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When the international community had just turned their attention to the epidemic in Africa, Chen Chen had already started experiments.

At this time, hundreds of patients infected with BE-006 have already lived in the closed isolation room.

These patients are all volunteers selected by the company from the surrounding area and signed a personal agreement. Even if they die in the end, the Black Light Company will not be held responsible.

The professors in charge of the virus research, Bernhard, stood in front of the isolation window, looking at the rows of hospital beds in the window, and checking the process of each treatment at the same time.

At this moment, the door of 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.

"In 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 counted?"

"Through the dissection of 30 corpses in the past few days, and the research on hundreds of patients, we have 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 which are several filaments coiled into bows, like worms.

And under the pattern, the words are being marked.

Bernhard explained on the side, "It looks very beautiful, and it is somewhat similar to its relatives, but it is actually an out-and-out killer."

"Who said it wasn't?"

Chen Chen shrugged and turned to the second page. On it was a photo of a black man.

It's just that this black man was bleeding from seven holes, and even his skin was seeping blood, and he looked extremely dull.

"That's the standard symptom of a hemorrhagic fever."

Bernhard explained, "The principle of the BE virus is almost exactly the same as that of its relative Reston virus, which enters the air through the droplets produced by the host when it speaks, and then travels along the eyes, nose, mouth or wound of the infected person. into the body of an infected person."

"As for the phenomenon that occurs after entering the human body, I have divided it into three steps."

Bernhard holds up a finger.

"The first step, that is, the initial stage of infection, it first attacks human white blood cells, destroys the white blood cell's perception ability, and makes the body of the infected person lose the protection of white blood cells, and then the blood of the infected person will change and become more and more It's getting thicker."

"Moreover, this virus also likes to attack connective tissue. The main constituent of connective tissue is collagen, where they proliferate in large quantities. Afterwards, the infected person's skin will liquefy and die from the bottom layer, and blisters will appear that will burst when touched. Symptoms of bleeding..."

Hearing this, Chen Chen turned to the third page, only to see a black patient's face covered with hundreds of blood blisters, and he could hardly see his face clearly.

"Next is the second step."

Bernhard continued,

"Patients will bleed, mouth, gums, breasts, eyes... no matter how small the pores will start to ooze, because after white blood cells, blood cells will also be killed, cells will be lysed by viruses, and organelles will be scattered everywhere. As long as the blood is full of viruses that lyse cells..."

"It's going to happen so quickly, in a matter of days, because that's what a virulent virus can do."

Bernhard spread his hands as he spoke, "Then comes the third step, which is also the last step of the infected person's life."

"At this time, the mouth of the infected person begins to rot, the tongue and necrotic organs will be coughed up when coughing, and his liver will become mushy, and the intestines will be filled with blood, as if the whole person begins to rot from the inside out. melted……"

"Moreover, their nerves also began to die, and they appeared sluggish. Only then did the patients gradually die."

Chen Chen turned to the back, and there were all the anatomical diagrams of corpses.

"Sure enough, a guaranteed Ebola-style death."

Chen Chen simply closed the report, "Publish this on the homepage of our company's website and publicize it to the whole world. Now let's talk about something more intuitive. Have you found the incubation time of the virus and a cure?"

Bernhard shook his head when he heard the words, and regretted, "According to our investigation, the current incubation period has risen to 7 days. We suspect that the incubation period of BE-006 is almost the same as other Ebola viruses, and the maximum can reach 20 days. .”

"This is really bad news."

Chen Chen's expression became more and more serious. The longer the incubation period, the farther the virus can spread, and the greater the threat to human civilization.

"As for the treatment method, we have only tried two treatments for the time being, namely NPC1 blocker therapy and conventional symptomatic treatment."

Another professor explained, "Ebola virus needs to enter the 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 the NPC1 inhibitor, The disease has been temporarily suppressed."

"However, the traditional symptomatic treatment methods are much less effective. The traditional symptomatic treatment includes electrolyte liquid oral rehydration and intravenous infusion, repairing lost platelets to prevent bleeding, and maintaining oxygen levels in the blood, etc."

"Today's traditional symptomatic treatment has a mortality rate of about 35 percent."

Chen Chen didn't open his mouth, because he understood that the reason why the death rate of traditional therapy was not high was that the disease had not yet reached the late stage.

The longer the delay, the higher the death rate.

"NPC1 blocker therapy appears to be the most effective treatment for Ebola so far."

Evans added, "The only downside is that NPC1 blocker therapy can cause Niemann-Pick disease in patients, which is too expensive."

"This is also impossible."

Chen Chen said solemnly, "By the way, when can our company start researching vaccines?"

"About half to a month later, when the nature of the virus is fully understood."

Evans thought for a while, and estimated, "After half a month, the death rate of this plague will probably be estimated, and some international aid will arrive. At that time, it is time to really launch a counterattack."

"And at that time, there will also be some patients who produce antibodies and recover by themselves. At that time, their serum can be used to treat the virus. That is to say, what we need 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 can't guarantee that the virus will not spread into the Life Science City, I can at least guarantee that any epidemic will be contained immediately once it is discovered, and it will definitely give you a sense of stability. research environment."

After encouraging everyone again, Chen Chen took a live strain of BE-006 and left the research center.

For this live virus strain, Chen Chen will conduct another research in the Spire Lab. After all, the equipment in the Spire Lab is more advanced than the Level 4 biosafety laboratory in the research center.

Moreover, there are also top genius scientists such as Hannibal and Li Lei in the steeple laboratory. Besides, Chen Chen will also let Xiao X join this research.

Although there is no creativity, but with the computing power and micro-manipulation ability of Xiao X, he can easily analyze the genetic map of the virus and use complex gene editing technologies such as CRISPR-Cas9.