Golden Fishing Village

Chapter 1253 1260. Poisonous Clam (15)

After receiving the notice, Ao Muyang hurried to the dock market.

The hairy clam is a kind of shellfish that is very common in red ocean seafood. Because there is a layer of short hairs on the outside of its shell, it is also called hairy clam. It can be steamed or grilled. It is easy to eat and delicious.

But it is indeed a dangerous seafood. A large number of bacteria and hepatitis A virus can be adsorbed on the gills of clams. The hepatitis A virus can be concentrated 29 times and allowed to survive in the body for 3 months.

In this way, when people eat hairy clams, these viruses can infect the digestive system through the oral mucosa and act on the liver, eventually causing hepatitis A.

Since that year, the country’s inspection and quarantine of hairy cockles has been much stricter, and at least there has been no large-scale outbreak of this virus.

The discovery of hepatitis A virus in the market this time was a big deal. Ao Muyang knew very well that once the virus broke out, the entire market would have to be blocked and disinfected.

He originally wanted to take the ferry to the pier, but it turned out that the ferry schedule was fixed and the speed was slower. At this time, he was very anxious, so he simply asked Heilong to drive, and they took the mountain road to the city.

Just when they were about to drive off, they received another call from Yang Shuyong. Yang Shuyong came to use the car, so Ao Muyang simply called Fu Guozheng and Long Deshui. The two villages also had stalls in the dock market, so they probably got them together. Go deal with it.

Fu Guozheng hurried over, but Long Deshui came a little late, causing Yang Shuyong to complain: "Old Long, what's the matter with you? Everyone is in a hurry, why are you taking your time? Are you putting on makeup at home?"

Long Deshui was also full of resentment. He said: "I am just accompanying you to resolve this matter. Our village's market stall has not been open for the past two days. Besides, our village does not sell hairy clams. What does it have to do with me?"

Ao Muyang waved his hand and said: "Okay, everyone is here, stop talking nonsense, Heilong will drive."

Big G roared and drove quickly up the mountain road.

Long Deshui's cell phone rang on the way, and someone hurriedly said: "Hey, is this Long Deshui, the party secretary of Longwangzhuang? Hello, I am Guo Tieyong, the director of the Hongyang Wharf Market Management Office. Come to the market quickly. , the city leaders should comprehensively inspect the food safety of the seafood market..."

Long Deshui said: "Director Guo, I know what's going on. Hepatitis A virus was found in some clams, right? This has nothing to do with me. Our village..."

"It doesn't matter to you or not, I won't say any more. Come here quickly. All the stall managers have to come over. I'm telling you to hurry up and get here as quickly as possible." Director Guo interrupted him. He gave an order and then hung up the phone.

Yang Shuyong gloated: "Isn't it none of your business?"

Ao Muyang said: "Stop gloating about others' misfortunes, Brother Yong, things seem to be serious this time."

The dock market has been closed, the police have set up a cordon, and a sign has been hung next to it saying that the market is closed today.

Ao Muyang and his party rushed into the market gate, and a policeman asked: "Is he the person in charge of the stall?"

"Both."

"Then everyone go in."

The market was in a mess. All the shellfish were pushed to the front of the stalls. Shellfish were constantly being pulled out of the warehouse. Among them, there were piles of hairy cockles on the open ground. There were people in white coats taking samples and inspecting them.

Dai Zongxi, with a big belly, was standing in the middle of the market making arrangements. There were several middle-aged men with dignified faces beside him. They were the heads of the Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce and the Food Inspection and Quarantine Bureau.

Ao Muyang went to the stall and asked the person in charge, Ao Qianyu, "Uncle, what's the matter?"

Ao Qianyu said: "It was found that the hepatitis A virus was found in the hairy clams..."

Ao Muyang waved his hand and said, "I know this. I was asking how you found out about this?"

Ao Qianyu scratched his head and said, "I don't know very well either."

The owner of a stall opposite said: "I know about this. My brother-in-law's classmate's aunt works in an infectious disease hospital. Recently, the hospital has received several cases of jaundice patients. The symptoms were very acute, and then the hepatitis A virus was found during the investigation."

At this point, he clapped his hands vigorously and said, "Hey, hepatitis A patients are appearing in large numbers. Leaders are wise and powerful. They immediately discovered that there was something fishy inside, so they started to investigate, and finally found our market."

The laboratory departments of several hospitals sent working groups to examine the cockles. Dai Zongxi kept checking the results. After working for a while, he saw Ao Muyang and waved him over.

Ao Muyang asked: "Dai Ju, is the matter serious this time?"

Dai Zongxi said with a gloomy face: "The incident itself is not serious, and the number of people infected so far is not many. But now that the Internet is developed and there are too many self-media, I don't know why someone posted the matter online, and the common people are confused. People are in danger.”

After saying that, he asked Ao Muyang: "Do you sell hairy clams over there?"

Ao Muyang asked: "Are you sure it's a problem with the hairy cockle?"

Dai Zongxi said: "Yes, one of the patients is a doctor at an infectious disease hospital. Because of work needs, they have regular physical examinations. The last physical examination results were normal. This time he had a physical examination but hepatitis A virus was detected in his blood. According to After a series of medical speculations, he believed that he was infected with the virus within a week, so the source of infection was related to the clams he had eaten in his last porridge. Later, the infectious disease hospital received some more patients, and after examination, it was found that some of them were also infected with hepatitis A. I am infected with the virus, and I have had the experience of eating hairy clams recently.”

Ao Muyang said: "Wait, that's not right. I remember that the hepatitis A virus has a latent period when it enters the human body, right? Antibodies are produced in this week?"

Dai Zongxi said: "The examinations that the infectious disease hospital gives doctors are not only for antibodies, but also for some viral RNA, that is, directly checking the virus itself. This is expensive, but very necessary. Anyway, don't ask, this matter is a big deal! Damn, the sales volume of hairy clams is so high every day, if something goes wrong, it will be a big deal!"

Hairy clams are a very common seafood in Hongyang. They are delicious, cheap, tender and delicious, and rich in nutrition. They have medicinal value and can resolve phlegm, soften hard masses, disperse blood stasis, and eliminate accumulation. In traditional Chinese medicine, they are even used to treat gastric and duodenal ulcers.

He told Ao Muyang all this not for gossip, but because he had something to ask him: "You have a lot of people in the market, go and check for me and ask them if any stall has done anything unusual recently?"

The wharf market is an official market with strict management. Every merchant who comes in to do business must register, so there is no possibility of a market field army or seafood guerrillas. Since the razor clams were sold here, they must have been sold from a certain stall.

The market here is very large, with as many as four or five hundred seafood stalls, including dozens of stalls selling razor clams, so it is difficult to rely on official inspection and quarantine.

Ao Muyang went back and asked the fishermen in the village together with Yang Shuyong and others. Everyone was confused and thought about it for a while, and then a young man from Longtou Village said: "Could this matter be related to Wang Laoliu?"