started to have a fever and cough before I felt that something was wrong, so I quickly came to the hospital for a checkup, I didn't expect it to be not the plague, the doctor said that I had anthrax, no matter which one it was, it must have been transmitted to me by that person. ”