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The staff of various departments looked nervous and busy, several doctors who had just come from the hospital and wore white coats and the person in charge of the Ministry of Health were arguing fiercely, and professors and doctors from Jiangdong Medical University were analyzing the information in their hands with solemn faces.

It's a mess like a wet market.

"Secretary Li is here."

A handsome young man in a suit and leather shoes walked into the conference room, and the white coats sitting around the conference table stood up.

Secretary Li nodded, helped his gold-rimmed glasses, and said, "Secretary Jin went to the provincial party committee for a research meeting yesterday and hasn't returned to the city yet, and the mayor will be there soon." What is the situation, and will our comrades from the Ministry of Health and the hospital and relevant staff be able to stabilize the situation? ”

"This is no ordinary contagious virus." The white-haired director of the Yuanjiang First Hospital shook his head, his face was heavy, "It is likely to be a mutant flu, similar to bird flu in symptoms, but it can be transmitted from person to person through the air, and the infection rate and mortality rate are unprecedentedly high." Now the major hospitals are flooding with a large number of patients, and the situation is critical. ”

"Airborne infection, human-to-human transmission?" The thick and majestic voice was Mayor Liu Huo, who strode into the conference room surrounded by several black suits, "Have you counted the data?" What is the infection rate? What is the mortality rate? Do you have an emergency plan? ”

Airborne infections sound scary, but Liu knows that this is a medical misconception, and the power of airborne infections is often exaggerated.

It is true that airborne transmission is an efficient and rapid way to spread the virus, but the virus is very fragile, and when exposed to the air with its simple structure, it is easy to lose its activity due to low resistance to ultraviolet rays, oxidizing substances, etc. In medical terms, "airborne transmission" mostly refers to droplet transmission, in which the pathogen exists in the mucus on the surface of the mucosa of the respiratory tract or in the fragments of ciliated epithelial cells, and when the patient exhales, sneezes, howls, or snores, a large number of mucus droplets containing the pathogen are sprayed from the nasopharynx, suspended in the air and then enter the body of the infected person.

In other words, this type of transmission can only cause a large number of infections in a confined and crowded environment, and it is difficult to threaten others by crossing a distance of several meters in an open area.

Therefore, Liu Hui is more concerned about the fatality rate and infection rate.

The director of the first hospital had a bitter face and replied: "The infection rate is at least 50 percent, and the mortality rate is ...... One hundred percent. ”

"One hundred percent?" Liu Huo's thick eyebrows were twisted, "Eight or nine hours have passed since the first death of the patient, and there is no effective treatment?" So did you find the source of the disease? Have you figured out all the channels of infection for your patients? It's just airborne infection, and it has nothing to do with water, food, etc.? ”

"These are not clear, but one thing is certain, this H7N11-like influenza virus is a non-existent influenza virus named according to the Ministry of Health's nomenclature rules, and this H7N11-like virus has a strong irreversible destructive effect on the human body, and is extremely infectious and survivable." Liang Helin, the chief physician of the First Hospital, handed over a large stack of reports and said.

"Hundreds of patients have died one after another. Serum is being developed, but no effective antibodies have been found. As for the source of the disease...... There are so many patients that I can't think in a conventional way. Liang and Lin paused, gritted their teeth and said with great determination, "The cause of the mutation is not yet known, but now many citizens of Yuanjiang have fallen into a state of panic, and many people may choose to flee Yuanjiang, if any of them are virus carriers...... I think that if a carrier of the virus leaves Yuanjiang and goes to another city, it is likely that the virus will be carried to other cities, so I would like to ask you—"

"Blockade the Far River!"

Suddenly, there was silence in the conference room, and a pin drop could be heard.

Yuanjiang is not a small town, this typical Jiangnan town has become a quasi-first-tier city in China after decades of rapid construction after the full opening of the country, and is known as the "second provincial capital" in Jiangdong Province.

A rash blockade of such a large city would cause huge economic losses to the country and its people, as well as all sorts of adverse effects, consequences that no chief physician - or even a mayor could easily bear.

But......

Such a highly infectious, such a desperately deadly virus, can be transmitted from person to person!

What does it mean that patients who have already begun to die will be sick for less than a day? If the high flow of people in modern society continues, more than one million citizens in Yuanjiang may be infected in a few days! What's even more terrifying is ...... Once the various groups of people who took Yuanjiang as a transit or went out or inflowed into Yuanjiang brought the virus beyond Yuanjiang, to Shanghai and to Beijing......

Liu Hui clenched his fists, the seriousness of the matter was beyond his imagination, and he asked again: "There is no special medicine?" No cure? ”

"So far, no effective treatment has been found, and the development of specific drugs has been ...... It may take a while. ”

It may take a while, how long is this time? A week? One month? Add to that the fact that the drug is successfully produced and put into use in large quantities, how much time does it take in between? If the flu spreads across the country with a powerful contagious spread, how many people will lose their lives in the time it takes to develop and put the drug into use?

If special measures are not taken, the disease will be spread on a large scale and cause a large epidemic, so the death toll is likely to be astronomical!

Liu Huo took a deep breath and gave an order slowly but firmly: "Develop serum as soon as possible, find effective treatment, forcibly isolate all confirmed patients and patients with suspected symptoms, and send a telegram to the Propaganda Department to release flu news as appropriate so that people with colds can pay attention and rush to the hospital for examination." Comrades in the medical department, I need you to put together a research report as quickly as possible. I will call the Department of Health and the Provincial Military Region to inform them of the situation here, and ask them to submit an urgent application to the higher level together with the Yuanjiangyuan City Government -- blockade of Yuanjiang! ”

Everyone was stunned and looked at Liu Huan.

If Yuanjiang, a large city in the hinterland of central China, is blocked, no matter what the outcome of the final treatment of the epidemic is, Liu Hui, as the person directly responsible, will bear great pressure, and may even be used by political opponents as a stain on the attack.

Liu Hui was able to give such a decisive order, and his courage was not small.

A young man standing beside Liu Hui squinted his eyes and hesitated slightly, he was Liu Huo's nephew: **** Zhou. He is also the main member of Liu Harmonic's think tank, and he is the second-in-command of the Municipal Security Department.

The Municipal Security Department is mainly responsible for the security tasks of the city leaders when they live and carry out activities in the urban area, as well as the security tasks of the perimeter security of visiting important foreign guests.

To be able to stand in such an important position, **** boat relies on more than just relationships.

"Is it possible for an infected patient to develop antibodies on their own? If there is an antibody carrier in Yuanjiang City, effective serum should be easy to develop. **** Zhou raised a simple but critical question with a clear idea.

"It's theoretically possible." This time it was the president of the Second People's Hospital who responded, and the president of the Second People's Hospital nodded, and sighed, "But in reality, this probability is not large, and there may not be one in tens of thousands of people." Moreover, patients who go to the hospital are generally seriously ill and do not have the possibility of self-production of antibodies, and patients who produce antibodies by themselves will naturally recover, and are likely to treat their previous cold as a common cold, and will not come to the hospital again, so how can we find it? ”

"Check the medical records." Zhou said, "Those who come to the hospital to see a doctor have a registration list, pull out all the colds and check them one by one, and those who have similar symptoms and have not gone to any hospital for examination and treatment after the 24-hour incubation period are either dead or may have produced antibodies on their own." ”

"This ...... The feasibility should not be high. The other party shook his head, "There is too much work, too many uncertainties, and the most difficult thing is that we don't have the ability to quickly confirm whether the target carries effective antibodies, so everyone has to spend a long time checking and confirming." And it's very likely that the antibody-producing patients have never been to the hospital at all! Relying only on registration records, looking for a needle in a haystack from millions of people in Yuanjiang is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack. ”

"So go ahead and narrow down the possibilities in other ways, like, in terms of your expertise, what age groups are most likely to produce antibodies?" Zhou asked.

"People between the ages of 16 and 40 have strong resistance, and the cells and tissues in the body are vigorous, so they are more likely to produce antibodies."

"Find!" "Immediately set up a special professional team to conduct research to find out effective screening methods, as long as someone produces antibodies on their own, no matter how difficult it is, they must find out!" The lives of millions of people in Yuanjiang are entrusted to us! ”

Liu Harmony did not feel displeased with the **** boat's overstepping, aside from the identity of the other party's nephew, Liu Harmony was originally a leader who used talent rather than nepotism, and sometimes had to rely on the flexible brains and fighting spirit of these young people.

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In the small student apartment, Yang Xiaoqian, who lives in a snail's nest, still has no idea about this unprecedented epidemic, and he is discussing with Yu Qian "seriously" how to save mankind.