Plague Doctor

Tick, tick.

The clock kept spinning, and on the big screen of the Emergency Command Center, Team B had only 4: 00: 00, four hours left to leave the countdown.

The countdown to the bombing tunnel is ten hours away.

Team A's problem team has been in fantasy for two hours, and the physical corridor in Jiangxing Town remains stable, with more personnel in place. Teams B and C are also assembling quickly, and there will be more spellmen in the team.

The Command Centre is busy everywhere and there is a wide range of coordination and arrangements among its personnel.

While talking to Dr. Shen, Dr. Kang and others, long before the departure of Team A, when Gu Jun was still connected to the line, they talked about the possibility of sending people to dream in spirit and go along with his spiritual connection as last time. Spiritual dreams do not consume that physical passage.

They don't know where Karl Plains and Worm House are, but Dr. Kang says if there's a connection, theoretically, you can try it.

“Don't let Wu Shiyu's spirit dream.” At that time, Gu Jun solemnly said, "Her spiritual dreams can bring bad luck, as Elder Atar told her in particular. ”

The problem is that Wu Shiyu is the person most closely connected to his spirit, but Gu Jun said that he really wanted to take this step, then ask Wang Ruoxiang, she knows how to do it.

In the extraordinary period there is the principle of employing people in the extraordinary period, Wang Ruoxiang has tacitly departed from the quarantine base, and is also going to the assembled dream team...

“Two hours.” Dr. Shen is really worried. "I don't know what's going on with Arjun. ”

At the same time, the other thing that makes the command center nervous is the species of the "rhinestone" tree, which Atar gave us, which is bound to be of great use.

The research fleet has planted the trees into the greenhouse. Since Gu Jun has repeatedly stressed that Atar wants to grow them naturally, the fleet follows this principle and is being cultivated and cared for by a team of botanists. Zhang Jinmin, the chief of the fleet, said: "We will never let the organization down. ”

“Master Tong, the body is not in the right condition. ”

The number of patients and deaths continues to surge globally, nationally and in the city of Mountain Sea, and new corpses from the Kingdom have been transferred to the scientific research fleet for further study.

At this point, an eight-fold faster surveillance video appears on the big screen of the Command Center, allowing people to quickly and clearly see the changes in the kingdom's new body.

Medical staff were particularly cold in their hearts. Xiao Huiwen, who had seen the autopsy of the ghost, muttered in surprise: “Too fast, too fast...”

The kingdom's new corpses have been kept warmer than 40 degrees, an increase over the pre-mortem period. This is not surprising, because after the death of patients with encephalitis, pneumonia, etc., due to the bacterial and viral effects, the breakdown in the body is enhanced, the activity of heat production is increased, and it is normal for the body to warm up over a period of time.

But the rest of the bodies show up too fast!

Corpse corruption usually begins 24 hours after death, and within less than five hours of the new death of the kingdom, there has been noticeable decay throughout the body.

First the position of the lungs, then the abdomen, blowing high expansion, then the bloody pus gushes from the mouth and nasal cavity, the skin of the whole body shows dense pustules, does not need external force to poke, swelling to a certain extent explodes, spattering a beach of abnormal pus.

The whole body is rotting like this, and it must be the whole body of tissue that's eating bacteria down.

“Bacteriemia.” Xiao Huiwen made this judgment, "at the time of death, Legionnaires had entered the lesion and developed bacteremia. ”

Without bacteremia, lung bacteria do not spread throughout the body.

Bacteriaemia is the spread of bacteria throughout the body as they enter the blood stream. Even bacteremia caused by common bacteria can lead to extremely serious results, leading to multiple organ acute failure, and bacteremic mortality from Streptococcus pneumoniae can be as high as 60%.

Now it's this new Legionnaires... which also explains why the patient survived so short.

They've had this judgment in the medical department before, but they haven't had time to do a clear exam and autopsy.

It is now largely established that the late marker of this regimental disease is bacteremia, leading to symptoms of purulent infection throughout the body. Just before this symptom was manifested, the patient had died of multiple organ acute failure, and the symptom became a corpse.

This is also true not only of new bodies in the Kingdom, but also of other patients in Jiangxing Town Hospital, as well as other bodies elsewhere.

They have all those Legionnaires that reproduce so fast! Otherwise they wouldn't rot so fast, they're turning into a pile of pus.

And after the death of the patient, the Legionnaires seemed to reproduce faster...

“I bet there's a spell in there.” Grandpa Tong muttered, "The vitality of this bacterium is so disgusting. ”

“There should be spells...” Dr. Kang also thought, "Or a science we don't know yet. ”

Legionella vulgaris are generally 0.6-1.2 microns in diameter and can sometimes grow to more than 50 microns.

Now scientists have detected from the patient's blood sputum samples that some new Legionnaires have grown to over 100 microns, and they can be particularly large.

But researchers are not sure how small this Legionnaire is when it's minimal.

It is certainly smaller than 0.3 microns, however, because the N95 medical mask with a 0.3 micron particle filtration rate of more than 95% is completely ineffective, and the filtered respiratory protectors that are typically used in tertiary protective clothing to filter 0.07 micron particles are also not useful.

Bacteria can be small, until the smallest known bacteria have a "nanobacterium” diameter of only 50 nm, or 0.005 microns.

Thus, when the Legionnaire spreads, it is very likely to be less than 0.01 microns, so much so that only airtight protective clothing now works, but does not support that much demand at all, especially the needs of the general population.

To date, however, researchers have not found such small Legionella bacteria in existing blood sputum samples and air samples, with a minimum of 0.1 microns.

Can they shrink deformation?

In some of the previous research experiments on bacterial culture at the Space Station, bacteria did understand that they could be deformed against drugs, but they weren't ready to be deformed...

That's probably a good thing. People have heard Jun describe an alien plague “coughing hemorrhage” that can spread without bacteria, viruses, and parasites. The exact mechanism is unknown, and it seems to be infectious to rely on an idea like a nightmare disease.

If this new Legionnaires fungus is targeted for "cough hemorrhage," it's definitely very close...

The State has launched the Spark Plan, and some of the big and important figures are evacuating to secret bases.

At this time, regardless of Grandpa Tong, Dr. Shen, or Shinian Yao, everyone is silently thinking, Ah-jun, if you can hurry up with anything on your side, hurry up.

Also at this time, the alarm sounded suddenly in the command center, and the personnel whispered and shouted, "A fleet has appeared! There's a fleet out there! ”

Real-time images coming from the research fleet, just outside the fleet, of a ghostly fleet coming in the dark.