Chapter 21: The Plague?

Early in the morning of June 6, the city hospital received a patient with a terrible appearance, with a large area of ulcers and pus in various parts of his body, a high fever that did not go away, and also accompanied by severe pneumonia symptoms.

"My son~!"

The family of the deceased was just trying to make trouble, and a second patient was brought in.

"Quick, send to the emergency room! Same symptoms as the patient just now!"

A patient who looked almost the same passed by them, with the same large ulceration and high fever, but with severe purulent tonsillitis that swelled both sides of the neck.

This was followed by a third, a fourth, and finally a total of eight patients who appeared to have the same symptoms.

"Alas, your family is also rotten piece by piece, and you still have a high fever?"

The mother of the deceased saw that so many patients in the same situation had suddenly arrived, and she could not help but feel a sense of sympathy for their families.

"yes, the one in your house too?"

"My son was brought in an hour ago to be rescued, but now he ...... It's gone now, woooooooo

The mother of the deceased couldn't help but feel sad as she spoke, and the more she cried, the more sad she became, and then she just sat on the ground and cried.

When the family members who rushed to hear about the situation of the first patient, they couldn't help but panic, and those who were weak in their hearts were directly taken out crying, and hurriedly went to the bank to withdraw money to give red envelopes to the doctor, and many of them directly asked for a transfer to the hospital.

At this time, when the deceased's mother sat on the ground, she pulled the muscles on her back, and felt that her back was painful and itchy, and a bag bulged up near her waist, and there was already a slight ulceration at the top, and she reached out and scratched it gently, and her nails had just been scraped from above, and the severe pain went straight to the Tianling Gai, and she shivered in pain, and her eyes were filled with tears!

"Lao Wang, look at what is behind me, why does it hurt so much?" she said, turning her back to her husband and lifting his clothes a little.

"Wait, I'm suddenly a little itchy. As he spoke, Lao Wang put his hand into his pants, and he didn't know if he had grabbed it to an indescribable position, but then he saw his body tremble.

"Oh, why does it hurt so much!"

Even the people on the side could see that his forehead was sweating, his face was flushed, and his body was tense, as if he was fighting the terrible pain with all his strength.

"What's wrong with you, Wang, don't scare me, Wang!" The woman always had some kind of strange intuition, she suddenly remembered that her son seemed to have had such a situation before going to bed last night, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that things were not good, and cold sweat broke out in her palms, and she pulled Lao Wang to find a doctor.

It was also a coincidence, perhaps providence, that they found the little dermatologist who had put the scales in the petri dish three days earlier, and he had just sent the deceased to the morgue.

"Doctor, doctor, come and show us both what the hell is going on?"

"Registered?"

The little doctor didn't know what was going on, and asked as usual.

"Ouch, human life is at stake, my son has this disease, we seem to have this disease too, if you don't hurry up and show us, then we ...... We ......"

As he spoke, the deceased's mother wiped her tears again, the little doctor has been here for a year, how has he seen this situation, and he also knows these two people, isn't it the family of the deceased who was suspected of skin disease just now, and just sent several patients with the same condition, thinking that this disease may be an infectious disease, he decided to make an exception and show them if it is the same disease.

The little doctor looked at the place where the two of them had scratched, this suppuration looked like there were many diseases, and it was difficult to distinguish them, so it was better to cut off a little skin tissue that they had scratched and put it under the microscope to see.

This frightened him almost pushed the microscope to the ground, which was too similar to the virus of the scales in his hand! He directly replaced the scale sample again, and compared it repeatedly, except that the size was almost identical!

Thinking of the terrible appearance of the deceased, he shuddered, and hurriedly rushed out of the door, I don't know how many things he bumped into along the way, and he didn't care that the director was in a meeting, so he dragged it out directly, and said as he walked, leaving only a room of surprised leaders.

Originally, the director was still full of fire, and he was in a meeting with the dean and other directors, but after listening to the little doctor, he glanced at the back of his hand and thought: If this situation is true, this contagion may cause a terrible plague!

With a hint of luck in his heart, he asked the little doctor to take some skin tissue from the deceased, and he wanted to finalize it.

After carefully comparing the three parts of the virus, the director of the dermatology department fell silent, lit a cigarette for himself with trembling hands, and before he took a puff, he remembered that it was in the hospital, and extinguished the cigarette again.

asked the little doctor to notify the dean, and he called the CDC directly, at this time, there is no bullshit such as overstepping the level of reflection, anyway, the dean will not blame him if he knows about it.

After describing the situation truthfully, he slumped in his chair and stared blankly at the ceiling.

It's beyond my power, I'm afraid I can't protect myself, and then I'll have to resign myself to fate!" he muttered to himself.

There was a painful and itchy feeling on the back of his hand, and when he lifted it up, he saw that as expected, there was already an obvious ulceration, which had the ability to spread through the air!

It is precisely because he is a doctor that he can understand the horror of this infectious disease, H7N9 influenza cases experience an average of thirteen days from the onset of illness to death, rabies from the onset of illness to death is generally no more than six days, the Black Death usually dies within forty-eight hours after the onset of the disease, and according to the description of the family of the deceased, the deceased began to show symptoms before going to bed at ten o'clock last night, and the time of death was eleven o'clock this morning, which lasted thirteen hours, faster than all previous infectious diseases!

That's why he felt a strong sense of powerlessness in his heart after he found out that he was also sick.

took out his mobile phone and looked at the cute daughter in the photo, he suddenly remembered that his daughter seemed to be scratching her hands all the time yesterday?

He stood up suddenly, the director is almost fifty years old, and he is very precious to this daughter, no! I must find a solution! I can have a problem, but my daughter is only five years old!

Experts from the CDC soon arrived at the hospital, and one of them even had rice on the corner of his mouth.

After a busy afternoon, with the full cooperation of the doctors of the city hospital, the experts finally had a basic understanding of this infectious disease:

The parvoid virus, contact infection, is highly contagious, fecundity, and does not show symptoms other than skin scales for the time being, and the human body will become resistant after treatment and will not be re-infected.

Super leukovirus, produced by mutation of parvitvirus, has the ability to spread in the air, loses its fecundity, but can promote parvoid mutation, lethality, in addition to causing skin ulceration also has the characteristics of influenza virus, the late stage of infection will cause complications in the terminal stage of influenza, so far all patients admitted to the city hospital, once there are multiple complications, without exception, all die.

To put it simply, if a person is not infected with the little white virus, there is not much danger of directly infecting a small amount of super white whites, but if a person is infected with the little white virus themselves, and then comes into contact with super white whites, all the small white viruses on the body will be quickly transformed by super white whites, and finally lead to large-scale ulcers and multiple complications.

However, there is also an expert who puts forward a different theory, he believes that the small white virus to super white is not a mutation, but a natural evolution, just like the tadpole finally sheds its tail and grows limbs, it is an inevitable evolution, a metamorphosis (biological noun, the meaning of changing the form), which is much more stable than the mutation with uncertain results, and the probability of success is much greater, and all infected citizens must be forced to take medicine as soon as possible.

However, this theory has not been shared by others and is considered alarmist.

Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief, the situation was not as serious as imagined, the little white virus has found a cure, it can be treated by taking antibiotics, although super white has not found a cure for the time being, but without the ability to reproduce, it will not cause a large-scale plague after all.

But it doesn't mean that it's okay, after all, there are too many people in this city who are now infected with the little white virus, and they are not afraid of 10,000 in case, and if one of them has this mutation again, there may be a lot of such cases around.

Therefore, the top priority now is to tell the citizens suffering from scales to take antibiotics through various media, and even take the way of delivering medicines for some low-income and extremely poor citizens.

At night, the whole city smells of vinegar-like disinfectant, and the evening news reports about antibiotics.

"Well, doctor, doctor! bring me a box!"

Li Siyu's mother just learned the news from the circle of friends, and immediately came to the nearest pharmacy, and heard someone shouting from a distance.

Oh my God! Is this still the big pharmacy I know? It's crowded, which supermarket is on sale, right?

"Excuse me, please let me go!"

The people in front didn't even look back, they squeezed forward desperately, their eyes were red, as if they wanted to choose someone to eat.

At this time, a person rushed up from behind, rushed forward directly, and instantly squeezed in most of it, and when Li's mother saw that this was a good opportunity, she clinged to the person and followed all the way along the small gap he left.

I don't know how long it took to squeeze, even if it was this sturdy reckless man in front of him, he couldn't squeeze half a meter away from the counter, so he had to wait for a little bit to rub forward, Mother Li took the time to look back, oh my God, the team was lined up outside the door!

"There's not much medicine! There's only one last box left, don't line up the people in the back, go buy it somewhere else!"

There was frightening news from the counter that the medicine was almost sold out!

The few at the door were indeed scattered, and they went to find other places to buy medicine, but these people in the store suddenly went crazy, everyone thought, there is still a box, I must get one of the boxes, otherwise the team will be in vain for half a day!

Mother Li was almost squeezed apart, looking at the counter close at hand, it seemed to be out of reach, and she had to turn to the reckless man who had been followed by her all along.

Fortunately, this reckless man looked a little difficult to mess with, but he was actually quite easy to speak, and after five minutes, Mother Li finally rushed out again with medicine under the leadership of the reckless man.

The moon is bright and the stars are sparse outside the store, except for the vehicles whistling by, there are few pedestrians, probably all buy medicine, Mother Li exhaled, feeling like a world away.

"Hehe, beauty, can you leave a WeChat?"

Unexpectedly, the reckless man actually opened his mouth to say such a thing!

"No, I'm sorry, I bought this medicine for my husband. ”

Mother Li said with a smile, and left quickly without looking back, leaving only the reckless man with a resentful face.

A plague is basically over before it has even begun, and the medical level of this world can be seen, so it seems that things have passed like this?