Pollution throughout the territory - #319 - Chapter 315 The Prelude to the Age of Plague

Even though he had seen many horrific scenes, Xia Ren couldn’t help but gasp when he saw the projection.

To be honest, he didn’t see that it was a human brain at first glance. It was a bit of a dark yellow brain and was in pieces, like a ball of tofu piled together. But if he looked carefully, he could still see from that mind-blowing mass. Among the disgusting white residue, the unique groove structure of the cerebral cortex can be distinguished.

“This is a patient’s brain that has lost 30 percent of its mass.”

The deputy dean said: “The patient died suddenly from hair loss at work. Apart from poor sleep, neither his family nor his colleagues found any other obvious abnormalities before his death. An autopsy revealed that although his brain was damaged, Nearly one-third of the mass was lost, but almost none of the lost parts touched the functional area.”

“What is Bulong Zheng?”

Xia Ren quietly asked Niu Changshou beside him, who explained: “You can simply imagine the brain as several rooms, and the rooms are connected by passages. Bloon’s sign means that cysts, tumors, or cysticercosis appear in the fourth room. Things like this, due to sudden changes in people’s body positions, these things also moved, blocking the exit of the fourth room, affecting brain function. Do you understand? “

“understood.”

Xia Ren nodded.

In fact, he still doesn’t quite understand.

These professional medical terminology involved a blind spot in his knowledge. Even the introduction just now was confusing to him, such as hepatic encephalopathy, chorea, and cerebral artery steal syndrome. He was completely confused. .

The vice president switched to the next picture. This time the brain was much more complete than the previous one, but the long and twisted holes in the fissures of the cerebral cortex could still make people feel seriously uncomfortable. Xia Ren subconsciously recalled Recalling the escape he experienced in his ancient dream not long ago, the cave inhabited by Bayaki is like an enlarged version of the brain at this time, and the winding and rugged cave inside is the hole in the brain at this time.

Those were really bad memories. When he thought of the final stage of the ancient dream and the fat body under the maggot man’s cloak, Xia Ren felt that the discomfort in his heart became more serious.

“It’s more than that.”

The vice president continued: “The brains of other patients were dissected and found that although these hollow holes were eating away at the brain, they basically did not touch the functional areas, and most of the patients’ brains were not infected, so even though they looked They sound scary, but in fact the damage they cause to the human body is very limited.

According to the information currently available, nearly 70% of patients die not from brain damage, but from other reasons. “

“Any idea?”

Niu Changshou asked.

The two professors and the vice dean looked at each other and shook their heads.

“Patients die in many and complicated ways, many of which are caused by accidents in life due to physical exhaustion, some who choose to commit suicide due to tremendous mental pressure, and some who die suddenly from unknown causes and irreversible multiple organ failure.”

One of the professors added: “The reason for the formation of hollow-like holes in the brain and where the missing brain tissue went is also a mystery. We speculate that it is because of some kind of parasite, but so far no trace of parasite activity has been found. The patient No parasite secretions or other foreign matter were detected in the brain. More importantly, none of the suspected patients showed an immune response, indicating that there was no invasion of foreign matter into the body. In other words, the patient’s body was not invaded by normal organisms.”

Immune response refers to the host’s immune response process to parasite antigens, which is divided into three stages: antigen processing and presentation, immune cell reproduction and differentiation stage, and the generation of cellular immunity and humoral immunity.

Although it seems to be a way for the immune system to fight parasites, in fact, immunity should bring not only good results. It is divided into two types. One is protection with different degrees of protection for the host. Immunity can also cause host tissue damage and immunopathological damage. Usually, these two results will coexist in the same host.

Most of the clinical manifestations produced by the immune response process are relatively obvious and therefore helpful for doctors’ diagnosis.

If these cases are really caused by some kind of parasite, it is still a tricky thing to not trigger the human immune response, or the immune response is extremely weak.

Niu Changshou listened to their opinions quietly and thought about it in his heart.

“From the first suspected case to the present, we displayed the residential addresses of all patients on the map in order from light to dark in the order in which they appeared, and the result was such a rendering.”

The vice president brought up the map screen, and it was obvious that starting from Dongpu University of Science and Technology, dense red dots spread out in a circular shape throughout Dongpu City. The source of atypical insect phobia was instantly clear.

“Dongpu University of Science and Technology…”

Niu Changshou narrowed his eyes slightly and said, “Maybe it’s still related to the incident two years ago.”

“Two years ago?”

The deputy dean frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly said in surprise: “Are you talking about the case where the paleontologist disappeared together with a dozen students?”

“It’s not certain yet.”

Niu Changshou stretched his body and said, “Let’s stop here for now. Are there any surviving cases? Take me to see them.”

“Can.”

Two professors stood up from their seats. They were experts in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular and neurosurgery respectively. They also knew about the existence of the World Superman Association, so they could participate in it.

The vice president walked in front, guiding them and said: “At present, the number of admissions in our hospital has been reduced by about 70%, and we do not accept inpatients. All suspicious cases in Dongpu City have been collected and treated in our hospital. “

“Aren’t you afraid of getting infected?”

Qin Yun couldn’t help but ask.

The vice-dean turned around, glanced at her, and said flatly: “You don’t understand what this means.”

Yes, Qin Yun is not a medical major, and she couldn’t understand the other party’s explanation just now, so she didn’t realize the seriousness of the problem yet.

A disease with a fatality rate of almost 100%. It is highly insidious and has acute symptoms. It can greatly affect the quality of life of patients. It has a high probability of being confirmed to be contagious, but the terrible thing is that its route of infection is still unknown.

There are very few examples of such serious infectious diseases in history. If I had to find one for comparison, it would be the plague!

Although only 1,200 cases have been detected so far, it is so difficult to diagnose that no one knows how many people have been infected.

As a large commercial tourism city, Dongpu City receives more than 300 million tourists every year. The runway of the airport never stops 24 hours a day. There are planes taking off and landing here all the time, carrying people to all over the world, and bringing tourists to all over the world. People from all over the world fly here.

It took a few months for atypical entomophobia to spread from Dongpu University of Science and Technology to every corner of Dongpu City, a city with a permanent population of more than 10 million, increasing the city’s fatality rate by 13 percentage points.

So how long will it take for Dongpu City as the center to spread its existence to every corner of the world?

This is no longer just a disease.

It’s…a plague!