Plague Doctor

After gastroscopy, Zhou Kewen had a strong feeling of vomiting, but eventually did not vomit, nor did he vomit blood.

His condition was not very optimistic, but he was not quite clear to himself. The medical team did not tell him that Wang Ruoxiang had just given him some painkillers to relieve the patient's abdominal pain, but his mental condition was worsening and he kept asking for more dirt.

Three people withdrew from this quarantine ward, and after Zhou Kewen, Sun Cuiting, the second subject, also had the same symptoms of abdominal pain.

They also performed a gastroscopy on Sun Cuitin and found the translucent white filamentous locust.

This was the case for all six patients who participated in the experiment, and there was no difference in whether they had eaten ordinary soil, vomited blood, or stabilised.

Live patients exposed to ectopic locusts, although wearing protective clothing, are significantly more likely to be infected.

Wang Ruoxiang also had flashing fears in his heart, but he didn't have much energy to focus on this. If he was infected, then get to work quickly, while he was still lurking, while his mind was still awake. She sorted out some thoughts since she dissected Principal Choi and made tripartite connections with the medical team and command center.

Before entering the communication room, she was subjected to a set of screening procedures, including the printing of old prints by old printers. After all, it was unclear what was going on with her.

Only a handful of commanders spoke directly to her, the medical team was on the side of Sikou Xian, and the command center was on the side of Yao Shinian.

When we heard this bad news, we all looked heavier.

There are also an entire thousand patients who have not eaten abnormal soil, all of whom can be turned into a locust bank at any given time, only to eat some abnormal soil.

Experiments have now proven that they cannot meet their dietary needs, otherwise they are raising parasites, and it is foreseeable that the patient will eventually die in immense pain.

Even if they are insane and the white matter in their brain lobes is damaged, it's better than that...

And Wang Ruoxiang, had a few thoughts.

“Are the patients of Principal Choi's group the same pathologies as those of Director Wang and Chow Kevin? ”

Wang Ruoxiang asked, like hepatitis B patients there is a difference between Dasanyang and Xiaosanyang. However, the pathologies of parasitic diseases are usually the same unless Principal Choi is the first intermediate host and the teachers and students are the second intermediate host. But this is not the case at the moment.

Principal Choi has at least three forms of this parasite: larvae, semiadults, adults.

Larvae were found in people such as Principal Choi and Chow Kevin, and their larvae were decomposed from their own tissues.

It's a process whereby larvae develop into adults in their bodies, and in theory they should be pathologically consistent.

“What if it's not? ”

Wang Ruoxiang said seriously.

“Their pathologies have manifested themselves differently. It took Principal Choi almost four days to self-explode, but his stomach mucosa still had many intact parts, which had not seen tissue damage and repair; but Zhou Kewen and Sun Cuiting were less than four hours old, and his stomach mucosa was almost completely gone. The rate of lesions varies in this regard.

Also spiritually, even before the suicide bombing, Principal Choi showed reason and fanaticism; Zhou Kewen were in pain and near madness.

Female locusts can expel more than 100 insect eggs at a time, I wonder if Principal Choi, Lee Woo-ho, these first patients are female locusts? A special wormwalker? And the second batch of patients were worm eggs? An acute infection? ”

Wang Ruoxiang said that these were both her medical inferences and her sense of consciousness.

Normally, the human body has certain characteristics after infecting a parasite.

“Insect bearer” refers to a pathogen that does not present significant clinical symptoms and signs after infection, but can transmit.

Parasites rarely develop acute infections, usually after some clinical symptoms, and gradually move to chronic and persistent infection without thorough treatment, so that there are tissue damage and repairs at the site of infection, such as schistosomiasis, which involves both the formation of liver worm granuloma and the process of liver fibrosis.

At speeds like Chow Kevin and them right now, the extent of infection, locusting all over the body, is the scope of the anomaly.

Another feature, called larval migration, is that certain larvae, after invading unsuitable hosts, are unable to develop into adults, but can survive and move in the host for a long time, causing localized and systemic lesions. At present, because no half-aged or adult worms have appeared in humans, such as Zhou Kewen, another possibility cannot be ruled out: although they are the same as humans, they are not suitable hosts to cause these different acute symptoms.

“If Principal Choi had acute symptoms, would they have gone to the hospital? But a few days down, even their families couldn't see the anomaly, which looked like a wormwalker. Director Wang, Zhou Kewen and the others, at first glance, could see the irregularities. ”

“Do you feel the second group of patients do not have the ability to communicate?” Skoke questioned.

“I don't know, I just feel like they're different.” Wang Ruoxiang is not sure, "I have another idea about the means of communication. ”

Water transmission, food transmission, soil transmission, air (splash) transmission, arthropods transmission, direct human transmission.

These are common routes of transmission for human parasites.

Now they can't rule out that the second group of patients is infected by inhaling bug egg-bearing air or foam in the playground.

But the transmission range was a little too precise. Everyone in the playground, regardless of the distance, was infected. But at that time, the school's uncle guard, the canteen aunt and others even heard Principal Choi's speech. He just didn't see the scene of the self-explosion, he wasn't in the playground, and so far he didn't get sick.

So the medical team was more likely to rule out this possibility from the outset, and listed witnessing self-explosion as one of the possible conditions for infection.

And now, the patient's gastric mucosa is strangely locusted, and Wang Ruoxiang witnessed it with his own eyes, and the gastroscope recorded the image.

What is the transmission route? Mental impact?

Where was the pathogen after it invaded the human body?

It's not physically visible, it's not like scaly disease, it's a neurological disorder caused by ritual-affected psychosis in a specific population.

The whole body is infected and contagious.

In previous animal experiments, mice had eaten abnormal soil eggs and parasites in Principal Choi's body. To date, they have not developed any morbidity, and worm eggs and parasites have returned to defecate with them. The same goes for other experimental animals. This is a human parasitic disease, and it seems that only the human body is a suitable host.

“Our previous hypothesis was that the new patient was witnessing a self-explosion that affected his mind, leading to pathologies that triggered the organism. ”

Wang Xiangxiang frowned and said, "So that explains why only teachers and students on the playground are infected. But can we be sure? At the moment of Principal Choi's self-destruct, did 1006 teachers and students really witness it? That is not the case with the investigation department. ”

Yao Shinian and Shikou Xian all knew what she was saying. Despite how horrible the scene was when teachers and students spelled it out, however, careful interrogation found that many people did not actually look in the direction of Principal Choi. Some people looked elsewhere and some people were blocked. In short, they did not witness the scene.

But they got sick, too. This is the hard wound of the hypothesis of "witnessing a suicide bombing”.

“What if, really, there's a range? Except it covers exactly 1006 people on the playground.” Wang Ruoxiang said, "Whether they were listening to Principal Choi or not, whether they saw Principal Choi's self-destruct, whether they were scared or calm, as long as they were within this range, they would be infected. ”

A few people listened, it seemed like something had occurred to them...

“What if locust disease spreads through radiation?” Wang Ruoxiang added, "A kind of physical radiation, generated at the moment of Principal Choi's head explosion, energy diffuses outward in the form of electromagnetic waves or particles until it decays to the point where it disappears, and this process is that range. ”

“When the human body in the range is exposed to this alien locust radiation, it causes a genetic mutation, just like nuclear radiation, but with the same mutation. It's like being fixedly altered with some genetic information, or being implanted with a new piece of information that turns the human body into a large bug egg that locks in just the right nutrients. ”

Her hypothesis made Yao Shinian both unexpected and as if to awaken the dreamer.

Not eating insect eggs, air, foam, contact, dark erosion, mental effects… is radiation.

So old stamps don't work. It's biological, it's genetic.

If that is the case… it also means that no matter how strong the will and firm the conviction, there can be no confrontation, not the spirit, but the genes.

And this abnormal disease, "the pathogen that invades the human gene by some kind of radiation," has never been confronted by the astronomical machinery, never by human civilization.

Even if it's not a foreign disease, humans are still just outsiders when it comes to treating genetic diseases.

“I have one more thought.” Wang Ruoxiang only spoke after a long sigh. This idea made her, Yao Shinian and several others, not cold.

“What if the wasteland, too, is a mutated area? There's already exlocust radiation in there? That's why all the people who showed up for Tree Plant Festival were infected? ”

From Principal Choi's explosion to the present, there have been many astronomers, including concentrator teams, who have been in and out of the wasteland in the past 40 hours.

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

But Peacock, there was a thought of eating that locust.