Plague Doctor

"Doctor, what the hell are those things... That's not normal, right, that's not normal..."

In this bright clinic, Kevin Greer is looking at an X-ray result picture displayed on the doctor's office computer screen. His parents, Sean and Helena, are also watching next to them, with expressions of concern. Confused. But the orthopedic surgeon Moen Jackson on the opposite side was also surprised.

This is the latest X-ray of Kevin Grier's right hand. The X-ray reveals the bones within the flesh.

A normal hand has 27 bones, including 8 carpal bones, 5 metacarpal bones, and 14 phalanges.

But in this X-ray on the computer screen, in addition to these normal bones, there are also bits and pieces of bone-like objects around them, where muscles, nerves, and muscles are supposed to be, which seem to be loose bodies... …

The number of these alien bones can't be counted at a glance. They are densely packed and seem to be connected together.

"Yes, this is not normal..." Morn Jackson looked at the X-ray and the patient's right hand. You can see the abnormalities there with the naked eye. The skin is black everywhere, but it is not a blood clot, but something like It's pigmentation. The patient could no longer move his hand freely and was in unbearable pain. He had already taken painkillers.

"You said that three days ago, you played a baseball game and you pitched with your right hand, and something didn't feel right at the time..." Morn Jackson said thoughtfully.

"Yeah." Kevin Greer couldn't figure out what that was in his hand, an inflammatory reaction?

"Dr. Jackson, my son is a very good pitcher..." Sean Greer said, "His professor said that he is qualified to play professional games. If he works harder, he has a great chance." Helena nodded repeatedly as she listened. ,"How is this going?"

"This situation is very rare, but..." Moen Jackson was feeling chilled because of a warning issued by fbm to hospitals and private clinics around the country a few days ago, "Kevin, besides your right hand, what else do you have like Is that wrong?”

"Yes..." Kevin Greer said this, and he suddenly felt a little inexplicable. "My back, my two calves... my neck, I..." He touched these as he spoke. The more I move like this, the more my body parts feel like they are being pulled everywhere. "I feel sore and tired all over my body, but it doesn't hurt..."

He hurriedly explained, as if to draw a clear line between his right hand and the rest of his body, "My right hand hurts when I move it, and it gets stuck when I move it a lot. It's different in other places. It's just soreness and tiredness. I think it's because I haven't slept in the past few days." Sore and tired due to a bad situation..."

Both Sean and Helena noticed their son's nervousness, and they couldn't help but become nervous.

If it were before, a few years ago, or a month ago, they wouldn't be so nervous.

Because at that time, "supernatural powers" had not yet appeared like this recently. They lived on an ignorant island. Even if there was a storm outside the island, they did not know it. They thought that the island was the world, so they lived peacefully.

But now, less than a week has passed since the "Ten Plagues of Egypt" that broke out across the world, and rescue and reconstruction are still going on in New York.

As long as you turn on your mobile phone, turn on the TV, and access the Internet, there is an overwhelming amount of relevant information.

Those who were exposed to the bloody rain all developed severe symptoms of skin infection. Fortunately, existing medical methods can treat it, and some patients with mild infections who were not seriously infected were cured and discharged. However, there were also patients with severe infections who suffered from multiple diseases caused by the inflammatory storm. Death due to organ failure.

This world has become very dangerous. Or perhaps, the world has always been so dangerous, but the storm finally began to flood this ignorant island.

"Kevin..." Moen Jackson hesitated, then looked at the worried parents, "Sean, Helena, the situation may not be that simple, and it may not be good."

Hearing the doctor's words, the faces of the Greer family changed. Helena prayed to God repeatedly, and Kevin was in a daze.

"Kevin's condition, I now suspect, is a rare disease called 'muscular ossification progressive', which is very, very rare."

Morne-Jackson explained this rare disease to them clearly. After the patient develops the disease, the soft tissues and muscles all over the body will gradually ossify, and finally the body will become like a living stone sculpture. After the disease was identified, the number of confirmed cases worldwide has not exceeded 1,000 in the past few decades. There is no surgery, no medicine, no treatment.

"No, no..." Kevin Greer murmured, his voice gradually becoming excited, and his face turned red with excitement, "Doctor, you are mistaken!"

Not to mention playing professional baseball, you can't even live a normal life. You can only live until you are in your forties, unable to walk, unable to move in any way...

Learn supernatural powers and become a superhero...

These thoughts flashed through, and Kevin Greer excitedly grasped the contradiction in Dr. Jackson's words just now, "You said this disease develops chronically, but three days ago I was fine, and now I'm only three It’s only days, just three days! Look what has become of my hand, will it happen so quickly?”

"Yes." Sean immediately agreed with his son's words and asked hopefully: "Dr. Jackson, it shouldn't be that disease, right?"

They have to convince themselves that the incidence rate is 0.5 cases per million people and less than 1,000 cases have been diagnosed in several decades. How could this happen?

"There is no genetic problem in our family." Helena also said, "Today is the first time I have heard of such a disease."

"Actually, I have to report Kevin's situation to fbm." Morne Jackson said in a serious tone, explaining why he made this judgment, "A few days ago,

fbm has issued an early warning to the medical community. If there is a suspected patient with progressive muscular ossification, they must report it immediately and they will take over. "

When Kevin heard fbm, he was excited for a moment, but he immediately realized that his relationship with fbm was not for any good reason.

Both Sean and Helena were stunned, and Helena's eyes were even redder, "Dr. Jackson... what does this mean? Why fbm..."

In fact, they vaguely know the answer themselves.

This disease... what happened to Kevin may be related to supernatural forces and the recent catastrophe.

"No, no..." Kevin Greer suddenly laughed, feeling that all these diagnoses were ridiculous, shaking his head.

"How could it be me? The last time I went to New York was a few years ago! I haven't done anything. It must not be like this. It must be Dr. Jackson. You must have made a mistake...what is fibrodysplasia...ossificosis" , what do you mean by that disease? It definitely can’t be..."

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