43. Sam virus
While Heng Liya is locked up in the basement, a large-scale acute respiratory infection breaks out in the real country.
At the beginning of the disease, the hospitals in the real country only thought that the first few patients were ordinary patients with fever and cold, and then, one after another, the patients died of treatment, and when the number of patients increased, the hospital began to be helpless, which attracted the attention of the real country government.
The CDC's warning sounded, and in order to isolate the source of infection, Zhenguo isolated all the patients, and a large area under Yanggong Mountain became a hard-hit area, and people were prohibited from entering and leaving.
At the same time, a team of experts formed by the Institute of Biology began to urgently carry out research on the epidemic virus.
After an intense period of research and discussion, the laboratory of the Institute of Biology characterized the origin of the disaster as severe acute respiratory syndrome, a new type of coronavirus, also known as the sharm virus.
The common symptoms of Sham virus infection are fever, headache, muscle aches, respiratory failure, the incubation period of the virus is 1~16 days, and the common 3~5 days will turn from latent to obvious, it has an acute onset, strong contagiousness, and fever is the first symptom.
The source of the virus has been found, and the virus has been determined, but the experts in Zhenguo have seen this new type of coronavirus for the first time, and they have not yet found effective antiviral drugs that can treat it, so they can only propose to temporarily use the existing antibacterial drugs in the hospital to delay the patient's condition before the new drugs are developed.
Seeing that the number of deaths caused by the virus is increasing day by day, as the president of Zhenguo, Wang Shouren is naturally disappointed that the Institute of Biology cannot research new drugs in time......
Because, without effective drug treatment, the lives of more than 100,000 people in a large area under Yanggong Mountain are in danger. Moreover, if these hundreds of thousands of people cannot be treated and controlled, the panic caused will spread, and the virus will continue to spread, and the crisis will involve the whole country, which is truly an unimaginable catastrophe.
Wang Shouren was so worried that he couldn't sleep, and every day anxiously awaited the results — he had already issued an order that Director Chen and the head of the hospital in charge of the patient area should come to his office every day to report on the spread of the disease and the progress of drug development.
It's a new day, and the tall and burly president still has his usual round face, frowning, and a serious expression.
When he saw Director Chen coming in, he asked, "How is the progress of the development of new drugs in your laboratory?" ”
Director Chen also frowned, and replied: "It's difficult, we can't do anything about this new virus, and we have exhausted all methods...... This sharm virus is so powerful that there is no new drug to cure it for the time being...... Mainly, it is so resistant that all our current antimicrobial drugs do not work against it. In my opinion, this Sam virus is a disaster that our real country cannot avoid, and we have done our best......"
Upon hearing this, the president became angry: "Can we only wait for death?!" You reported to me like this, how did you become the director of the institute? If you can't do it again, I'll remove you from your post and let someone who has the ability to be the director! ”
At this time, General Jing Zhiqiang walked into the office, and he had come to report to the president about the recent provocation of the small neighboring country of Oman to the borders of the real country.
Seeing that the president was angry with the samvirus, he thought about it and carefully proposed to the president: "Your Excellency, there is actually a god man, and you have forgotten her. Maybe she'll be able to get the Sam virus. ”
"Who?" The president and Director Chen asked almost at the same time.
General Jing replied, "Professor Heng Liya." ”
"Professor Heng......" The president thought for a moment, then turned his head and asked Director Chen, "Why didn't she participate in this research on the Sam virus?" ”
Director Chen bowed his head and didn't dare to look at the president, and replied hesitantly: "Yes, you, you...... ...... who wants me to lock her up."
"Did I say I was going to keep her in confinement? You're! The president scolded, "You immediately inform all the experts in the institute and the heads of the major hospitals, and in the afternoon, I will personally come to your institute to listen to your opinions." Director Chen, you must come up with a plan for the research of new drugs, and you must develop effective new drugs within one week, and you must not allow the Sam virus to continue to spread in our country. If you can't do it, don't be your director. Also, for the afternoon meeting, Professor Heng must be present. ”
Director Chen nodded in agreement on the surface, but he was angry in his heart: [Hmph, it's impossible for me to develop a new drug in a week...... Who on Earth can do it? You just have to change how many new directors you have, and you can't research new drugs either. It will take at least a year and a half to research a new drug for the Sam virus, and by that time everyone in the area around Yanggong Street will probably be dead. 】
Thinking about this, he felt that his strength had come to an end.
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In the afternoon, the meeting was held in the conference room of the Institute of Biology, chaired by President Wang Shouren, and gathered more than 300 famous doctors, presidents and virus research experts from major hospitals in the real country, and filled all the seats in the conference room of the institute, and temporarily added several rows of chairs.
All the participants had calm expressions, and Director Chen sat on the seat by the rostrum, with a sad face.
The president was the first to speak: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have summoned you here today to hear your report, the Sam virus has been raging in our country for half a month, and we still have not found a way to restrain it. So far, we have claimed 127 lives of the SAM virus, and all of us here still have not come up with an effective treatment, and if the virus is allowed to develop, I am afraid that the virus will continue to spread in our country, endangering the lives of our people. Today, I ask you not only to report, but also to propose effective treatments for infectious diseases caused by the Sam virus. ”
The director of the National Hospital was the first to speak: "In order to stop the spread of the Sam virus, we have taken a number of measures to control the source of infection. 1. Isolate and treat patients, and clinically diagnosed cases and suspected cases should be isolated for observation and treatment according to respiratory infectious diseases; 2. Isolate and observe close contacts, and designate designated places for isolation and observation of medical observation cases and close contacts. 3. The hospital has set up a fever clinic and a special channel for Sam virus. These measures have played a positive role in preventing the further spread of the SAM virus. ”
Then, a well-known physician from the National Hospital said: "I would like to report on our work some time ago, before we developed a specific drug for SAM virus, we adopted four treatment methods for patients: general treatment, oxygen therapy, glucocorticoids, and antimicrobial drugs. Among them, the use of glucocorticoids is mainly for severe poisoning symptoms, high fever that persists for 3 days, or the area of lung shadow that expands by more than 50% within 48 hours. The application of antimicrobial drugs is to prevent and treat bacterial infections, and macrolides, fluoroquinolones, lactams, tetracyclines, etc. are used clinically. Since there is no definite effective antiviral treatment, our hospital has tried to try the existing antiviral drugs to treat patients, but the effect is not good, because the virus comes suddenly, spreads rapidly, and the infectious population continues to expand, we have tried our best...... We are desperate for the research department to develop effective antiviral drugs to stop this plague as soon as possible. ”
It was the turn of the experts of the institute to speak, and they all bowed their heads and remained silent.
Professor Heng Liya was sitting in the last row, flipping through a large pile of materials on the research on the Sam virus that Director Chen had asked the experts to give to her an hour before the meeting, when she suddenly heard the president ask her to speak by name:
"Professor Heng, what tricks do you have to prevent the spread of the Sam virus?"
Subsequently, more than 300 pairs of eyes in the venue looked at Heng Liya in unison.
Professor Heng put aside the information in her hand and said confidently: "This Sam virus is artificially created like the Jindian virus that I have studied, and I do have a way to ensure that I can come up with an effective antiviral prescription against the Sam virus." After a week of the introduction of this antiviral drug, all patients with SAM virus in Zhenguo will be completely cured and will not recur. ”