The road from Africa to Europe

Chapter 142 Quarantine

The patient's condition is getting worse.

Perhaps the virus spread faster.

The human body's immune system is a bit overwhelmed at the moment.

I'm afraid that Ling Xiao's eyes will not fluctuate in the near future.

After knowing that it was this virus, she began to quickly search her memory.

It is said that after some patients died, the doctor would dissect the corpse and find that some organs had died long ago.

Now many cells in the patient's body are probably attacked by viruses and have been transformed into viruses.

There was a little emotion in his eyes now and then, but more of that dullness.

I'm afraid that this patient will soon enter the vomiting stage of vomiting blood.

Then the seven orifices bleed, and life goes by like this.

In the end, it is impossible to save the patient's life.

All rescue measures are useless.

But Ling Xiao asked Dr. Mengbei to fetch the hanging bottle.

As a doctor at this point, you can't give up easily.

Even if the patient is seriously ill, he may be dying soon.

But for that ray of hope, we have to work hard to save a handful of patients.

The injection bottle is to supplement the patient's water first, and then supplement certain electrolytes.

Meng Bei and Mi Lu didn't say anything, and helped Ling Xiao start the rescue together.

It is their responsibility to rescue patients, even if they may be infected with the virus.

After drawing enough blood from the patient, Ling Xiao took the container to the door of the emergency room.

The people in the hospital were ready to wait at the door at this moment. Both of them were fully armed and wore isolation suits with eleven pieces of protective equipment.

One person lifts up the container immediately after receiving it, and the other person sterilizes the outer wall of the container.

High-concentration chemicals are used, and all parts of the container must be sprayed.

This is to ensure that no virus remains on the outer wall of the container to ensure the safety of the public.

Containers full of blood were forcibly sterilized and placed in biosafety boxes.

During the placement process, the container and human hands should not touch the outer edge of the box.

To maximize the guarantee that this level [-] virus will not mix into the safety box.

After the container is put in, several ice boxes are put in.

This is to maintain a certain constant low temperature.

The temperature of the safety box should be kept between 4° and 8°.

The virus will remain infective for 4 weeks at around 5°.

If you want to preserve the virus for a longer period of time, the temperature must reach -70°, and the activity of the virus will be maintained for a long time.

The reason for this is that the Ebola virus is also composed of proteins. If the temperature is -70°, the virus will be blocked directly. If it is heated, then the protein will start to mutate after 60° and will gradually lose its activity.

It can be said that to a certain extent, this virus is more afraid of rising temperatures than cold, and even lower temperatures, which instead allows the Ebola virus to remain infectious for a longer period of time.

The reason why the hospital puts ice boxes is because what the researchers need is to keep the infectious virus.

After the box is sealed, the entire perimeter of the box will be carefully disinfected.

The sterilized boxes will then be placed in a third, larger box.

After sealing, the outermost box is also disinfected.

It will be sent to DSD by a special person.

Species are identified by dedicated researchers.

This is a complete process of transporting viruses.

This process can be described in one word: as if facing a big enemy.

After sending the safety box, the isolation area is also prepared.

And patients will be sent to special wards, equipped with many cameras.

The hospital evacuated the staff, and Mombe helped the patient to a special ward.

After they left the emergency room lobby, heavily armed personnel entered to carry out detoxification.

In order to prevent the possibility of infecting other people who come to the hospital with the virus, if you don't do this, it's not a hospital.

It is the point of virus infection. In case of emergency, not only chemicals, but also ultraviolet lamps are used to ensure the safety of others to the greatest extent.

During the whole process, many patients were watching from a distance, and when the patients entered halfway, others took over.

Ling Xiao, Meng Bei, Mi Lu, and the patient's family members entered the isolation stage.

In order to ensure each other's safety, the four of them shared a room with each other.

It is a single confinement room, basically no outsiders can be seen.

Ling Xiao can take it easy, since he has been very busy since passing through.

I have been busy studying, busy with internships, and busy with work.

Since it is quarantined, it is right to be on vacation.

I'm afraid that the people in the hospital are all busy.

As Ling Xiao expected, the hospital entered a state of emergency.

The hospital naturally knew that the patient could not be removed, so they had to reschedule.

Ordinary patients cannot be received in this place, because they may be infected.

At this moment, a staff member of the hospital said that she was going to get married and would not come to work, and she was suspected of running away.

The hospital doesn't care about this kind of behavior, and can't force others to come to work.

In addition to this patient, there are also a steady stream of suspected patients.

The way out of that village was blocked by a group of armed men.

At first, the villagers thought it was illegal armed forces.

It almost exploded, and I didn't know what happened until later.

Those who went out for medical treatment in the village were found to have Ebola in the hospital.

Some people suddenly realized it, and then remembered that all the killings had happened.

In fact, many people in the village fell ill, and those who could be rescued were taken away.

People who have died and buried corpses should also be dug out for further processing to ensure that there is no source of infection.

After all, in addition to humans and primates, the host of Ebola virus has also been found to have Ebola virus in other animals.

Who knows if the body of the deceased was buried in the ground and decomposed, whether scavengers ate it, and whether it would infect other animals after eating it.

Up to now, the natural host of Ebola virus has not been completely determined, and it is possible to directly cut off all possible sources.

At the beginning of the operation, the people in the village were not very willing to follow the above regulations: dig up the dead body.

Because it has been a habit in the village for many years that the dead should return to nature and be buried in the ground.

But the corpses that have been buried now must be dug up for special treatment.

This situation made the villagers somewhat unacceptable to this action.

Want to resist, but the other party is carrying a gun.

In fact, the people in the village knew that the situation was not very good.

They have to accept the reality, after all, a bad thing may be violent.

Even if the villagers are in good physical condition, cold weapons and hot weapons simply cannot compete.

They finally backed down and let the bodies of the dead be taken away, watching as those fully equipped began to sterilize the carpet.

And those who were sent to blockade were all very nervous. After all, Ebola was too severe, and they were afraid that they might be infected.

A safety line was specially drawn, and people in the village could only move within that range. If they exceeded that range, they might get a fatal attack.

Ling Xiao, who was in isolation, was a little bit agitated when he heard the news. Sometimes the so-called customs make more people sick. This is the case with Ebola virus, and the same with Ruan virus.

Now she is relatively free as a quarantined person, and her mobile phone is handed over because she cannot communicate with the outside world, but fortunately, she has more free time, so naturally she starts to watch more things when she has time.

Ling Xiao saw the discovery process of the soft virus in the books sent for entertainment, and was very interested in it, because the lethal rate of the prions virus is higher than that of the Ebola virus, and the infection is [-]% dead.

And this highly lethal virus was also discovered in the last world. The so-called identification is thanks to a scientist named Gaidushek.

In the 50 years of the [-]th century, he knew that the Frey tribe in Papua New Guinea, Oceania had a high incidence of genetic disease.

As a scientist with no small curiosity, in the spirit of research, he went there.

The reason why he went was that he didn't think it was a genetic disease, but more like an infectious disease.

To prove this, he flew to that tribe on purpose.

Start researching what the hell is going on.

When he got there, he made a rigorous investigation.

Conduct medical examinations for tribesmen.

Just like this a little bit of research.

But in fact, he didn't find the problem.

Let him find his research into a dead end.

He did not find the fungi, bacteria and other microorganisms that caused the source of infection.

After knowing that both of these were impossible, she began to suspect that it was a trick caused by the virus.

However, after checking and checking, he did not find out what kind of virus it was, which showed that his direction was wrong.

His thinking might be wrong, but at this point he still didn't give up. He searched for the reason in the tribe, but he couldn't find it.

Then he started to change direction. He wondered if it was an environmental problem?For example, water quality, soil, or any unknown radioactive sources nearby.

He started to investigate again. After a long investigation, he found that the direction of the investigation was still wrong, and it was not the so-called environmental problem at all.

At this time, even he himself wondered if it was really a genetic disease?But in the end he still didn't give up.

He was still not quite sure that it was a genetic disease, and felt that there should be some negligence.

Just stay in that tribe and continue to observe the situation, and live and eat with the people of the tribe.

After a long time like this, the people in the tribe finally accepted him more.

I feel that this is a very good person, and he can be regarded as an outsider.

And he had the opportunity to get closer to the people of the tribe.

There are many things in the tribe.

I no longer hide it from him, and ask him to join.

Finally one day, he finally got the answer to the question.

A respected elder in the tribe died of that disease.

After the onset of this disease, the whole body trembles, and gradually the whole person begins to lose the ability to move.

After the illness is severe, the patient begins to forget the previous memories, and will forget all the memories within about half a year.

During the attack period, the patient would laugh wildly from time to time, and finally died tragically like this.

And once the disease begins to attack, no one escapes from the disease.

The elder of the tribe did not escape in the end.

Even though he tried to help him.

Finally died.

Because they are regarded as tribal people.

Important ceremonies gradually recognized his participation.

He was invited to participate in the solemn mourning ceremony after the death of the elder.

After the ceremony began, his eyes were wide open, and he experienced an unprecedented shock.

EMMMMM, fortunately, he is a daring person, so he insisted on bearing the impact he received.

If a timid person sees that scene, they will probably go crazy on the spot, and the most important part of this ceremony is cannibalism.

At the last moment, the skull of the deceased was opened, the brain of the deceased was taken out, and after being cut into slices, everyone present was given a slice.

At that time, he was quite shocked, but he also knew that he had to take over. From the perspective of the tribe, he regarded him as one of his own. If he dared not, his fate would be unknown.

As an educated person, he naturally didn't eat that piece of brain, but brought it back to the laboratory to do various researches.

First of all, he used microscopes and other means to explore the structure of the brain, as well as other research work on the brain

It's just that after using many methods to probe that piece of brain, he found that he still found nothing.

No bugs, no germs or anything like that, it just seemed normal.

After studying for so long, he felt that there must be something wrong with his brain.

With an open mind, he decided to extract the protein particles in the brain.

Put all this stuff into the brains of chimpanzees.

Turns out chimpanzees.

Even this disease happened.

It also loses mobility and memory just like humans.

This discovery made him very excited. Sure enough, his previous idea was correct.

To prove it, he injected protease-treated protein particles into the brains of chimpanzees.

The chimpanzee was safe and sound. After some thinking, he realized something.

That's why people in the Frey Tribe always get sick.

Then his previous research direction was wrong.

The most helpless thing is the customs and habits of the Ferre tribe.

It is because they have always believed that eating the flesh of their loved ones can purify the soul.

What they never thought of was that this custom caused more of their clansmen to die.

Due to scientific and technological reasons, his research did not directly discover this virus that came and went without a trace.

It was not until the late 80s that Prusiner, a biologist at AMR, finally discovered a substance that did not know how to define it, that is, prions.

In fact, prions are not viruses in the true sense, because they have no nucleic acid but only proteins, but they are a self-replicating and infectious agent.

With more research, people were surprised to find that the human immune system is unaware of the prions, and it is difficult to quarantine them by themselves.

After identifying that substance, scientists have conducted deeper research on it and made even more astonishing discoveries.

This substance is extremely resistant, and it cannot be destroyed by ultraviolet light, high temperature, biochemical reagents, etc.

Even gastric acid and protease in the human body cannot destroy this material structure.

It takes three Baidu to kill the prions.

Seeing this, the corners of Ling Xiao's mouth twisted slightly.

But she continued to read.

I want to see what the characteristics of this virus are.

What will happen to humans and animals after they are infected with prions?

With this condition, they, their brains become spongy.

No matter how you look at it, the characteristics of this disease are very similar to those of a cow suffering from mad cow disease, Ling Xiao thought of this.

The reason why mad cow disease occurs is that the sick cows are fed the bones of cows that are ground into powder.

Ling Xiao wondered in his heart that this was the retribution of cannibalism?As with cows, so with humans.

At least the brains of both have become sponge-like, and they look very similar.

Indeed, there is such a possibility!Maybe they're all prions.

Then look down and you will find that it really is.

This virus is contagious between humans and animals.

She was kept in isolation, watching more information with relish.

Fortunately, prions usually do not break out on a large scale, and people usually eat food with prions.

Or when transplanting organs, the original donor was a patient with prions, or it was a contaminated device.

If you don't have any of the above, you will basically not be infected with the prions.

With the help of science, human beings have solved very mysterious, but actually regular things.

Once again, one thing is confirmed: the more you know, the more you will discover ignorance.

For example, Darwin's theory of evolution prevails.

There are still different voices.

For example, did humans really evolve completely?

Or with the help of a mysterious existence, accept some kind of improvement.

Then survive on the earth, there are countless vacancies in the middle.

To be honest, seeing this, Ling Xiao is also confused, how did human beings come here?

It is still an unknown mystery. According to the theory of evolution, human beings evolved little by little.

But because the human body has too many secrets, it has not been cracked yet.

Moreover, the changes of some creatures on the earth are also contrary to the theory of evolution.

For example, after a certain creature has evolved a circle.

It became the same again.

What the hell is going on here?

It can be said that there are too many mysteries in many places,

Human beings must continue to develop science, which is for the survival of human beings themselves.

Maybe one day humans will discover more secrets.

(End of this chapter)