Chapter 642
Good things should be shared
Chapter 642 Good things should be shared
Lin Xiaohe has been busy with military industry and aerospace.
Truth lies only within the range of artillery fire; to become the world's leader, one must rely on strength, not empty words.
Through technological advancements and cooperation with its ally, the Eastern Kingdom has achieved remarkable results in its economic transformation.
The number of laid-off workers is much smaller than the previous one, and they are guaranteed in terms of medical care, pensions, and re-employment.
Throughout the entire Eastern Kingdom, there was no trace of the canine teeth.
Perhaps it was a premonition brought by divine authority, but Lin Xiaohe called Wang Shuxiang in the midst of her busy schedule. However, she did not expect that Wang Shuxiang would faint after only a few words.
Xinbao's news came even faster than the National Health Commission's: "Xiaohe, something terrible has happened in China. A total of 34,000 people nationwide are in a coma, and the cause cannot be found."
Lin Xiaohe immediately put down what she was doing and dialed the relevant department's number.
Sure enough, the situation was very serious.
What caused the coma? What is the pathogenesis? What harm will it cause?
Ask three questions.
This disease seemed to appear out of nowhere, like a meteorite that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, falling from the sky.
Lin Xiaohe paused her work and called Putin, learning that the same situation had occurred in Russia, but due to the population density, the number of people in a coma was not as high as in East Russia.
"Okay, thank you. We'll let you know as soon as we make any new discoveries."
Lin Xiaohe hung up the phone and stared intently westward.
She initially thought it was Gingrich's doing, but she never expected that America would also fall victim to it.
Is it the boundary marker's self-protection mechanism? Does it know that it and Gingrich are fighting for the key, so it decides to wipe them out in one fell swoop?
The Ministry of Science and Technology has taken the lead in establishing an expert group to tackle the novel influenza outbreak.
The investigation was launched simultaneously in six areas: virus tracing, etiology, epidemiology, clinical treatment, and drug screening.
The P3 laboratory operates 24 hours a day, and the sequencing instruments at the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention did not stop for the first week.
The world was stunned by the big move by the East.
"What is Dongguo doing? Have they gone mad? Are they neglecting economic development?"
"It's just a minor flu, isn't it? There's no need to make such a fuss."
"Hehe, our beautiful country isn't afraid. We've already developed a new drug, oseltamivir, for the flu, and it'll be on the market soon."
"Tsk tsk, the rise of the Eastern Kingdom is still too short, and it is far behind the traditional powers in many fields."
The massive government machinery of the Eastern Kingdom was operating at full capacity and had no time to pay attention to outside opinions.
Lin Xiaohe and Xinbao shifted most of their attention to the virus.
The Eastern Kingdom named the virus "Mysterious Element." Eastern Kingdom capital, Disease Research Center.
Lin Xiaohe walked quickly down the corridor. Fluorescent tubes were embedded in the gaps in the ceiling, and the light evenly filled every corner, even compressing the shadows into a thin, pale gray ring around the soles of her feet.
The air was filled with the smell of disinfectant and a faint odor of ozone, and the temperature control system kept the temperature firmly at 23°C.
Lin Xiaohe pushed open the second airtight door, and the indicator lights of the P3 laboratory lit up as a row of dark red dots in the darkness.
In the laboratory, the researchers' silhouettes were slender and elongated by the fluorescent lights.
The positive pressure protective suit is milky white, and the breathing tube is wrapped around the waist, emitting a rhythmic, weak hissing sound inside the mask.
Lin Xiaohe put on protective clothing and three layers of gloves before entering the laboratory.
Dr. Yuan glanced at her and quickly said, "Currently, we have found that the patient has three stages. The first stage is a cold with fever and pneumonia, which are very similar to the symptoms of the flu. The second stage is falling into a coma. After about 5 to 7 days in the coma, the patient enters the third stage."
Mr. Yuan tapped the screen.
A male patient appeared on the screen, sometimes crying and sometimes laughing, his emotions fluctuating wildly.
Professor Yuan said: "Patients in the third stage will exhibit a series of subtle neuropsychiatric symptoms, with a completely reversed sleep-wake cycle and inattention. They are unable to read more than two lines of text, have complete amnesia about what they said just a second ago, and more typically exhibit emotionally driven behavioral inversions."
Yuan and the researchers frowned, unable to understand how this was done.
It's unbelievable that the patient has such severe neurological symptoms, but neither blood tests nor brain MRIs have shown anything abnormal!
In the first stage, a blood test will show an elevated white blood cell count.
In the second stage, the white blood cell count will gradually decrease, and the pneumonia will improve on its own within 3 to 5 days without any drug treatment.
Once the pneumonia has almost completely subsided, the patient enters the third stage. In this stage, routine blood tests, genetic testing, and all other available examinations come back normal. It's as if the patient has truly developed a mental illness.
But this is impossible!
The researchers were truly at a loss. They even conducted extremely detailed genetic testing on the patient, but still found no abnormalities.
How is this disease transmitted? Where did it originate?
If these two issues are not clarified, all the country's prevention and control measures will be less effective, or even have no effect at all.
Xinbao's technical reserves far exceed the level of the node world. After obtaining Lin Xiaohe's permission, she immediately took over the highest authority of the P3 laboratory and issued instructions one by one.
“We extracted cerebrospinal fluid from the patient and borrowed a TEM electron microscope from the Changhong Research Institute to observe the cerebrospinal fluid.”
Everyone stood there dumbfounded. What is a X-ray electron microscope?
Lin Xiaohe immediately called Changhong Research Institute and asked them to send the instrument over before explaining to everyone: "TEM is a microscope that uses an electron beam as a light source to observe the microscopic structure inside a substance. The optical microscopes we usually use use visible light and can only see things at the micrometer level, such as cells or bacteria, but ATM can achieve atomic-level resolution."
“When viewed through ETM, the cross-section of a single hair is like a giant football field, where you can clearly see the texture of every blade of grass.”
Everyone's mouths were agape in astonishment.
Our country has such wonderful things?!