Chapter five hundred and forty-two new influenza virus
Southern China, Shenhai City.
"The Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued an influenza prevention and control warning to the public: During the Spring Festival, people go out frequently and visit relatives and friends more, which makes it easier for the influenza virus to spread. Therefore, it is a period of frequent influenza in previous years. Chief Physician Gu Qing, Director of the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention said , Winter and spring are the seasons with high incidence of influenza. The latest monitoring data shows that there is currently an outbreak of influenza in this city. The incidence of influenza this winter is significantly higher than in the previous two years, and there has been a significant increase in the past week compared with the beginning of the year. In the past week, the number of influenza in this city has The proportion of sample cases in outpatient cases has increased several times compared with the same period last year. However, the public must be more vigilant, pay attention to maintaining good hygiene habits, and do a good job in influenza prevention. The municipal party committee and government have issued important instructions on disease prevention and epidemic prevention. All relevant departments are carrying out emergency measures. Consultation and the introduction of effective control measures..."
After completing the live news program, You Xiaojing, the host of Shenzhen TV Station's news broadcast, carefully organized her press releases.
"Ahem!" You Xiaojing has had a slight cough since yesterday, but she didn't take it seriously. She bought some cold medicine and took it, but it didn't have any effect.
"Xiaojing, do you have a cold too? You have to be careful with the recent influenza outbreak. According to internal news, this time the influenza virus is a new mutated type with very strong drug resistance. There are now hundreds of thousands in the entire deep sea. Infected people. All hospitals are crowded with people. Antiviral drugs in pharmacies are almost out of stock." You Xiaojing's colleague Liu Chen asked with concern. He didn't really care. As for influenza viruses, outbreaks seem to be normal.
But what You Xiaojing and Liu Chen didn't know was that this virus was far from as simple as they imagined. Shenhai City was not the only place where the influenza virus broke out. From south to north, almost all large, medium and small cities were swept by this new influenza virus. .
The situation in Huacheng City is even more serious than that in Shenhai City. Millions of people have been infected with the influenza virus. Many factories have had to close due to the outbreak of the influenza virus. And migrant workers who felt that something was not right began to evacuate from Huacheng in panic. This rapid population flow has accelerated the rapid spread of this new influenza virus.
Because it was an influenza virus, it did not attract much attention at first. The disease control department was only trying its best to ensure the supply of medicines. The focus was also on the research of specific drugs for this new virus. It was not expected that this influenza virus contained What kind of conspiracy is there.
Zhang Qi and his fellow villager Zheng Jinfeng were carrying their bags and preparing to go home. The factory they were working in was unable to start work because a large number of workers were attacked by colds. It was impossible to find a new job at once. Zhang Qi discussed with his fellow villagers and found out that it was approaching the twelfth lunar month anyway. , simply go home early and come to Huacheng next year. There are many people like Zhang Qi and Zheng Jinfeng who plan to make the Spring Festival travel that is nearly a month ahead of schedule.
The train station suddenly became crowded, and a large number of travelers from north to south met here. This also happened to spread the new influenza virus quickly to all parts of the country.
After more than ten days of treatment, the hospitals in Shenhai and Huacheng discovered that this new influenza virus was unusual. Li Xiaosong, a respiratory doctor at Shenhai People's Hospital, found that various existing antiviral drugs were unable to deal with this new influenza virus. .Previous treatment methods have completely lost their effect. Ribavirin is ineffective, oseltamivir is ineffective, rimantadine is ineffective... Even some traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions have lost their due effect in this treatment.
Li Xiaosong smelled something wrong. According to his experience, no matter how the influenza virus mutates over the years, some effective drugs can always be found for them. This situation is unprecedented. Unless this virus It is not a result of mutation under natural conditions, but is artificially produced in the laboratory. If the latter is the case, then the situation is more complicated.
Li Xiaosong informed the department director Zhao Jiqian about the situation.
Zhao Jiqian disagreed: "Xiao Li, you are overthinking. Young people should not always hold conspiracy theories. This is a new type of influenza virus. The current misuse of antibiotics has led to the acceleration of influenza virus mutation, and the emergence of a new type. It's a natural thing. Besides, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is paying attention to this matter, and experts from various fields are also studying this new influenza virus. Could it be that they can't see the problems that you can see?"
Li Xiaosong wanted to defend himself, but was dismissed by Zhao Jiqian: "Young people should not think about becoming famous all day long. While you are young, you should do your job well in a down-to-earth manner instead of thinking about unrealistic things. .”
R&D Center of Handing Group, Tanshan City, Sanxiang Province.
Samples of the new influenza virus have been sent to the laboratory of Handing R&D Center. Various studies on this new virus are already being carried out intensively.
"Everyone, come and take a look. There is something abnormal about this nucleic acid chain. We have searched all the nucleic acid chains of previous influenza viruses and found no such sequence. It is these strange sequences that make this new virus very powerful. Drug resistance. Almost immune to all existing anti-influenza virus drugs. This nucleic acid fragment is not formed by natural mutation, but is artificially synthesized. It is the product of genetic engineering technology. On this point, I have more evidence."
When Song Rui said this, he stopped and dug out some new information.
"This is the nucleic acid sequence data of the virus sample that we obtained through various ways. From it, we found some sequences that are homologous to this new influenza virus. And these sequences, a large amount of data can prove that they are artificial A sequence synthesized by a certain method. Someone cloned this synthetic sequence into the genome of this new virus. This makes this new virus have extremely strong spreading ability and extremely strong drug resistance..."
After Zhao Jianwei waited for Song Rui to finish his introduction, he continued: "In addition to what Dr. Song said, we also made an amazing discovery. We discovered a more terrifying ability of this virus, which is that it can identify the people it infects." To be more specific, this virus only targets Chinese people. It can even accurately distinguish Chinese, Japanese and Xianbei people. This is not a spread of influenza virus, but a man-made biochemical attack."
An exclamation came from the conference room of Handing Group's R&D center.
Zhao Jianwei waited for the conference room to become quiet before continuing: "In our research, we found that this virus specifically recognizes some characteristic genes on the Chinese genome. Therefore, only Chinese people can be infected with the virus."
"Damn it!" Sun Chaokun couldn't help but cursed.
In the conference room, the researchers at the R&D center were also very angry.
At this time, Qin Chuan slowly entered the conference room.
All the researchers in the conference room immediately focused their attention on Qin Chuan and stood up one by one to welcome Qin Chuan's arrival. (To be continued)
