Plague Doctor

Not only Shanhai City, but also the Americas, Europe, Africa, Oceania, and many countries and regions around the world are experiencing outbreaks of this new type of Legionnaires' disease.

This is a global disaster.

At this rate of spread, if effective containment fails, global society could collapse within a month.

Even if they all have their own concerns, governments of various countries can only stand together for the time being, and scientific researchers and medical personnel from all over the world are racing against time.

China was the first to publish PCR results, Legionella pneumophila.

It was also the first report that erythromycin had no effect.

New clues have just been announced to the secret services of many countries. The germ was artificially created and spread: the afterlife society, the old man with a withered face, and possibly the Raleye Order...

Secret Bureau personnel are at the forefront. The country has also dispatched a number of ships by sea to the waters near Shanhai City. The fleet has complete scientific research equipment and scientific research teams. Samples and patients are transported by helicopter from Shanhai City, and various experiments are conducted on the ship.

If an epidemic occurs in the fleet, everyone will still be evacuated.

From the moment they set out, they had only two outcomes, success or death.

A batch of samples and patients have been shipped out from Jiangxing Town, and at Jiangxing Town Hospital, the front line in the epidemic area, everyone has not given up the fight.

There was a lot of noise outside, and the small laboratory was in a mess. The newly installed PCR amplification instrument and other equipment were placed on the experimental table, and coughs kept coming.

He Feng is no longer in isolation, as are his deputy Li Wen and other testing personnel, but they still wear level three protective suits, not only to relieve their own anxiety, but also to reduce the concentration of bacteria in the air. Although everything here is polluted and they are all infected, the ethics of disease control cannot be lost.

Once they throw it away, they are afraid that something will collapse in their hearts and they will never be able to pick it up again.

For bacterial culture using Wang Guoxin's blood sputum samples, the petri dishes were placed in the small constant-temperature incubator in the corner.

When they opened it before, He Feng and the others looked shocked, and Uncle Dan who followed them was also surprised.

It wasn't because of the stench, they didn't smell it.

In the glass disc petri dish, clusters of bacterial colonies had formed, round, off-white, moist and shiny, slightly convex.

This is exactly the characteristic of Legionella pneumophila colonies.

"How long have you been cultivating this?" Uncle Dan asked.

"About 34 hours." He Feng coughed, "The culture medium was not changed in the meantime."

Looking at the almost exhausted culture medium in the petri dish, Uncle Dan was silent. The reproduction speed was too fast.

There are four stages of microbial growth: sluggish stage, logarithmic stage, stable stage and decline stage.

The stable phase is also called the maximum growth phase or the constant phase. In the words of medical books: Due to the consumption of nutrients in the culture medium and the accumulation of harmful metabolites, the reproduction rate of microorganisms in this period gradually decreases, the number of deaths slowly increases, and the number of growth, division and death of bacterial cells is in a state of dynamic balance.

It takes a process to cultivate bacteria to this highest point.

But under the current situation, the bacteria in the petri dish seem to have entered a period of decline - the culture medium does not have enough nutrients, and there are more dead bacteria than living ones. This speed is several times faster than ordinary intracellular parasitic bacteria and ordinary Haemophilus Legionella. It is simply multiplying and growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

And they die too slowly. Colonies in the declining stage should not have this texture unless there are a lot of living bacteria in them.

So what do they consume? Are there really "harmful metabolites" for them?

He Feng's chills became more severe, and the breeding process that originally took more than ten days was completed in one day.

That's why the patient's condition progressed so quickly. Now every minute, this new type of Legionella is multiplying crazily in the macrophages of the lung tissue of these infected people, eroding more lung areas and damaging various systems throughout the body.

Based on the rate at which Wang Guoxin's condition is progressing, in about ten hours, he will become completely weak and gradually lose consciousness.

For the sake of his daughter, He Feng hoped that he could struggle for a while longer.

Maybe it was this period of work that brought about a turn for the better.

With this feeling in mind, everyone quickly separated the bacteria, put some colonies into another culture bottle, sealed it, and then handed it over to a team of special personnel to take away and transport it to the fleet.

There are more equipment and drugs out there, and more tests can be done to test the susceptibility of bacteria to antibiotics, and various tests to look for the weaknesses of this bacteria.

Then they got busy again and took the petri dish to the high-precision microscope that was also brought in to observe the bacteria.

"This damn thing..." Uncle Dan muttered, "Look what it looks like."

Uncle Egg leaned towards the eyepiece of the microscope. Because he was wearing this airtight protective suit, this was really not an easy task. It took a lot of effort to see something. Uncle Egg's heart tightened and his spirit seemed to be affected. He was a little panicked. feeling.

Generally, Legionella appears as an oblong shape under a microscope, like a capsule.

But if you zoom in on the arithmetic number, you can see that its surface is actually bumpy and full of lumps of things that look like brains and intestines squeezed together.

That way, it looked like a worm.

But now this new type of Legionella is still oblong in shape, and it seems to have some obvious spots on its surface.

But zoom in, zoom in again...

The spots on its surface are all extending out like limbs.

The thing is constantly twisting and swaying.

It seemed that various limbs were taken from the limb warehouse of hell and spliced ​​together. If you zoom in, you can see... The "palm" of each limb has a hole that looks like a mouth. , there are other organizations squirming inside...

Is this man-made? Uncle Dan felt even heavier after seeing this, they were really crazy.

"Ahem." He Feng then made an observation. This was the most bizarre and deformed bacteria he had ever seen in his years of disease control work.

At this time, the door of the small laboratory was pushed open, and a group of young people wearing air-tight protective clothing walked in with guns.

The man in the lead had a terrifying face. He Feng and the others were stunned for a moment. Was that caused by severe burns? Not quite like...

"Ajun!" Uncle Dan shouted suddenly, as if he had found his backbone, and his fighting spirit was a little higher, "Come and see this thing."

He Feng thought about it, Gu Jun, Doctor Gu! It has been explained before that Dr. Gu is a hero in the secret department.

"Doctor Gu!" He Feng couldn't help shouting, tears almost bursting out of his eyes, please save us, save my daughter...

From the moment Gu Jun entered the laboratory, he felt a sense of hallucination. He nodded to everyone and then strode towards the microscope.

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