Plague Doctor

Multiple isolation wards are connected to the office area in the middle from both sides. At this time, there are only three people in the huge office area: Wang Ruoxiang, Lin Shizhe, and Chen Xiang.

They sat in front of rows of monitor screens and watched the situation in one of the wards. Patient Zhou Kewen was frantically eating the 50 grams of abnormal soil.

"Uh, uh..." A weird swallowing sound came from the computer speaker. The patient was still devouring the food, only faster than the last time. It was like some kind of zombie eating carrion, which would definitely destroy the upper gastrointestinal tract that already had wounds. It hurts to be stuffed again.

After eating all the dirt, Zhou Kewen shouted anxiously: "More, more, this little is not enough, is there more? I want more!"

"Classmate Zhou, calm down." Wang Ruoxiang only consoled her and did not respond to the patient's request.

In previous experiments, patients developed food poisoning reactions in less than a minute after eating ordinary soil, so it will soon be known whether there is a difference in abnormal soil.

Tick-tick-tick, the second hand of the clock on the wall was spinning. One minute passed in the blink of an eye, then two minutes, then three minutes.

After a full five minutes passed, Zhou Kewen showed no signs of food poisoning, his vital signs were stable, and he was conscious, but he kept asking for more soil.

"There is a difference, the abnormal soil is accepted by the sick body." Lin Shizhe said, this is exactly what happened before him.

"The patient's blood pressure is actually more stable." Chen Xiang said another situation. Judging from various indicators, the patient seemed to have taken some magic medicine.

Wang Ruoxiang thought about what this meant, but the soil that the sick body was calling was just ordinary soil in terms of composition...

"Classmate Zhou, now we will give you some bread, banana and water. If you eat it, we will give you 10 grams of soil."

She continued with the next step of the experiment. Since the patient did not cooperate, she had to use this method.

Soon, another remote-controlled unmanned vehicle drove into the ward, bringing 100 grams of bread, 50 grams of bananas and 200 ml of water.

Because of the temptation of the soil reward, Zhou Kewen also ate the food in a hurry. Five minutes later, he had no adverse reactions. Wang Ruoxiang gave the patient another 10 grams of abnormal soil as planned, and everything seemed normal after the patient ate it.

If you are just addicted to eating this kind of soil, it is consistent with the diagnosis of pica, but... are there any exotic locusts in the patient?

It may take some time to check and confirm. It took four days from Arbor Day to Principal Cui's self-destruction.

Because of the emergency situation, the medical team planned to conduct the first gastroscopy five hours after the patient took the stool, and then re-examine every five hours. Before that, the three of them continued the experiment on the next patient according to the original plan. This patient, Sun Cuiting, had never eaten ordinary soil and was a 37-year-old female teacher.

Soon, all six patients participating in the experiment finished eating and had no adverse effects.

Wang Ruoxiang reported the experimental situation to the command center, and she learned that the patients who did not receive foreign soil were becoming more and more agitated.

If the bugs don't appear in the test patient's body, and if the good condition can be maintained, then there is a temporary treatment...

Early in the morning, the time entered March 18. At 2:34, less than four hours after taking soil, the first subject suddenly developed abdominal pain.

Zhou Kewen's face was blue and white with pain, and he was covered in cold sweat. He described it to the medical team as "colic pain, as if something was moving."

Wang Ruoxiang and the other three people took action immediately, and things seemed to be slipping into the worst direction.

They don't know the principle, and this is not what they should be struggling with now, whether to have a gastroscopy first.

Normally, gastroscopy needs to be performed on an empty stomach, because food and digestive residues will affect the field of vision, making it difficult for the doctor to see mucosal tissue clearly, and it is easy for the subject to feel nauseated and vomited during the examination. But now, they are not looking for detailed lesions, but looking for parasites in the stomach.

After entering the ward, Wang Ruoxiang went up and injected a larger dose of diazepam into Zhou Kewen, and then sprayed anesthetic into his throat to anesthetize him.

"Doctor, I don't want to die..." Zhou Kewen cried out, the young man's face wrinkled up with fear and pain, and tears came out.

Lin Shizhe and Chen Xiang were both middle-aged men and had the strength to hold the patient down, but Zhou Kewen still had sense and cooperated in the left-lying position with his knees bent.

"I know, we will try our best and do a gastroscopy first." Wang Ruoxiang comforted the patient and explained some matters during the examination, and then she gathered her tired energy and prepared to start. She had already learned and tried how to do a gastroscopy before.

The painless gastroscope instrument is located next to the hospital bed. She holds the front end of the scope with her right hand and slowly puts the gastroscope into the patient's mouth to the base of the tongue.

At this time, patients often feel nauseated, as Zhou Kewen did, so they make swallowing movements, and the upper mouth of the esophagus suddenly appears open.

It was at this opening moment that Wang Ruoxiang inserted the gastroscope into the esophagus along the opening.

"Ugh..." Zhou Kewen sobbed uncomfortably.

The slender and flexible gastric tube is inserted into the patient's stomach bit by bit, and the image captured by the camera is displayed on the screen of the gastroscopy instrument in real time.

Wang Ruoxiang looked at the screen while exploring, her heroic eyebrows gradually frowning.

On the screen, some fresh and tender red meat is squirming. That is the esophagus. After the gastroscope enters the stomach, the food that has not been fully digested is exposed. Some adhere to the gastric mucosa, and some tumble as the patient swallows, turning brown and black. The soil was mixed with red blood and the mushy liquid of digestion, making it look like a mess.

On the gastric mucosa and in the pasty liquid, there are traces of translucent white threads

The thing, completely ignoring the stomach acid, twisted and squirmed repeatedly.

It looked a lot like "Anisakis", a parasite that can parasitize marine fish and humans. Fish were infected first, and humans became infected by eating seafood.

Gastric acid cannot kill them, but they have strong penetration ability and can drill through the stomach wall, causing gastric perforation of the patient, and even entering the muscles. At present, there is no specific medicine that can treat this evil insect. The only way to remove the insect body is with fiber gastroscopy, or through laparotomy.

People infected with Anisakis become ill within 1-5 days. In the acute phase, clinical manifestations include nausea, vomiting, severe abdominal pain and other gastrointestinal symptoms...

If Zhou Kewen went to a general hospital at this time and a group of uninformed medical staff examined him, he would most likely be diagnosed as infected with Anisakis.

But Lin Shizhe had participated in the dissection of Principal Cui as a nurse, so he could naturally tell that it was not Anisakis, but anisolocusts.

Wang Ruoxiang is more familiar with this. There are such parasites in every organ and structure in Principal Cui's body. They are not yet mature and are the most larval form visible.

There are worms, there are worms in the test patients.

When Principal Cui blew himself up that day, Zhou Kewen was standing at the back of the playground. From a distance, it was impossible to inhale the splashed parasites.

"What is that..." Wang Ruoxiang suddenly frowned and was surprised to see a piece of gastric mucosa becoming translucent and quickly decomposing into a pile of worm threads. The original gastric mucosa became burnt brown, as if it had been burned by an electrocoagulation knife, and no blood leaked out.

Those newly decomposed worm threads sway, squirm, and are submerged in the mushy liquid, and will enter the intestines, turning the intestines into a sea of ​​parasites.

"How could it be?" Lin Shizhe was confused. He also saw this weird and strange sight. Human tissue was transformed into parasites.

Even if Chen Xiang is a member of the Operations Department, he knows how bad the situation is. If the gastric mucosa can be transformed, what about the muscles? What about skin?

Seeing their expressions change drastically, Zhou Kewen suddenly became even more uncomfortable and whimpered nervously, obviously asking about his situation.

Wang Ruoxiang was speechless, unable to say comforting words such as "You're okay, you're okay" against her will.

Thinking of Principal Cui's body being full of parasites, even in the bones, her heart was chilling and her ears were buzzing...

Eggs are not needed, and these infected patients don't need eggs.

It seems...it seems that any part of the patient's body can be transformed into this kind of bug, and eventually the whole person becomes a puddle of bugs.

Pathogens are at a higher level.

The patient does not need to eat insect eggs. The patient itself is already an insect egg. The purpose of eating abnormal soil is to obtain nutrients for growth...

Locust disease is indeed locust disease.

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