Plague Doctor

Gu Jun and Wu Shiyu left many wonderful memories this evening of Yuanxiao Festival.

But the next morning, there was another call. In this Jiangjing Suite, they were informed of the latest bad news, abnormal Tourette's disease erupted in female children and spread in an unknown manner. Currently, the epidemic area is concentrated around Dongzhou City. 75 sick children have been admitted to hospitals, and “Gu Jun” will be shouted at in the event of an emotional attack.

On the other hand, cocoa beans have not shown signs of disease, and it is not known if there is any connection.

Is this "Little New Year's Gift”? Gu Jun heard angry and had a cracked headache. Who is that guy...

“Eastern State, Eastern State...” He can naturally contact me, “Someone wants me to go back there...”

Speaking of which, he hasn't been back to Eastern State in a while.

Less than seven o'clock, the two left the hotel, ending this brief and sweet world of two, returning to the Shenhai Sky Machinery Station and returning to the turbulent outside world.

“Bedtime stories were heard before the onset.” In the road car, Wu Shiyu thought of something, "is it all a monster eater's story? ”

“The story of the smiling Buddha?” Gu Jun shrugged and endured a headache.

“A lot of fairy tales have this kind of bridge.” Wu Shiyu gave a few random examples, "Little Red Hat" had wolves eating people, "Wolves and Seven Little Goats" had wolves eating goats, "Giants Who Swallow Princess" had giants eating princesses... “I wonder if those kids' parents were telling them that. ”

It may be true that Wu Shiyu guessed correctly, and the investigation found that most patients had heard or seen such stories within a week before the onset of the disease, for unknown reasons, but it seemed absolutely inseparable, which could be the pathogen.

NASA immediately proceeded to issue a circular asking parents to stop telling such dark stories because they were harmful to the child's physical and mental health, and to seek medical attention as soon as the child developed Tourette's symptoms; cartoons with violent elements, etc. were also temporarily suspended and recovery time was not fixed.

Now that NASA has promulgated something, even if the reasons are unclear, the public can guess what's going on, and therefore attaches particular importance.

When Gu Jun and Wu Shiyu returned to the base, they first went to the safe house to see Xiao Ke Dou, but the child was safe and alive.

At this point, however, the number of children admitted to treatment has exceeded one hundred, all young girls aged 5-8.

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Nanxiang Third People's Hospital, medical personnel busy outside, came down one day, there have been 15 children received here, and some tests have also had results, no conventional pathogens have been found from the patient's samples, the disease does not appear to be common infectious.

MRI imaging excludes children with brain abnormalities; normal TSH levels exclude hypothyroidism; normal serum copper and bronze blue protein levels exclude Wilson's disease… nor Streptococcus infection, drug-induced aspiration, head trauma, encephalitis, carbon monoxide poisoning, etc.

Physiologically, this is Tourette's disease, so it's hard to deal with, and there's nothing you can do about it.

There is a hypothesis that Tourette's disease is an autoimmune disorder of the nervous system caused by dysfunction in the frontal lobe, thalamus and other brain regions.

This is now something beyond the current level of human medicine. Even the medical department at the headquarters of the Astronomical Institute, a brain scientist like Professor Ma Jun, can only prescribe some antipsychotic drugs and norepinephrine drugs.

Human science is developed, but human science is lagging behind.

The brain, nervous system, whether it's Gu Jun or a five- or six-year-old girl, can't help the famous doctors.

The brain and pediatric specialists at Nanxiang Third People's Hospital are equally powerless. Who can effectively treat Tourette's disease is equivalent to effectively treating many neurological disorders. That is not a matter of winning one or two prizes. The creation of a new medical place is unimaginable today.

Nevertheless, they have been busy all day, trying their best, thinking and coming up with ideas.

Liu Guolin was also uplifted. After being trained by Director Zhang in the morning, he was not ashamed of himself. He just felt that he could not go on like this. Even if he was socialized, he had to struggle to socialize slowly, do something, do something good.

Perhaps driven by him, or heartbroken by the sick children, Yu Chunhui and Zhang Wenjun are also particularly active today.

Director Zhang took the three of them with him. He was too busy for lunch. He just ate a few pieces of bread. In the evening, there were more and more sick children and the work could not stop, but the director was tired of seeing everyone, giving them a break to eat and having colleague shifts.

As a result, the four men and several other department colleagues went to the hospital canteen.

“The interval between a patient's braking attacks is a bit long.” Director Zhang was still thinking on the road, thinking on his fat face, "I had a seizure in the morning, it's almost 12 hours now, and I haven't had a second seizure... Though people with Tourette's disease have no rhythm in braking attacks, it usually doesn't take this long. ”

The road to the cafeteria is a forest road, and they've been busy for a day, walking by these lush trees, and it's kind of refreshing.

“Director, we know too little.” Yu Chunhui really wants to relax for a while, "we can't figure anything out. ”

“Hey, it's okay to be idle!” Director Zhang was dissatisfied, "If you have a daughter think about your daughter, if you have relatives and children think about relatives and children...”

“Alas, why are you picking girls to get sick? These girls are such bad luck.” Zhang Wenjun sighed, "The good end doesn't know what to get into. ”

Liu Guolin was about to say a few thoughts, but suddenly he noticed the shadows shaking around him. He looked up instinctively and saw a shadow rapidly over the sky. His mind burst into shock... Director Zhang, Yu Chunhui and Zhang Wenjun next to him stood still, shouting and screaming, running to run...

The accident came so suddenly, so fierce.

Another group of paramedics walking in the distance woke up and watched as a huge tree burst over there.

Without a typhoon or rain, the old tree seemed to rot in the trunk, tipping over and pressing heavily on a group of people passing by.

One of the people watching was almost paralyzed by a nurse, who lost her soul at the moment, even in the face of so many patients and rescues.

She saw that the white coat had been crushed by the tree. The middle-aged and fat leading man had been stabbed through his body by several thick branches. Blood was pouring everywhere. Her eyes were dying. One female doctor was crushed by the trunk of the tree and the other young male doctor's head had been ripped out by a large branch...

She knew the young male doctor, Liu Guolin, who was the doctor from the emergency pediatric department.