Chapter 289: Microsoft is Really Soft
"Professor Jacks, the city of Reston just sent a batch of cynomolgus monkeys."
Lynch, a Hispanic biological researcher, is reporting to his superiors on the biological samples recently received by the laboratory, as usual.
"Okay, let's send them to the isolation room first."
The white scientist named Jakes nodded slightly, and made the corresponding arrangements as usual.
DeCrete Biological Laboratory is the only research laboratory with the highest level of biosafety protection level 4 under the jurisdiction of DOD in the United States.
It is home to microorganisms such as Ebola, smallpox, anthrax and plague.
Jakes has been working in the lab for 16 years and is familiar with the processes.
However, just as he was about to sign the memo, Lynch said with some hesitation: "Professor, this batch of monkeys has begun to show some symptoms, and they need to plan for extraction in advance. ”
It turned out that the cynomolgus monkeys were imported from the Philippines and were originally planned to be used for medical research.
But soon after arriving at a primate quarantine center in the United States, they began to develop anorexia, fever, and lack of energy.
Four weeks later, nearly a third of the monkeys died.
Scientists dissected the dead monkeys and found that they were all necrotic on the inside.
At first, scientists thought that the condition was caused by monkey hemorrhagic fever.
The pathologists then sent samples of the remaining surviving tissue to the DeCreet laboratory outside Maryland for in-depth analysis.
After listening to Lynch's story.
Professor Jax was stunned, and after a while, he said slowly: "Then send them to the Level 3 laboratory, you don't need to wait for me, you can observe them first in order to obtain some preliminary data." ”
Laboratories at this level are completely sealed, the chambers are under negative pressure, and the safety is high enough to handle most situations.
After arranging this, Professor Jakes left in a hurry.
He is traveling to Washington today for an important meeting.
According to some old friends, DOD personnel will also be in attendance.
The implication of this is self-evident.
Immediately after Professor Jakes left, Lynch and another scientist, Thomas Gessbert, analyzed the samples that had been sent.
During the course of the study, both of them had sniffed the cell culture flasks containing the samples up close.
However.
A few days later.
Thomas identified under an electron microscope that the sample was not an ordinary monkey fever at all, but a special variant of a pathogen.
It can even be transmitted through direct contact and droplets.
They were shocked by the result.
It is clear that the specimen has reached Level 4 hazard and should be placed in a Level 4 laboratory with the highest level of biocontainment.
This means that both Lynch and Thomas may have been infected.
The two reported the discovery to their superiors.
But they all tacitly did not mention that they had been exposed to the sample.
Meanwhile, the quarantine center in charge of the monkeys in the city of Reston has nearly 200 people who have been exposed to sick monkeys, six of whom have tested red.
However, they did not have any symptoms.
After digging deeper, scientists found that they were infected with a subtype that was supposed to be a subtype that was lethal to apes but not in humans.
This is undoubtedly a relatively fortunate find.
But to be on the safe side, the biolab decided to cull the rest of the monkeys.
Soon, they organized a squad to carry out the culling mission.
Everyone, dressed in protective clothing and equipped with aspirators.
In addition to this, they also need to check every room where the monkeys are and make sure that each monkey is given tranquilizers and euthanasia medications.
At the same time, make sure that the protective suit is not scratched by monkeys.
However, in the middle of their execution, the unexpected appeared.
There was a room where a monkey escaped from the cage.
The room where the monkey was located was about nine meters long and fifteen meters wide, and it took several cullers several hours not to catch it, but to let it escape through a narrow ventilation window.....
In order to avoid causing unnecessary panic, the news was kept strictly confidential.
After that, they completely sanitized the rest of the isolation room.
Some scientists believe that the sample is aimed at ape-like primates and will not cause harm to humans, much to the secret relief of many.
Even after a while, people almost forgot about it.
However, what they don't know is.
After this cynomolgus monkey escaped from the laboratory, the microorganisms in its body mutated again......
Meanwhile.
With the impetus of many parties, the war in Afghanistan finally broke out.
The event immediately attracted the attention of the whole world.
After all, 911 took a heavy toll on the American economy.
What's more, it's a provocation at all.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the financial markets, where the Dow Jones and Nasdaq are languishing and even trending down again.
To do so, they must retaliate against some potentially restless people, including consolidating dominance in the dollar currency and oil and energy sectors.....
The market's reward for the prophet is the most generous.
As a normal person, Chen Weidong naturally cannot forget some major events that have happened around the world.
It seems reasonable to take advantage of this unique advantage and earn huge profits.
The subsequent free donation made people all over the country fall into a sea of joy.
However, only Chen Jie was heartbroken.
He didn't object to Chen Weidong donating money, but it was too much.
It's a loser!
Young! Too young!
If you don't know that firewood and rice are expensive, you don't know the importance of money at all.
$200 billion is enough for him to retire directly.
You can even be the richest man in the world.
Life is like this, what more can a husband ask for.
For this reason, he could not even eat for several days in a row.
Only Li Yun and others sincerely admired.
Most people like to stand on the moral high ground and ask others to give selflessly, but when it is their turn, they ask for tolerance.
Empathize with yourself and ask yourself if they had so much money, they would never be able to write it so lightly.
Many business owners are becoming more and more greedy for making money, wishing that he was the only one who was rich, and everyone else was poor.
You must know that the market value of Infinity in the Xiangjiang stock market is only more than 700 billion Hong Kong dollars.
Thankfully, the shareholding structure of their company is very simple, and control is in the hands of only a few people.
Otherwise, the board of directors of any company will resolutely oppose this "stupid" act of scattering money.
"Okay, okay, isn't it just money, there will be opportunities to earn in the future." Chen Weidong saw Chen Jie lying on the sofa sighing, he couldn't stand it anymore, and hoped that he could be normal.
"What you said is light, you can make so much money this time, it all depends on this emergency, I don't believe that I will encounter this kind of opportunity again in the future." Chen Jie still looked half-dead, and he had already reviewed the process of this plan several times in his heart.
Although he didn't understand why Ah Wei seemed to know about this in advance, he also knew that this was a very small probability event that could not be encountered.
I will definitely make money in the future, but it will definitely not be so easy.
Chen Weidong didn't explain too much when he saw the appearance of the third uncle, and he would slowly understand it in the future.
It is sinful to come with a huge amount of capital.
Rather than being coveted by some people in your hands, it is better to send it directly to everyone.
In this case, even if someone wants to touch them in the future, they will have some scruples.
Just as they were ready to discuss where to go next.
The TV in the living room suddenly started to play a piece of news.
Microsoft Corporation has released the latest generation of desktop operating system "Windows XP".
It's so good that many computer experts are full of praise for it, even calling it "an epoch-making, milestone product." ”
This indicates that Microsoft is still in an absolute monopoly hegemony in the field of operating systems.
Simply anyone can shake it.
Chen Weidong looked at it for a while, then suddenly turned around and asked Chen Jie who was lying on the sofa: "What do you think of their software, compared to our company?" ”
Chen Jie glanced at the host who was talking about the TV set, although he couldn't understand what she was talking about, but when he saw the rough software interface displayed above, his face couldn't help twitching, and two words came out of his mouth.
"Garbage."