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 cannot be carried out, global society could collapse within a month.
Even if they all have their own thoughts, 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 is artificially created and spread by humans: the afterlife society, the old man with a withered face, and possibly the Raleye Order...
Tianji 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 tests are carried out on the ship.
experiment.
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 is 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,
They are all infected, but disease control ethics 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 had a look of surprise on their faces, and Uncle Dan who followed them was also surprised.
It wasn't because of the strange smell, they didn't smell it.
In the glass disc petri dish, clusters of bacterial colonies had formed, which were round, off-white, moist and shiny, and slightly convex.
This is exactly the colony characteristic of Legionella pneumophila.
"How long have you been cultivating this?" Uncle Egg asked.
"About 34 hours." He Feng coughed, "The culture medium was not changed in the middle."
Looking at the almost exhausted culture medium in the petri dish, Uncle Dan was silent. This 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 highest 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 phase gradually decreases, the number of deaths slowly increases, and the number of bacteria that grow, divide and die is
The number of cells is in a state of dynamic equilibrium.
It takes a process to cultivate bacteria to this highest point.
But in the current situation, the bacteria in the petri dish seem to have entered a period of decline. The nutrients in the culture medium are not enough, and more bacteria are dead than alive. This speed is faster than that of ordinary intracellular parasitic bacteria and ordinary hemophilic Legionella.
They are several times faster, they are multiplying and growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Moreover, they die too slowly. Colonies in the declining stage should not have this texture unless there are a large number 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.
This is why the patient's condition progresses so quickly. Now every minute, in the macrophages of the lung tissue of these infected people, this new type of Legionella is multiplying crazily, eroding more lung areas, and
It damages every system in 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 hopes that he can 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 of the colonies into another culture bottle, sealed it, and handed it over to a team of special personnel to take away and transport 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, all kinds of 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 Egg 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 scale, 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 looks like a worm.
But now this new type of Legionella is still oblong in shape and seems to have some obvious spots on its surface.
But zoom in, zoom in again...
The spots on its surface are all extensions like limbs, which are constantly twisting and swinging.
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 when he saw it. They are really crazy.
"Ahem." He Feng then made another 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 face of the man at the head was terrifying. He Feng and the others were stunned for a moment. Was that caused by severe burns? It didn't look like...
"Ajun!" Uncle Dan shouted suddenly, as if he had found a backbone, and his fighting spirit was a little higher, "Come and see this thing."
He Feng thought about it, Gu Jun, Doctor Gu! The superiors had explained before that Doctor Gu was 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.