Chapter four hundred and eighty first sleeping sickness
In the hospital ward, we saw the victims lying on the hospital bed. On the surface, these victims were nothing special. They had no external injuries on their bodies and looked good. Except for the fact that each of them had their eyes closed.
Outside, everything is no different from normal people.
The third fat man turned to look at the director of the hospital who led us here, and asked him: "Mr. Director, can you introduce the situation of these patients?"
The director of the hospital nodded and introduced: "You two, our hospital received its first comatose patient almost nine days ago. According to his family, this patient has actually been comatose at home for two days, so
His actual coma time has exceeded eleven days. As for other patients, they were all sent here one after another or transferred from other hospitals, including the star who caused a lot of noise recently."
"Celebrity?" The third fat man looked around and said, "By the way, why don't I see the big star himself here?"
The dean said with a smile: "That person was originally here, but because of his special status, paparazzi often came in pretending to be patients' family members, so after communicating with the other party's agent, we moved him to the top floor.
VIP ward.”
The third fat man said: "Is his situation the same as these people? If there is anything special about him, I wouldn't mind going up and taking a look."
The dean said: "That person's symptoms are exactly the same as others, so you two don't need to go out to see him."
"That's it..."
The third fat man nodded and changed the topic. It seemed that he was not very interested in this star.
"How was the hospital's physical examination of these patients? Did they find anything?"
The dean waved to a doctor who came with us next to him, and then said: "You two, this is the attending physician of these patients. He will explain the specific situation to you."
After the director finished speaking, the doctor who was called nodded to both of us, said hello, and then began to explain: "Two leaders, since the first case was discovered, our hospital has been treating patients admitted to the hospital.
The patients in the hospital underwent a comprehensive physical examination. After examination, we can confirm that the physical signs of these patients are normal. We did not find any signs of disease in them. They were simply asleep."
"Asleep?" the third fat man said amusedly, "Then why can't these people wake up? Could it be that they have all turned into sleeping beauties and must find a prince to kiss them before they can wake up?"
The other party laughed twice, and then said: "As for the reason why they were drowsy, let me tell the two leaders honestly. In fact, our hospital has not yet made a conclusion, but after research, we have discovered a possibility."
"Oh?" The third fat man glanced at him and said seriously: "What is the possibility?"
"I wonder if any of you have ever heard of a disease called sleeping sickness?"
Seeing that the third fat man and I looked confused, the other party quickly explained: "It's normal that you two haven't heard of it. This disease is actually caused by a parasitic infection called trypanosoma. The infected person will fall into a long-term
A state of lethargy. There are case records that a king in Africa was infected with this disease in the past, and he fell asleep for 2 years."
"Is there really such a disease? How come I have never heard of such a strange problem?" The third fat man looked in disbelief.
The other party explained: "That's because this disease has only been prevalent in Central Africa in the past. Although this disease is caused by trypanosomes, the source of infection is a fly called tsetse in Central Africa. Whether it is trypanosome
Neither the worm nor the tsetse fly exists in China, so you have never heard of it. In fact, before this, no case of sleeping sickness has ever been found in China."
"Have any of the patients this time been to Africa?" The third fat man turned to look at the people in the Foreign Affairs Office beside us, who replied: "No, in fact, among all the patients, except for the celebrity, there are
There are only two people with records of going abroad, and the places they went to were not poor areas like Africa."
After hearing this, the third fat man turned to look at the doctor who just spoke, obviously having some doubts about what he just said.
The latter coughed and said with some embarrassment: "Leader, sleeping sickness is just our current speculation. After suspecting that the patient may be infected with sleeping sickness, we have also tested the patient's blood, and so far we have not found them.
There are signs of trypanosome parasites in the body. But because there have never been cases of sleeping sickness in China, we are not sure whether our detection method is wrong. Right now we are contacting experts in Europe and the United States who specialize in sleeping sickness. We hope
I can get help from them.”
The third fat man pondered for a while and said: "Okay, this is also a direction of investigation. If you find anything, please contact us immediately."
When these doctors heard this, they immediately nodded in agreement.
After introducing the current patient's condition, the director saw that we had almost finished the visit, so he proposed to take us to the reception room to sit for a while.
The third fat man did not answer immediately, but kept his eyes on the patients in a ward.
Following his gaze, I found that the patient was a young girl who looked a little innocent. I thought that this guy was interested in sex, so I couldn't help but poke this guy with my elbow.
Unexpectedly, San Fatty turned his head with some dissatisfaction and asked me: "Sijiu, what are you doing?"
I glanced at the other people around me and whispered to the third fat man: "You guy, what are you looking at?"
The third fat man glanced at me first, then turned to look at the girl, and realized in vain: "You kid, who do you think I am? What I'm looking at is not the girl, but the instrument next to her... forget it.
…”
The third fat man turned his head and said to the dean: "I'm sorry, can we go in and take a look?"
"Yes, of course."
As the dean said, he was already standing at the door, extending his hand to signal us both to go in.
The third fat man took the lead into the room of the patient he was talking about without any humility. I followed him. When I got closer to the hospital bed, I understood what the third fat man had just said.
Unlike other patients, next to this patient's bed, in addition to the glucose bottles that everyone else has, there is also a somewhat special-looking instrument. This instrument looks somewhat similar to an electrocardiograph.
The display screen keeps drawing a curve like a trough.
I turned around and asked the dean what this was, and the other person told us that this machine was a brainwave recorder. Because this patient's situation was quite special, she was equipped with this additional device.
"Special? What special method?"
"It's like this. This patient is different from others. She was found in a taxi. According to the driver, the girl was riding home and fell asleep on the way. When she got there
After that, the driver called her, but found that she didn't move. So the driver got out of the car and opened the rear door to see what was going on with the girl. As a result, when he opened the door, the girl directly
She rolled from the car to the ground, and her head was hit by the ground. When she was sent to the hospital, her family was worried that she might have a concussion when she hit the ground, so we gave her an extra
A brainwave recorder is used to confirm the condition of her brain."
"So that's it..." I nodded and turned to look at Fatty Three.
But when I saw the three fat men, I couldn't help but be stunned.
While I was talking to the dean, this guy squatted down in front of the brainwave recorder without knowing it, with his fat head almost touching the display screen of the recorder.
"Ahem..." I coughed and whispered: "Three Fatties, what are you doing?"
The third fat man did not answer me immediately, but stared at the screen for a while, then stood up and asked the dean: "Dean, can you read this recorder?"
The dean looked at the third fat man with some confusion and said, "I'm a little savvy. Is there something wrong with this leader?"
The third fat man then pointed at the screen and asked him: "Then can you tell me, what is the status of this patient's brain waves now? Why are they shaking like waves?"