Yuntai County Hospital is more than 20 miles away from Zhaojia Village, and if you call an ambulance, it will take a long time to come and go.

Cousin Zhao Yongcai went to the yard to start the tricycle, Zhao Yongfa carried his wife on his back, supported his brother and daughter-in-law with one hand, and got on the tricycle together.

Zhao Yongcai drove a tricycle in front, and Zhao Yongfa took care of the two sick people in the back.

As soon as the tricycle left the door, the cold wind blew, and Zhao Yongcai, who was driving, felt chills all over.

At first, he thought it was because of the cold, but after only two minutes of driving, as soon as the tricycle left the village, he began to feel a terrible headache, his vision was blurry, and his hands were shaking......

He felt that something was wrong, and was just about to step on the brakes, but his hands were weak, and suddenly he let go, and the tricycle turned into the ditch on the side of the road.

The tricycle overturned, there was not much water in the ditch, and a thin layer of ice froze, and 4 people fell into the ditch.

Some villagers were dumping garbage at the entrance of the village, and when they saw someone overturning, they hurriedly ran forward and found that it was Zhao Yongfa and Zhao Yongcai.

The villagers were about to come forward to help, but suddenly found that the four people who fell into the ditch were all blue-faced, and two of them were foaming at the mouth and were unconscious.

Blue face, foaming at the mouth...... It can't be a contagion, right?

The villagers who were about to come forward to help stopped, and instead of reaching out to pull the wounded, they hurriedly took out their mobile phones and dialed 120.

"Hey, 120? There was a car accident in our Zhaojia Village, and 4 people fell into the ditch and were not lightly injured, and several of them were blue and foaming at the mouth, whether it was an infectious disease. ”

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"I'm not sure if it's an infectious disease, didn't the news say recently that there was a new virus circulating in the next province H? I wonder if a new virus has arrived? ”

"Has the injured person been to Province H recently? Or have you been in contact with someone who has returned from province H? ”

"It doesn't seem to be, but I'm not sure, Zhao Yongfa's son is in college in Province H."

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"Okay, hurry up."

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Half an hour later, the ambulance from the county hospital rushed to the entrance of Zhaojia Village.

Two people got out of the ambulance, both wearing white protective suits, blue masks, and goggles, and the protection was very tight.

Seeing this, the onlookers subconsciously took two steps back.

They have seen the outfits of the first responders in front of them on TV, only when there is an outbreak of infectious diseases, the medical staff will be dressed like this, could it be that Zhao Yongfa's family is really an infectious disease?

First responders put masks over the faces of the four people and carried them onto the ambulance on stretchers.

The ambulance roared away, leaving a crowd of villagers talking at the entrance of the village.

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Yuntai County People's Hospital.

In the emergency room, four patients sent from Zhaojia Village are receiving emergency treatment.

Li Xiaoju's symptoms are the most severe.

In addition to high fever, blood pressure is severely reduced, and severe toxic shock reactions occur.

After half an hour of resuscitation, the symptoms did not improve, and there was multi-organ failure, and finally the circulatory system failed and died.

The remaining three people were also in emergency rescue, and the doctor followed the general procedure for the treatment of toxic shock, leaving the specimen first and then giving antibiotic treatment.

The nurse in the emergency room had just come to work in the hospital and had seen this for the first time, and one of the four patients had already died in the emergency rescue, and the remaining three had very severe symptoms.

The little nurse thought of the news she had seen recently, and whispered beside the emergency doctor, "These four people can't be infected with the new virus, right?" ”

"No, the symptoms caused by the new virus in H province are mainly pneumonia, these 4 people have obvious symptoms of meningitis, do you see what the cerebrospinal fluid I just extracted from the patient is like?"

The little nurse recalled that the cerebrospinal fluid that the doctor had just taken out of the patient was cloudy, "a little muddy." ”

"It's an obvious bacterial infection, not a virus, so don't worry, it's not a new virus from Province H."

Bacterial infection? What bacteria are so powerful? It is possible to put down 4 people at the same time.

The little nurse had the impression that the most pathogenic bacterial infectious diseases were plague and anthrax.

Textbooks have said that the plague killed countless people back then, and anthrax also killed many people, and these two bacteria are very contagious.

Among them, the plague will make people bruise all over the body, and Li Xiaoju, who just died in front of him, is all blue, could it be the plague?

The little nurse subconsciously tightened the mask on her face, "Could it be the plague?" ”

The emergency physician also thought it was likely that he was looking for a rat bite wound on the patient's body.

The body of the deceased Li Xiaoju was not removed, and it was still placed in the ward of the emergency room, and the doctor examined Li Xiaoju's hands and feet, and found that there was a wound on her right finger, which was slender, not like it was bitten by a mouse, but more like it was scratched by some sharp weapon.

After examining the other three patients who were being treated, it was found that Li Xiaohua also had a wound on the palm of her hand, which was similar to the wound on Li Xiaoju's finger, the wound was slender, not a mouse bite.

The other two, Zhao Yongfa and Zhao Yongcai, did not have any wounds on their bodies.

In the case of plague, it is possible that 4 people have been exposed to food contaminated with rats carrying Yersinia pestis.

Four people came from the countryside and there is a high possibility of exposure to wild mice.

The emergency doctor instructed the nurse, "The hospital has just arrived with a batch of N95 medical protective masks, go get a few and give one to each of the doctors and nurses in the department." ”

The little nurse thought to herself, the doctor actually wanted to use N95 medical protective masks, it seems that the illness of these four people is not simple.

"Dr. Li, is it really the plague?"

"I'm not sure, first protect against the plague according to the standards, and we'll wait for the results of the laboratory department."

The little nurse hurriedly went to get the N95 medical protective mask, and the emergency physician turned around and went to the doctor's office, found the number of the local county CDC from the phone book on the desk, and dialed the phone, "Hey, is the county CDC?" Our county hospital has seen 4 patients with suspected plague, one of whom has died. ”

"The plague? Are there any laboratory results and epidemiological information? "The person who answered the phone was Section Chief Zhang of the Yuntai County Disease Control and Prevention Department.

"Not yet, it's just that the clinical signs are very similar."

"Okay, the county CDC will send someone over to check immediately."

After hanging up the phone, Section Chief Zhang immediately summoned other people in the department to carry the sampling box, put on protective clothing, and go to the county people's hospital not far from the county disease control.

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In the county hospital, Zhao Yongfa and three people were placed in an isolation ward.

The patient is in a coma and unable to answer questions.

Therefore, Section Chief Zhang of the county disease control and the attending physician went to the laboratory department of the county hospital first.

Samples of the three patients and the deceased Li Xiaoju are being tested in the laboratory department.

Although the conditions of the laboratory department of the county hospital are not as good as those of the big hospitals, they can do basic examinations, and the first thing to do for the patient's cloudy cerebrospinal fluid is to observe it under the microscope.

After the cerebrospinal fluid smear is stained, the examiner in the laboratory department is using a microscope to observe.

Under the microscope's field of view, you can see strings of small purple spheres arranged in a chain.