Plague Doctor

After Wang Jinbo vomited violently, the medical team performed a gastric lavage on him to clean out all the 50 grams of soil he had eaten. After that, his heart rate, blood pressure and other vital signs slowly dropped to normal and high levels.

All ten patients who participated in the experiment had this result. After eating soil, they developed symptoms of food poisoning, including abdominal pain and vomiting, and six patients were accompanied by vomiting blood.

The medical team then performed gastroscopy on all ten patients and found that the esophagus and gastric mucosa of the patients with hematemesis had ruptured bleeding sites. This should be acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding caused by them swallowing soil too quickly. The medical team immediately performed hemostatic treatment and infused plasma and glucose.

Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding is not a serious matter, but what is more serious is the change in the patient's mental state.

After the experiment, ten patients were so agitated that they were close to losing their minds, and five patients, including Wang Jinbo, needed diazepam injections. They had been clamoring not to eat this kind of soil, but to eat another kind. They were scolding the doctors and nurses for cheating them, wanting them to die, and killing them.

If the patient simply has no appetite or even cannot eat, he or she can still survive by injecting intravenous nutrition solution.

But mental psychology is another aspect. In addition to sedation treatment, the next step is to immobilize the patient's whole body, artificially coma, and damage the nerves...

Even though the medical team has the best resources, it doesn’t have many means.

Si Kouxian has experienced this kind of dilemma again. Patients with heterosquamia have to scratch when they feel itchy, while patients with locust disease feel hungry and have to eat specific soil. The two may be based on the same principle, and the patient's spirit is affected by a certain ritual or a certain power.

In fact, this influence comes from the mutated area.

The mutated area is there, no matter what role it is playing, the Tianji Bureau has no way to end it for the time being.

Should the patient be fed that abnormal soil? What kind of nerve damage surgery should be done? Lobotomy?

The plans for these clinical experimental projects have been put on the command center's podium. Destruction and resection will cause irreversible and permanent damage, and feeding abnormal soil may cause the patient's condition to progress to the next stage.

Through the previous autopsy of Principal Cui, the medical team had a question: Did the patient eat mud because he was infected with parasites, or was he infected with parasites due to eating mud?

Now Director Wang and his colleagues have another question about their symptoms. The patient desires to eat abnormal soil. Is it because of the eggs in the mud, or is the soil just fine?

The area of ​​the abnormal wasteland was quite large. There were a large number of insect eggs in some soils, but not all of them were there.

The first question cannot be clarified directly now. A normal person would not suddenly eat mud, and there are more than 300 people missing. They should have been mentally affected before eating mud. But there is no clue to show what kind of state Principal Cui was in before he ate mud, or when he ate mud for the first time.

But if you can figure out the second question, then you almost have the answer to the first question.

If the patient is mentally affected and is driven to eat the eggs of different locusts, and then becomes infected with parasites after eating the eggs, the parasites will drive the patient to eat more soil.

If it is such a disease process, then no matter how much ordinary soil or abnormal soil is eaten, as long as the eggs are not eaten, it will not develop to the next stage. It also means that these patients infected by Principal Cui do not yet have alien locust parasites or any physically transmittable pathogens in their bodies.

In this case, as long as they are not exposed to the different locust eggs and these patients are transported out of Mobei, their epidemic situation will be controlled.

As for treatment, you can also see if abnormal soil and Mobei soil can satisfy them.

However, if these patients are mentally affected and have parasites in their bodies, they can hatch, grow and reproduce as long as they eat the corresponding soil.

Or Principal Cui became infected after eating the eggs and became a carrier, but new patients infected by him do not need to inhale the eggs for the parasites to appear in their bodies...

This is the worst case scenario, harder to understand and harder to control.

The Bureau of Secrets has no control over where the more than 300 missing people have gone, nor is it sure what is special about the abnormal soil other than the presence of insect eggs.

Because judging from the results of soil composition testing, the "abnormal soil" is no different from other wasteland soil in Mobei, and there is no nuclear radiation.

In view of the current critical situation, the command center still issued an order to conduct this clinical experiment.

We need to do experiments to know what the results will be.

It was past ten o'clock in the evening on March 17, and the isolation base was still busy. Wang Ruoxiang rubbed her temples and continued to cheer up.

Six patients participated in the experiment this time. Four of them had just done the experiment of eating ordinary soil, two had vomited blood, two had not, and one of them had been injected with diazepam; the other two patients had never eaten ordinary soil.

Since the mechanism of locust disease transmission is unknown, teachers and students witnessed and listened to Principal Cui's self-destruction.

Patients who eat abnormal soil may produce bugs, which may then self-destruct and become infectious, so this experiment must be conducted with caution. Monitoring of the high-level isolation ward where the six patients are located will continue, but the command center will not be able to watch the real-time situation.

Not even everyone on the medical team is watching, or walking into the ward whenever something happens.

There were only three people on the front line of this operation. They were all watching the surveillance and entering the ward, and they were all mentally prepared for the possibility of being infected.

"I can see what state the patient is in, I can do magic, and I know first aid."

One of them volunteered

Wang Ruoxiang, she wants to make some contribution. After being imprisoned for so long, the situation is so serious now. Gu Jun is missing, Wu Shiyu has lost his soul, and the dose equivalents of Deng Ximei and many others on the front line have been exhausted. It is time for her to do something. .

Tongye agreed to her request. This operation was no less dangerous than walking into a mutated area, but this was what the staff of the Conjuration Department were here to do.

In addition to Wang Ruoxiang, the other two people are nurse Lin Shizhe and investigator Chen Xiang, both of whom know the old seal.

The six patients are not undergoing experiments at the same time. If there is a big problem at the beginning, there is no need to conduct subsequent experiments.

The first patient in the experiment was named Zhou Kewen, male, 18 years old, a senior high school student. He had eaten ordinary soil, vomited blood and injected diazepam.

At this time, Zhou Kewen was sitting semi-fixed on the hospital bed, his feet were tied and his hands could move. Although he was sedated, he still couldn't calm down. The door of the ward opened with a bang, and an unmanned car drove in. The door was closed again. Only 50 grams of abnormal yellow-brown soil without insect eggs was placed in the car.

"Ah, ah..." Zhou Kewen's heart rate suddenly rose rapidly, and he struggled excitedly. Before the car reached the bed, he reached out to explore the small ball of soil.

Wang Ruoxiang's voice came from the loudspeaker in the corner of the ward: "Classmate Zhou, you can start eating, try to eat as slowly as possible, so as not to hurt the esophagus again..."

But Zhou Wen didn't seem to hear it. He grabbed the dirt with trembling hands and stuffed it into his mouth, his expression almost crazy.

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