Plague Doctor

After the gastroscopy, Zhou Kewen felt a strong sense of vomiting, but in the end he did not vomit or vomit blood.

His condition was not optimistic, but he didn't know it clearly. The medical team didn't tell him. Wang Ruoxiang just gave him some analgesic and anti-inflammatory drugs. The patient's abdominal pain was relieved, but his mental state became worse and worse, and he kept asking for more soil. .

The three people exited the isolation ward. After Zhou Kewen, the second patient Sun Cuiting also had an accident, suffering from the same abdominal pain symptoms.

They also performed a gastroscopy on Sun Cuiting and found the translucent white thread-like locusts.

In the end, all six patients who participated in the experiment were like this. It made no difference whether they had eaten ordinary soil, vomited blood, or taken diazepam.

When exposed to live patients with exotic locusts in their bodies, even though they wear protective clothing, the possibility of infection among the three people is greatly increased.

Wang Ruoxiang also had a flash of fear in her heart, but she didn't focus much on this aspect. If she was infected, she should hurry up and complete the work while she was still in the incubation period and her mind was still clear. She compiled some of her thoughts since she dissected Principal Cui, and established a three-way connection with the medical team and the command center.

Before entering the communication room, she had to go through a set of inspection procedures, including being stamped by the old printing staff. After all, no one knew what her current condition was.

There were only a few commanders who had direct conversations with her, including Si Kouxian on the medical team side and Yao Shinian on the command center side.

After hearing the bad news, everyone's expressions became more solemn.

There are a thousand patients who have not eaten abnormal soil, and all of them can be turned into a locust reservoir at any time, just by eating some abnormal soil.

Now experiments have proven that if their pica needs cannot be met, otherwise they will just feed parasites, and it is foreseeable that the patients will eventually die in great pain.

Even if they were insane and had their white matter damaged, it would still be better than that...

And Wang Ruoxiang has a few ideas.

"Do Principal Cui's patients and Director Wang and Zhou Kewen's patients have the same pathology?"

Wang Ruoxiang asked, for example, hepatitis B patients have major three yangs and minor three yangs. However, the pathology of parasitic diseases is usually the same, unless Principal Cui is the first intermediate host and the teachers and students are the second intermediate host. But that's not the case right now.

Principal Cui has at least three forms of this parasite in his body: larvae, semi-adults, and adults.

Larvae were found in the bodies of Principal Cui, Zhou Kewen and others, and the larvae of Zhou Kewen and others were decomposed from their own tissues.

It's all a process of larvae developing into adults in their bodies. Theoretically, the pathology should be consistent.

"What if not?"

Wang Ruoxiang said seriously.

"Their pathologies have different manifestations. It took almost four days for Principal Cui to self-destruct, but there are still many intact parts of his gastric mucosa, and no tissue damage or repair has been seen; but Zhou Kewen and Sun Cuiting took less than four hours to self-destruct. The gastric mucosa is almost completely gone. The speed of lesions in this area is different.

In addition, in terms of spirit, Principal Cui showed rationality and fanaticism even before he blew himself up; Zhou Kewen and others were in pain and close to madness.

Female locusts can excrete more than 100 eggs at a time. I was wondering, could the first patients, such as Principal Cui and Li Yuhao, be a type of female locust? A special kind of carrier? And the second batch of patients are insect eggs? An acute infection? "

Wang Ruoxiang said that these were both her medical inferences and her gnosis.

Under normal circumstances, the human body has certain characteristics after being infected with parasites.

"Carriers" refer to those who do not show obvious clinical symptoms and signs after infection, but can spread the pathogen.

Parasites rarely cause acute infection. Usually, after some clinical symptoms appear, no treatment or incomplete treatment is performed and gradually enters the chronic persistent infection stage. In this case, there will be tissue damage and repair at the infected site, such as schistosomiasis. There is both the formation of liver egg granuloma and the process of liver fibrosis.

With Zhou Kewen and his friends' current speed, such an infection range, and the whole body turning into locusts, they are in the category of abnormal things.

There is also a characteristic called "larvae migrans", which means that certain larvae cannot develop into adults after invading an unsuitable host, but they can survive and move within the host for a long time, causing local and systemic lesions. At present, because no semi-adult worms or adult worms have appeared in the bodies of Zhou Kewen and others, another possibility cannot be ruled out: although they are both human beings, they are unsuitable hosts, which is why they cause these different acute symptoms.

"If Principal Cui's more than 300 people also had acute symptoms, they would have gone to the hospital, right? But after a few days, even their family members couldn't see anything unusual. They looked like carriers of worms. Director Wang, Zhou Kewen and the others, You can tell at a glance that something is wrong.”

"Do you feel that the second batch of patients has no ability to spread the disease?" Si Kouxian asked.

"I don't know, I just feel that they are different." Wang Ruoxiang is not sure, "I have another idea in terms of transmission channels."

Transmitted through water, through food, through soil, through air (droplets), through arthropods, and directly through humans.

These are common transmission routes for human parasites.

Now they cannot rule out that the second batch of patients were infected due to inhaling air or droplets containing eggs in the playground.

But the scope of the spread was too precise, and everyone on the playground was infected regardless of distance. However, the janitor uncle, cafeteria aunt and others who were also in the school at that time even heard Principal Cui’s speech, but they did not see the self-destruction scene. I haven't been on the playground, and I haven't gotten sick so far.

Therefore, the medical team relatively ruled out this possibility from the beginning, and listed witnessing a self-destruction as one of the possible conditions for infection.

And now, Wang Ruoxiang witnessed the patient's gastric mucosa strangely transforming into locusts, and the gastroscopy also recorded the image.

What is the transmission route? Mental impact?

Where do pathogens go after they invade the human body?

It is not physically visible, nor is it a neurological disease caused by a specific group of people being mentally affected by rituals like heteroderma.

The entire human body is infected and is contagious.

In some previous animal experiments, mice ate worm eggs from abnormal soil and parasites from Principal Cui's body. So far, they have not become ill. The worm eggs and parasites came out with their defecation. The same goes for other experimental animals. This is a human parasitic disease for which only the human body seems to be a suitable host.

"Our previous hypothesis was that the new patient witnessed a self-destruction and was mentally affected, leading to physical pathology."

Wang Ruoxiang frowned and said, "So this can explain why only the teachers and students on the playground were infected. But can we be sure? At the moment when Principal Cui blew himself up, did 1006 teachers and students really witness it? Over there at the Investigation Department That’s not what the survey found.”

Yao Shinian and Si Kouxian both knew what she was talking about. Although the teachers and students all said that the scene was terrible, careful questioning revealed that many people were not actually looking in the direction of Principal Cui at that time. Some looked away, and some Being blocked, they didn't witness that scene anyway.

But they are also sick. This is the flaw in the "witnessed self-destruction" hypothesis.

"What if there really is a range? It's just that this range happens to cover the 1,006 people on the playground." Wang Ruoxiang said, "Whether they were listening to Principal Cui's speech or whether they saw Principal Cui's self-destruction, it was Fear or calmness, as long as you are within this range, you will be infected."

As several people listened, they vaguely seemed to have thought of something...

"What if the locust disease spreads through radiation?" Wang Ruoxiang added, "A kind of physical radiation is produced the moment Principal Cui's head explodes. The energy spreads outward in the form of electromagnetic waves or particles until it attenuates to nothing. This The process is that range.”

"After the human body within the range is exposed to this kind of alien locust radiation, it will cause genetic mutations just like being exposed to nuclear radiation, but it is the same mutation. For example, some genetic information will be fixedly changed, or a new piece of information will be implanted. It causes the human body to turn into a big insect egg, which will turn into a locust if it only needs suitable nutrition."

Her hypothesis surprised Yao Shinian and the others, and it was as if her words awakened people from their dreams.

It's not eating insect eggs, air, droplets, contact, dark erosion, mental influence... it's radiation.

So the old seal is useless, this is biological level, it is genes.

If that's the case... it also means that no matter how strong your will or belief is, you can't resist it. It's not your spirit, it's your genes.

As for such an abnormal disease, "the pathogen invades human genes through some kind of radiation", Tianji Bureau has never faced it, and human civilization has never faced it.

Even if it is not a strange disease, humans are still just laymen when it comes to treating genetic diseases.

"I have another idea." Wang Ruoxiang sighed deeply before saying it. This idea made herself, Yao Shinian and others shudder.

"What if that wasteland is also an abnormal area? There is radiation from the abnormal locusts there? So all the people who were there on Arbor Day will be infected?"

In the past forty hours from Principal Cui's self-destruction to now, many Tianji personnel have been in and out of that wasteland, including the Tongxinzhe team.

Although each of them was wearing nuclear radiation protective clothing, they did not stay there for long.

But the peacock once had the idea of ​​​​eating that kind of alien locust.

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