When the world just turned its attention to the epidemic in Africa, Chen Chen was already conducting experiments.
At this time, hundreds of patients infected with BE-006 were already living in the closed isolation room.
These patients are volunteers selected by the company from nearby areas and have signed a personal agreement. Even if they die in the end, Blacklight will not be held responsible.
Professor Bernhard, who was in charge of this virus research, stood in front of the isolation window, looking at the rows of hospital beds inside the window, and checking the process of each treatment at the same time.
At this moment, the door to the observation room opened quickly, and Chen Chen appeared directly behind the door.
"Boss, why are you here?"
Everyone turned their heads and said hello.
"These troubled times, of course I can't stay out of it."
Chen Chen waved his hand and asked the leader, Professor Bernhard, "Have the symptoms of the virus been calculated?"
"Through the autopsies of thirty corpses and research on hundreds of patients in the past few days, we have already gained a certain understanding of the symptoms of BE-006."
Bernhard confidently took out a file and handed it to Chen Chen, "The situation is basically recorded."
Chen Chen took the album and flipped through it slightly.
The first picture in the album is a pattern taken by an electron microscope. On it are several filaments coiled into bowknots, like worms.
Under the pattern, the words BlackwatchEbola are marked.
Bernhard explained on the side, "It looks very beautiful, somewhat similar to its relatives, but it is actually an out-and-out killer."
"Who says it isn't?"
Chen Chen shrugged and turned to the second page, which showed a photo of a black man.
It's just that this black man was bleeding from seven holes, even his skin was oozing with blood, and he looked extremely dull.
"These are the standard symptoms of hemorrhagic fever."
Bernhard explained, “The principle of BE virus is almost the same as that of its relative Reston virus. They both enter the air through droplets produced when the host speaks, and then travel along the eyes, nose, mouth or wounds of the infected person. Enter the body of an infected person.”
"As for the phenomenon that occurs after entering the human body, I divided it into three steps."
Bernhard held out a finger.
"The first step, which is the earliest stage of infection, is to attack human white blood cells, destroy their sensing ability, and cause the infected person's body to lose the protection of white blood cells. Then the infected person's blood will change and become more and more... It gets thicker and thicker.”
"Moreover, this virus also likes to attack connective tissue. The main component of connective tissue is collagen. They multiply here in large quantities. Then the infected person's skin will liquefy and necrosize from the bottom, and blisters will appear that burst at the touch of a touch. Symptoms of bleeding appear…”
When Chen Chen heard this, he turned to the third page and saw hundreds of blood blisters on the face of a black patient. His face was almost invisible.
"The next step is step two."
Bernhard continued, "The patient will bleed non-stop, and the mouth, gums, breasts, eyes... no matter how small the pores are, will start to ooze blood, because after the white blood cells, the blood cells will also be killed, the cells will be lysed by the virus, and the cells will The organs were scattered everywhere, until the blood was left full of viruses that lysed cells... "
"That happens quickly, within days, because that's the power of a virulent virus."
Bernhard said, spreading his hands, "Then comes the third step, which is also the last step in the life of the infected person."
"At this time, the infected person's mouth begins to rot, the tongue and necrotic organs will be coughed out when coughing, and his liver will turn into mush, and his intestines will fill with blood, as if the whole person begins to grow from the inside out. melted… "
"Moreover, their nerves also begin to die and their expressions appear sluggish. Only then will the patients gradually die."
Chen Chen turned to the back and saw anatomy diagrams of corpses.
"It is indeed a guaranteed Ebola-style death."
Chen Chen simply closed the report and said, "Publish this on the homepage of our company's website and publicize it to the world. Now let's talk about something more straightforward. Has the virus's incubation time and treatment been found?"
Bernhard immediately shook his head after hearing this and said regretfully, "According to our investigation, the current incubation period has risen to 7 days. We suspect that the incubation period of BE-006 is similar to that of other Ebola viruses, and can reach up to 20 days." .”
"This is really bad news."
Chen Chen's expression became more and more solemn. The longer the incubation period, the farther the virus can spread and the greater the threat it can pose to human civilization.
"As for treatment methods, we have only tried two treatments for the time being, namely NPC1 inhibitor therapy and conventional symptomatic treatment."
Another professor explained, “The Ebola virus needs to enter the cell nucleus through NPC1 to replicate itself. Once the NPC1 protein blocks the transport of cholesterol, the disease will be significantly inhibited. After the first group of patients were injected with NPC1 inhibitors, The disease has been temporarily suppressed."
"However, traditional symptomatic treatments are much less effective. Traditional symptomatic treatments include electrolyte liquids, oral rehydration and intravenous infusions, repairing lost platelets to prevent bleeding, and maintaining oxygen levels in the blood, etc."
“Today’s mortality rate with traditional symptomatic treatment is around 35 percent.”
Chen Chen did not speak, because he understood that the reason why the mortality rate of traditional treatment was not high was because the disease had not reached the late stage.
The longer it goes on, the higher the mortality rate will be.
"Now it seems that NPC1 inhibitor therapy is the most effective treatment for Ebola virus."
Evans added, "The only disadvantage is that NPC1 inhibitor therapy will cause patients to develop Niemann-Pick disease, which is too expensive."
"There's nothing we can do about it."
Chen Chen said solemnly, "By the way, when can our company start researching a vaccine?"
"About half to a month later, when we will fully understand the nature of the virus."
Evans thought for a while and estimated, "In half a month, the mortality rate of this plague will probably be estimated, and some international assistance will arrive. That will be the time to truly launch a counterattack."
"And by that time, there will also be some patients who have produced antibodies and recovered on their own, and their serum can be used to treat the virus. In other words, what we have to do now is how to stop the spread of the epidemic as much as possible within a month."
"very good."
Chen Chen nodded, "You can rest assured. Although I cannot guarantee that the virus will not spread into the Life Sciences City, I can at least guarantee that once any epidemic is discovered, it can be suppressed immediately, and I will definitely give you a stable research environment.”
After encouraging everyone again, Chen Chen took a live strain of BE-006 and left the research center.
Chen Chen will start another study on this live virus strain in the Minaret Laboratory. After all, the equipment of the Minaret Laboratory is more advanced than the level 4 biosafety laboratory of the research center.
Moreover, there are also top genius scientists such as Hannibal and Li Lei in the Spire Laboratory. In addition, Chen Chen will also ask Xiao X to join this research.
Although there is no creativity, Xiao