Not only Shanhai City, but also America, 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 catastrophe.
At this rate of spread, without effective containment, global society could collapse within a month.
Even if they have their own ideas, the 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 together.
Huaxia was the first to produce PCR results, Legionella pneumophila.
It was also the first report that erythromycin had no effect.
New clues have just been notified to the secret departments of many countries. The germ is artificially manufactured and spread: the afterlife, the old man with a haggard face, and there may be the Raliyah order...
The personnel of the Astronomy Bureau are at the forefront. The country has also sent several ships to the waters near Shanhai City by sea. The fleet has complete scientific research equipment and scientific research teams. Helicopters transport samples and patients from Shanhai City, and conduct various experiments on board.
If there is an epidemic in the fleet, everyone will still be evacuated.
From the moment they set off, they have only two outcomes, success or death.
A batch of samples and patients had already been transported out of Jiangxing Town, and in Jiangxing Town Hospital, the frontline of the epidemic area, everyone did not give up fighting.
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 laboratory table, and the sound of coughing continued.
He Feng is no longer in isolation, as are his deputy Li Wen and other inspectors, but they still wear level-three protective clothing, not only to relieve their own anxiety, but also to reduce the concentration of bacteria in the air. Although everything here is polluted and they are all infected, the disease control ethics cannot be lost.
Once lost, they are afraid that something will collapse in their hearts and they will never be able to pick it up again.
Bacterial culture was done with Wang Guoxin's blood sputum sample, and the petri dish was placed in the small constant temperature incubator in the corner.
When they opened it before, He Feng and the others all looked surprised, and Uncle Dan who followed was also surprised.
It's not because of the smell, they didn't smell it.
It was in the glass disc petri dish that clusters of colonies had formed, round, off-white, moist and shiny, slightly raised.
This is exactly the colony characteristic of Legionella pneumophila.
"How long has this been cultivated?" Uncle Egg asked.
"About 34 hours." He Feng coughed, "The culture medium was not changed in the middle."
Looking at the medium that was almost exhausted in the petri dish, Uncle Dan was silent. This reproduction speed is too fast.
There are four periods of microbial growth, the lag period, the logarithmic period, the stable period, and the decline period.
The stable period is also called the maximum growth period or the constant period. In the words of medical books: due to the consumption of nutrients in the culture medium and the accumulation of harmful metabolites, the reproduction speed of microorganisms in this period gradually decreases, the number of dead bacteria increases slowly, and the number of bacterial cells that grow, divide and die is in a state of dynamic balance.
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 die than live. This speed is several times faster than ordinary intracellular parasites and ordinary haemophilus Legionella, and it can multiply and grow at a speed visible to the naked eye.
And they die too slowly, decay colonies shouldn't be of this texture unless they're heavily populated with live bacteria.
So what are they consuming? Are there really "harmful metabolites" for them
He Feng's shivering symptoms became more severe, and it took more than ten days to complete the breeding in one day.
That's why the patient's condition progresses so quickly. Now, every minute and every second, in the macrophages of the lung tissue of these infected people, this new type of Legionella is multiplying crazily, eroding more lung areas, and also damaging various systems throughout the body.
Based on Wang Guoxin's disease progression rate, in another ten hours or so, he will feel weak all over his body and gradually lose his mind.
For the sake of his daughter, He Feng hoped that he could struggle for a while longer.
Maybe it was the work for a while that brought about a turning point.
With such a mood, everyone quickly separated the bacteria, put a part of the colony into another culture bottle, sealed it, and handed it over to a team of special personnel to take it away and ship it to the fleet.
There are more equipment and drugs, and more bacteria can be tested for antibiotic sensitivity and various tests to find the weakness of this bacteria.
Then they were busy again, taking the petri dish to the high-precision microscope that was also brought in to observe the bacteria.
"This damn thing..." Uncle Dan muttered, "Look at what it looks like."
Uncle Dan leaned towards the eyepiece of the microscope, because wearing this airtight protective suit, it was really not an easy task, and he finally saw something, Uncle Dan's heart tightened, his spirit seemed to be affected by the shaking, and he was a little flustered feeling.
Under the microscope, the general Legionella appears as an oblong shape, like a capsule.
But if you zoom in again, you can see that its surface is actually bumpy, full of things that look like brains and intestines crowded together.
That way, it looks like a worm.
Now this new type of Legionella is still oblong, and it seems that there are some obvious spots on the surface.
But magnification, and magnification...
The spots on its surface are all stretched out like limbs, constantly twisting and swaying.
It seems to take out various limbs from the limb warehouse in hell and stitch them together, and then zoom in, and you can see... the "palm" of each of its limbs has a hole like a mouth, There are other tissues squirming inside...
Is this man-made? Uncle Dan felt even heavier, he was really crazy.
"Ahem." He Feng then observed that this was the weirdest and most deformed bacteria he had ever seen in the years he had been working in disease control.
At this time, the door of the small laboratory was pushed open, and a group of young people in air-tight protective clothing walked in with guns.
The man in the head had a horrific face, and He Feng and the others were stunned for a moment. Was it caused by severe burns? not quite like...
"Ah Jun!" Uncle Dan shouted suddenly, as if he had just found the backbone, his fighting spirit was a little higher, "Come and see this thing."
He Feng thought about it, Gu Jun, Doctor Gu! It was explained by the superiors before that Dr. Gu is a hero in that secret department.
"Doctor Gu!" He Feng couldn't help shouting, tears almost came out, save us, save my daughter...
From the moment Gu Jun entered this laboratory, he felt a sense of phantom surge. He nodded to everyone and strode towards the microscope.
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