In fact, by the time Karin fell, there were already five or six passengers in the hotel, all of them children or old and weak, which caused a flurry in the hotel, but it was only on a small scale and did not attract much attention. It wasn't until the next day, when seven or eight adults collapsed with a high fever that it caught the attention of the person in charge of the hotel.

The phenomenon of more than a dozen people suffering from high fever and coma one after another will definitely cause concern for Hong Kong people who have experienced many influenza outbreaks.

The patients were rushed to Sai Ying Pun Hospital one after another, and the ambulances that came from time to time attracted a lot of attention.

"What happened?"

"I don't know."

"This is the fifth ambulance, could it be that this hotel has food poisoning?"

"It's really possible if you say that."

Lin Liangbo, the doctor sitting in the ambulance, didn't know the gossip of passers-by, he was wearing a mask at this time, carefully examining the comatose patient lying in the ambulance, and the two nurses next to him were also wearing masks, showing a hint of nervousness in their eyes.

In fact, when they first received the news, the doctors didn't react, just a patient with an ordinary fever, but then, in just two hours, there were more than a dozen people with the same condition who fell into a coma one after another, and then thought that last night was also in this hotel, five or six old people and children fell ill, and people who were not doctors felt that something was wrong, not to mention these doctors with professional knowledge.

The hospital first checked seven or eight patients who had been sent in first, ruled out the possibility of collective food poisoning, and immediately realized that this was a contagious disease, and it was also a very transmissible infectious disease incident. In the flu events that broke out last year or this year, most of them were one or several people, and the distribution range was not so concentrated, and it was almost never seen that more than a dozen people were infected in a short period of time at a time. Even the [***] in 03 has slowly developed from one person to a dozen and dozens of people in a dozen days.

So knowing that this is likely to be an infectious disease, can the doctors and nurses on board not be nervous, there are too many examples to prove that if you are not careful, the most likely to be infected are the doctors and nurses who are close to the patient, who wants to try the taste of illness? No one will like it.

"Hurry up, hurry up ......"

The ambulance was parked at the gate of the hospital, and the doctors and nurses who had been waiting for a long time were "fully armed" to protect themselves, covering themselves tightly, and at the same time not going through the main entrance, but taking the emergency elevator from the first basement floor, which is used to transport medical waste, and ordinary people will not go there. Because of this, it is possible to isolate the patient from contact with the outside world.

"How?" The attending doctor asked as he put on his mask and a green surgical gown.

"The patient is very weak and urgent measures must be taken immediately." Lin Liangbo paused and said, "Be careful, you know?" ”

"Got it." Nodding, the attending doctor walked into the operating room.

Lin Liangbo breathed a sigh of relief, but looking at the hospital that had begun to be chaotic, he couldn't really relax no matter what. He stared at the sky outside the window, but he didn't know that during the day, all kinds of invisible radio waves were constantly transmitting and communicating in the sky.

Since its establishment on 1 June 2004, the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong has been responsible for strengthening the prevention and control of epidemic diseases, including investigating cases of epidemic diseases, monitoring the disease situation, and exchanging infection information with other countries.

Since nine o'clock this morning, the staff on duty in the duty room have been notified by Xiyingpan Hospital, claiming that more than a dozen suspected cases of influenza infectious disease have occurred, and the locations are all concentrated in one hotel. This immediately attracted the attention of the officers on duty, who did not dare to slack off, and immediately notified Dr. Zhang Zhujun, a consultant at the protection center.

"Contagion?" Hearing the voice on the phone, Zhang Zhujun, who had something to leave, frowned and said, "I'll be back soon." ”

He was not far from the protection center, so he immediately reversed direction and drove the car towards the location he had come from.

It didn't take long for him to drive back to the protection center.

As soon as the staff on duty saw him back, they hurriedly reported the details to him, Zhang Zhujun naturally knew the administrative director of Xiyingpan Hospital, and after asking about the situation of the staff on duty, he immediately called him.

"Director Wang, is that? It's me, Zhang Zhujun, can you tell me more about the situation over there? ”

"Thirteen cases, all of them were high fever, severe headaches, severe pain all over the body, red and swollen throats, pus on the tonsils, and three elderly people vomited incessantly, were confused, their hands and tongues were shaking all the time, and several people also had pneumonia and difficulty breathing. Well, wait a minute, I'll take a call. ”

In the end, the administrative director over there suddenly paused, presumably another call came in.

After a while, the administrative director's voice sounded again, and his tone revealed helplessness: "I received a call just now, and three more people sent it over, and it was still that hotel, and the symptoms were basically similar." ”

"Not good!"

Zhang Zhujun suddenly realized that something was wrong, said sorry, hung up the phone, and his face was extremely heavy.

He had almost overlooked one thing just now, and it wasn't until the executive director of Sai Ying Pun said that he had to immediately lock down that hotel in order to prevent the spread of the flu, which was the responsibility of the Centre for Health Protection!

There was no longer much time to wait, and while calling the staff of the center to give orders, I called the director of the center, Dr. Tsang, and immediately notified the superiors of the Department of Health.

Before the people here were ready to go, the duty room received another call from Tuen Mun Hospital, reporting seven suspected cases of influenza illness, and soon after, received a report from Tung Wah Hospital.

Half a day has passed, and so many things have happened, even Dr. Zeng, the director and person in charge of the center, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly put down all other work and personally started the arrangement of things.

But until this time, close to two o'clock in the afternoon, the matter was still only within a small scale, and the relevant departments were notified by phone, but it still did not attract enough attention!

When Zhang Zhujun arrived at the hotel where the incident occurred, the hotel had been closed and all the guests were being examined by a doctor.

Fortunately, Zhang Zhujun only saw a few tabloid reporters, and did not see any big media reporters appear, and it is estimated that now the reporters' minds are attracted by the Chang'e-3 moon landing, and they are arguing with various media, and they have no time to pay attention to these small news.

"Dr. Zhang, are you here?" Walking towards him was his assistant, Xie Zheng, a very capable young man.

"How's it going?"

Zhang Zhujun asked as he walked towards the parked car next to him.

"It's not very good, we found four more sick patients." Xie Ru's expression was solemn.

"Four more?"

Zhang Zhujun lowered his brows, this situation shows that the flu, or an unknown infectious disease, has at least spread in this hotel. And judging from the information we have learned so far, it cannot be ruled out that there are other virus carriers in other parts of Hong Kong.

The situation is dangerous!

"Go on......"

"From the results of our inquiry, these patients are all passengers on the plane that crashed early yesterday morning......"

"Wait."

Zhang Zhujun stopped, turned his head to look at Xie Yi: "You said they were all passengers on the same plane?" ”

"Yes."

Xie Ru frowned: "And I also found a strange point, the patients who are currently ill in this hotel are all passengers in economy class." ”

"You mean ......"

"Yes, there must be a virus carrier in there." Xie just affirmed.

"It was from this person that this unknown infectious disease was transmitted from the economy class."

Zhang Zhujun nodded: "Where did this airliner fly from?" ”

"The take-off location is San Francisco."

Xie replied: "I have already contacted that side, and I have not found any similar patients." (To be continued.) )