On the night of the Lantern Festival, Gu Jun and Wu Shiyu left many good memories.
But the next morning, there was another call. In this river view suite, they learned the latest bad news. The abnormal Tourette's syndrome broke out in female children, and the mode of transmission is unknown. At present, the epidemic area is concentrated in Dongzhou City, and 75 patients have been admitted to various hospitals. Sick children will call out "Gu Jun" when they have tics.
On the other hand, Xiao Kedou has not shown signs of illness yet, so I don't know if there is any connection in it.
Is this a "little New Year's gift"? Gu Jun was angry when he heard it, and his headache was splitting. Who is that guy...
"Dongzhou, Dongzhou..." He got in touch naturally, "Someone wants me to go back there..."
Speaking of which, he hasn't been back to Dongzhou for a long time.
Before seven o'clock, the two left the hotel, ended this short but sweet world for two, went back to the base of Shenhai Tianji Bureau, and returned to the turbulent outside world.
"Before the onset of the disease, I listened to bedtime stories." In Luzi's car, Wu Shiyu thought of something, "Could it be all stories about monsters eating people?"
"The story told by the Laughing Buddha?" Gu Jun pondered, enduring his headache.
"Many fairy tales have this kind of plot." Wu Shiyu gave a few examples casually. "Little Red Riding Hood" has a wolf eating a man, "The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats" has a wolf eating a goat, and "The Giant Who Swallowed the Princess" has a The giant eats the princess... "Well, I don't know if that's what the parents of those children told me."
Maybe Wu Shiyu guessed it right. The survey found that most patients had heard or read such stories within a week before the onset of the disease. The specific reason is unknown, but it seems that it is absolutely inseparable. This may be the pathogen.
The Bureau of Astronomy immediately issued a circular, requesting parents to stop telling such dark stories, because it is detrimental to children's physical and mental health. Once a child develops Tourette's symptoms, please seek medical attention immediately; related cartoons with violent elements are also temporarily closed. All broadcasts will be suspended, and the recovery time is undetermined.
Now that the Tianji Bureau promulgates something, even if the reason is not clearly stated, the public can guess that something has happened, so they pay special attention to it.
After Gu Jun and Wu Shiyu returned to the base, they immediately went to the safe house to check on Little Kedou. The child was safe and active.
But at this moment, the number of sick children admitted has exceeded 100, all of whom are girls aged 5-8.
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At the Third People's Hospital of Nanxiang City, the medical staff are busy. After one day, 15 sick children have been admitted here, and some tests have also yielded results. No conventional pathogens were found in the samples of the patients. , the disease does not appear to be commonly contagious.
MRI images ruled out brain abnormalities in the sick children; normal tsh levels ruled out hypothyroidism; normal serum copper and ceruloplasmin levels ruled out Wilson's disease... nor streptococcal infection, drug-induced tics, head trauma, Encephalitis, carbon monoxide poisoning, etc.
From a physiological diagnosis, this is Tourette's syndrome, so it is also difficult to deal with, and there is no way to start.
There is a hypothesis that Tourette's disease is an autoimmune disease of the nervous system, which is caused by dysfunction of brain regions such as the frontal lobe and thalamus.
This is something beyond the current level of human medicine. Even the medical department of Tianji Bureau Headquarters, a famous brain expert like Professor Ma Jun, can only prescribe some antipsychotic drugs and noradrenergic drugs to patients. Give it a try.
The scientific level of mankind is very advanced, but the scientific level of mankind is very backward.
When it comes to the brain and nervous system, whether it is Gu Jun or a five or six-year-old girl, famous doctors are helpless.
The brain and pediatric experts and doctors of the Third People's Hospital of Nanxiang City are also helpless. Whoever can effectively treat Tourette's disease is equivalent to effectively treating many neurological disorders. That is not to win one or two Nobel Prizes. The new world of medicine created is unimaginable today.
Still, they were busy all day, trying their best to try, think, and come up with ideas.
Liu Guolin also lifted his spirits. After being scolded by Director Zhang in the morning, he didn't feel ashamed and courageous. He just felt that he could no longer muddle along like this. Do something, do something good.
Maybe it was driven by him, maybe it was because of the heartache for those sick children, Yu Chunhui and Zhang Wenjun are also particularly active today.
Director Zhang took the three of them and was so busy that he didn't have lunch formally, but just ate a few pieces of bread. Now in the evening, there are more and more sick children, and the work can't stop, but the director sees that everyone is also tired, so he asks them to take a break to have a meal, and colleagues have shifts.
Therefore, the four of them and a few colleagues from the department went to the hospital cafeteria together.
"The interval between the patient's tic attacks is a bit long." Director Zhang was still thinking on the way, with a thoughtful look on his fat face, "It happened once in the morning, and it has been almost 12 hours now, and it hasn't happened for the second time...Although it's okay The tics in Reye's are arrhythmic, but generally not so long apart."
The road leading to the cafeteria is a section of forest road. After a busy day, they walked by these lush trees, which was quite refreshing.
"Director, we know too little about the situation." Yu Chunhui really wanted to relax for a while, "We can't figure out anything after thinking about it."
"Hey, it's okay to be idle!" Director Zhang dissatisfied, "Those who have daughters think about their own daughters, and those who have relatives and children think about relatives and children..."
"Hey, why do you only pick girls to get sick? These girls are really unlucky." Zhang Wenjun sighed, "I don't know what to get into if they are so good."
Liu Guolin was about to say something, but suddenly noticed the swaying shadows of the surrounding trees. He just looked up instinctively, and saw a shadow quickly covering the sky, and his heart suddenly started... Director Zhang, Yu Chunhui and Zhang Wenjun and the others were stunned, screaming and screaming, those who wanted to run had to run...
The accident came so suddenly, so fiercely.
Another group of medical staff walking in the distance screamed, watching helplessly as a huge tree collapsed over there.
There was no typhoon and no rain. The old tree seemed to have rotted in the middle of the trunk, and it toppled over, completely crushing the passing group.
Among the people watching, a nurse was so frightened that she almost collapsed to the ground. Even after facing so many patients and rescues, she lost her soul at this moment.
She saw that those white coats were all suppressed by a big tree, the middle-aged fat leading man was pierced by many thick branches, bleeding everywhere, seeing that he could not survive, a female doctor was killed The trunk crushed his waist, and the head of another young male doctor was chopped off by a big branch...
She recognized the young male doctor, Liu Guolin, from the pediatric emergency department.
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