After the gastroscopy, Zhou Kewen had a strong sense of vomiting, but he did not vomit in the end, nor did he vomit blood.
His condition is not optimistic, but he is not very clear about it. The medical team did not tell him that Wang Ruoxiang just gave him some painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs. The patient's abdominal pain eased, but his mental state became worse and worse, and he kept asking for more soil. .
The three left the isolation ward. After Zhou Kewen, the second patient, Sun Cuiting, also had an accident, with the same abdominal pain symptoms.
They also performed a gastroscopy on Sun Cuiting, and found the translucent white filamentous locust.
In the end, all the six patients who participated in the experiment were like this, and it made no difference whether they had eaten ordinary soil, vomited blood, or taken Valium.
Although they were in contact with live patients with locusts in their bodies, even though they were wearing protective clothing, the possibility of infection among the three people was greatly increased.
Wang Ruoxiang also had fear in his heart, but he didn't put much energy into it. If he was infected, he should hurry up and finish the work, while it was still in the incubation period and his mind was still awake. She sorted out some of her thoughts since she dissected Principal Cui, and made a tripartite connection with the medical team and the command center.
Before entering the communication room, she had to go through a set of inspection procedures, including being printed by the old printing staff. After all, no one knew what her condition was now.
And there were only a few commanders who spoke directly to her, Si Kouxian on the medical team side, and Yao Shinian on the command center side.
After hearing the bad news, everyone's expressions became more solemn.
There are also a thousand patients who have not eaten the abnormal soil, all of them can be turned into a locust bank at any time, just need to eat some abnormal soil.
Now the experiment proves that they cannot meet their demand for different food, otherwise it is just feeding parasites, and it is foreseeable that the patients will die in great pain in the end.
Even if they're insane and their white matter is destroyed, it's better than that...
As for Wang Ruoxiang, she has a few ideas.
"Principal Cui's group of patients, and Director Wang's and Zhou Kewen's group of patients, do they have the same pathology?"
Wang Ruoxiang set up to ask, like hepatitis B patients, there are big three yangs and small three yangs. However, the pathology of parasitic diseases is usually the same, unless Principal Cui is the first intermediate host, and teachers and students are the second intermediate host. But that's not the case at the moment.
Principal Cui has at least three forms of this parasite in his body, larvae, semi-adults, and adults.
Larvae were found in the bodies of President Cui, Zhou Kewen and others, and Zhou Kewen's larvae were decomposed from their own tissues.
The process of larvae developing into adults in their bodies should theoretically be consistent with pathology.
"What if not?"
Wang Ruoxiang said seriously.
"Their pathology has shown different manifestations. It took almost four days for Principal Cui to blew himself up, but there are still many intact parts of his gastric mucosa, and there is no tissue damage and repair; but Zhou Kewen and Sun Cuiting only took less than four hours. The gastric mucosa is almost completely gone. The speed of the lesions in this area is different.
In addition, in terms of spirit, Principal Cui showed reason and fanaticism even before he blew himself up; Zhou Kewen and the others were painful and close to madness.
Female locusts can excrete more than 100 eggs at a time. I was wondering if the first batch of patients, such as President Cui and Li Yuhao, were female locusts? A special kind of worm carrier? And the second batch of patients were eggs? An acute infection? "
Wang Ruoxiang said that these are not only her medical inferences, but also her psychic feelings.
Under normal circumstances, after the human body is infected with parasites, there are some characteristics.
"Carriers" refer to those who have no obvious clinical symptoms and signs after infection, but can transmit pathogens.
Parasites seldom have an acute infection. Usually, after some clinical symptoms appear, there is no treatment or incomplete treatment and gradually turn into a chronic persistent infection stage. In this way, there will be tissue damage and repair at the infection site, like schistosomiasis There is not only the formation of liver worm egg granuloma, but also the process of liver fibrosis.
With Zhou Kewen's current speed and scope of infection, the transformation of the whole body into locusts is the category of abnormal things.
There is also a feature called "larval migratory disease", which means that some larvae cannot develop into adults after invading an unsuitable host, but they can survive and move in the host for a long time, causing local and systemic lesions. At present, because there are no semi-adult or adult worms in human bodies such as Zhou Kewen, another possibility cannot be ruled out: Although they are both human bodies, they are not suitable hosts, which cause these different acute symptoms.
"If Principal Cui's 300 people also had acute symptoms, they would go to the hospital, right? But after a few days, even their family members couldn't see any abnormalities. It's not normal at a glance."
"Do you feel that the second batch of patients has no ability to spread?" Si Kouxian questioned.
"I don't know, I just feel that they are different." Wang Ruoxiang was not sure, "I have another idea about the way of transmission."
Transmission by water, food, soil, air (droplets), arthropods, and direct human transmission.
These are common routes of transmission for human parasites.
Now they cannot rule out that the second batch of patients was infected by inhaling air or droplets with eggs in the playground.
But the scope of transmission was too precise. People on the playground were infected no matter how far or near. However, the uncle guard at the school, the aunt in the cafeteria and others even heard Principal Cui's speech, but they didn't see the scene of self-explosion. I haven't been on the playground, and I haven't gotten sick until now.
Therefore, the medical team ruled out this possibility from the very beginning, and listed witnessing self-explosion as one of the possible conditions for infection.
And now, Wang Ruoxiang witnessed the strange locustization of the patient's gastric mucosa, and the gastroscope also recorded the image.
What is the route of transmission? Mental impact
Where are pathogens after they invade the human body
It is not physically visible, nor is it a nervous system lesion caused by a certain group of people affected by rituals like heterosquamia,
It is the whole body that is infected and it is contagious.
In some previous animal experiments, the mice ate eggs from abnormal soil and parasites from President Cui’s body, but they have not developed any disease so far, and the eggs and parasites came out with their defecation. The same is true for other experimental animals. This is a human parasitic disease, and it seems that only the human body is a suitable host.
"Our previous hypothesis was that the new patient witnessed the self-explosion, and the spirit was affected, which led to the lesions of the body."
Wang Ruoxiang frowned and said, "So this can explain why only the teachers and students on the playground were infected. But can we be sure? At the moment when Principal Cui blew himself up, all 1006 teachers and students really witnessed it? The investigation department That’s not the case with the findings.”
Yao Shinian and Si Kouxian both knew what she was talking about. Although the teachers and students all said that the scene was terrible, after careful interrogation, it was found that many people were not looking in the direction of Principal Cui at that time. Blocked, in short, they did not witness that scene.
But they also got sick. This is the flaw of the hypothesis of "witnessed self-destruction".
"What if there is really a range? It's just that this range just covers 1006 people on the playground." Wang Ruoxiang said, "Whether they were listening to Principal Cui's speech or seeing Principal Cui's self-explosion, it is Whether you are afraid or calm, as long as you are within this range, you will be infected."
A few people listened, vaguely seeming to think of something...
"What if the locust disease is transmitted through radiation?" Wang Ruoxiang added, "A physical radiation is generated the moment Principal Cui's head explodes, and the energy spreads outward in the form of electromagnetic waves or particles until it decays to nothing. The process is that scope."
"After the human body within the range is irradiated by this kind of locust, it will cause genetic mutations like nuclear radiation, but it is the same mutation. It seems that some genetic information is fixedly changed, or a piece of new information is implanted, It causes the human body to become a large insect egg, which will transform into a locust only if it needs the right nutrition."
Her hypothesis made Yao Shinian and the others unexpected, and seemed to awaken the dreamer with a single word.
Not eating bug eggs, air, droplets, contact, dark encroachment, mental effects... it's radiation.
So the old seal is useless, it's biological, it's genetic.
If this is the case... it also means that no matter how strong the will and belief are, there is no way to fight against it. It is not the spirit, but the genes.
And such an abnormal disease, "pathogens invade human genes by some kind of radiation", has never been faced by the Bureau of Astronomy, and human civilization has never faced it.
Even if it is not a strange disease, human beings are still only laymen when it comes to treating genetic diseases.
"I have another idea." Wang Ruoxiang sighed deeply before saying it. This idea made herself, Yao Shinian and the others shudder.
"What if that wasteland is also a mutated area? There is already radiation from locusts there? So all the people who came there on Arbor Day will be infected?"
From Principal Cui's self-explosion to the present, in the past forty hours, there have been many Tianji personnel who have entered and exited that wasteland, including the Concentric Team.
Although each of them was wearing nuclear radiation protection suits, they didn't stay for a long time.
But the peacock had the idea of wanting to eat that kind of locust.