"Cough, cough..."

The night was hazy, and the sound of coughing kept coming from the wards and echoed in the corridors of the hospitalization department.

The facilities of the town hospital are simple, and the isolation ward where Shen Haoxuan is located is not a real isolation ward, but a common ward.

There were three hospital beds, both of which were empty, so he lay on one of them, and had a needle on the back of his hand and a few bottles of drip. There was no TV in the ward, but fortunately his cell phone was not taken away, and the Internet signal was OK, so he could still play with his cell phone to relieve boredom.

Shen Haoxuan pressed his phone with both hands and sent a message to his bad friend Liu Hui on WeChat:

"It's really unlucky, pneumonia, I'm quarantined."

"I was going to the general ward, but the doctor suddenly said I needed to be isolated, and even my parents were isolated."

"It must be that uncle on the bus that infected me. I may have to stay in the courtyard for several days. I hope I can catch up with the city's comic exhibition on Saturday, but I have no choice."

After a long time, Liu Hui didn't even come back.

Shen Haoxuan's cough became more and more uncomfortable. He had been taking the drip for more than half an hour. The fever seemed to have not subsided, and the cough became even worse...

He checked the Moments that Deng Nuotong posted today again: "The next stop at Normal University, thank you for the past, look forward to the future, come on!"

"Haha, cough..." Shen Haoxuan couldn't help laughing as he looked at it, feeling that his health was much better. He used to look forward to spending a few more days during the summer vacation, but now he hopes that the university will start school quickly. At this time, his phone was shocked by WeChat. When he saw that it was Liu Hui:

"Oh no, I started coughing in the evening, and I'm having a fever of 39 degrees now."

"Maybe you have been infected with pneumonia? No?"

"My mother got me cold medicine. Do you want to go to the hospital now?"

Looking at these messages, Shen Haoxuan felt sorry for his friends and muttered uneasy, "I'm infected?" Apart from Liu Hui, there are no one else, right?"

He thought of his parents, other friends, and so many people at the comic convention...

Don’t think about it. Shen Haoxuan coughed and told himself that there is no such great contagion, and SARS won’t be able to do it either.

It's just pneumonia. The doctor can handle it. It's time to get better after staying in the hospital for a few days.

Shen Haoxuan pressed his phone and replied: "Come to the hospital and blame me. When we get ready, I will treat you to a meal."

...

The 30th case, the 40th case, the 50th case.

If it weren't for the fact that Jiangxing Town Hospital did not have so many patients and had a large number of vacant wards, it would have been impossible to deal with the outbreak of the epidemic tonight. But every patient had to be isolated separately, and the ward would still not be enough. Every member of the hospital was busy that night.

The disease control department issued an order to block the hospital. Patients suspected of being infected can come in, but no one can leave here.

"Hey, Xiaolin, you should pay attention to the tenth patient when it appears."

Zhao Yutao changed his tone and was wearing a triple mask. He looked for opportunities to slip out of the emergency room from time to time, not wanting to contact the patient.

Huang Lin ignored him. Although she also wore multiple masks, she stayed in the emergency room and took time to call college classmates and teachers to ask for insights.

The teacher gave her a way of thinking, could it be "Legazolid pneumonia"?

Not to mention town-level hospitals, even in the Grand Third-League Hospital, Legion disease is often misdiagnosed as common pneumonia first. Because this is not a common disease, ordinary doctors usually lack understanding of it. Moreover, the clinical manifestations of Legion disease are complicated and routine examinations lack specificity. Serological tests are required to check Legionella antibodies to confirm it.

"League's disease." Huang Lin looked at some literature on the Internet. It was a bit similar, but not completely similar. The patient's condition developed too fast.

Some news made her extremely uneasy. A while ago, there was a Legion disease outbreak in many cities around the world.

Huang Lin immediately reported this possibility to the hospital's infectious disease department, and only then did she know that there were prevention and control documents earlier than that that disease control had conveyed to be careful of Legionnaires' disease. However, prevention and control documents always follow one after another, prevention and control work has been done, and the hospital's air conditioning and refrigeration system has been cleaned.

Legion disease often breeds and breaks out in hospitals, but the first patient Wang Guoxin last came to see a doctor several years ago, and he was not infected in the hospital.

At 21:45 pm, an hour or ten minutes later, an expert group sent by the municipal disease control administration to conduct epidemiological investigations arrived.

The hospital infection department, which was greeted by the hospital lobby, was stunned. The head of the hospital, He Feng, Team He, Deputy Team Leader Li Wen and the others were both wearing white protective suits on their bodies and a comprehensive respiratory protective device, with no skin exposed at all.

Then everyone in the emergency room also saw it, and Zhao Yutao quickly put on two more masks.

Huang Lin is mentally prepared, and people who are on the disease control system also suspect that the Legion is sick and airborne...

After meeting, He Feng and Huang Lin talked about the patient's condition while walking towards the isolation ward area. They first went to see Wang Guoxin. His condition continued to deteriorate and he had symptoms of being confused. Just now, a large ball of blood phlegm was bursting out, and a strong smell of blood and rotten smell spread throughout the ward.

"None of these medical waste can be treated as ordinary treatment." He Feng specifically ordered the hospital's infectious disease department.

After seeing several patients, especially Shen Haoxuan, he confirmed that this was an epidemic outbreak.

"Comic Exhibition?"

After Shen Haoxuan was infected, he participated in a comic exhibition with more than 3,000 tourists, which made He Feng and the others feel even more upset.

He Feng hurriedly made several calls, demanding that the CDC take it seriously, upgrade the epidemic control work, and apply for a temporary control and blockade of Jiangxing Town.

But he knew that time was too hurrying, but there were too few test results supported, and it was late at night, so the efficiency would not be very high. If it weren't for the frequent occurrence of Legion's disease around the world recently and even larger ones had documents on it, his words would be immediately called back.

Now because he reported it as a suspected Legion disease, Huang Lin, the doctor on duty, also had this opinion, and the disease control and various departments became nervous.

Is it Legion disease? Or is it another pneumonia?

It is too late to use serum for antibody testing, and it takes one or two weeks to produce antibodies in the patient's body; and the bacterial cultures in the town hospital are even longer.

However, in recent years, nucleic acid amplification technology has matured, and the cognition of microorganisms has shifted from external structural characteristics to internal genetic structural characteristics, and detection has also shifted from biochemical and immune methods to genetic testing. Preliminary testing can be completed quickly and effectively deal with such public health emergencies.

However, the town hospital has limited conditions and does not have a PCR laboratory. Either the samples are transported out or the equipment is transported in.

As early as on the way to come, He Feng applied to transport PCR equipment into Jiangxing Town.

It was also because of his superiors' emphasis on Legion disease that he quickly approved his request.

In the early morning, a batch of instruments and equipment finally arrived at the town hospital, and a group of testing technicians arrived together, all wearing protective clothing. After everyone set up PCR equipment in a small laboratory in the hospital, they immediately used 22 respiratory pathogen nucleic acid testing kits for rapid screening.

Whether it is a popular virus, parainfluenza virus, coronavirus, Legionella pneumoniae, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, etc., it can be measured with its DNA.

It was also at this time that Li Wen, who was in charge of guiding the medical work, hurried into the laboratory, and his face looked ugly under the breathing mask.

"What's wrong?" He Feng asked, knowing that something was wrong in his heart.

"Doctor Huang Lin has symptoms of coughing." Li Wen said in a cold voice, "Another Dr. Zhao Yutao and several nurses in the emergency department also showed symptoms."

He Feng's brows frowned...Doctor Huang Lin has only 6 hours since he started on duty. This onset time is even shorter than the average 36-hour incubation period of non-pneumonia Legion disease...

This entire hospital is an epidemic area.

Although PCR technology is fast, it is relatively speaking. From the early morning to the next morning, everyone in the laboratory was busy and waiting.

Not a virus, not a streptococcus, not Chlamydia...

Legionella pneumophila! DNA structure shows that this is a new type of Legionella.

As soon as the test result was released, He Feng, who had not been asleep for a long time, was a little happy. The pathogen was within the known range. Although the disease started quickly and the disease developed rapidly, the epidemic should be calmed by the treatment and control of Legion disease. Although Legionella can spread the air, it relies heavily on aerosols as a carrier...

Just when He Feng was feeling glad, there was no warning. Because of the sudden sensation in his throat, he suddenly started coughing and his lungs became stuffy.

In an instant, He Feng stood in this small laboratory with a pale face and a little dizzy. All the experimental personnel around him were stunned.

"The third-level protective clothing does not work, and the third-level protective clothing does not work..."

He Feng murmured blankly, and suddenly a series of coughs broke out. At the same time, the sadness and fear surged out, which made him fall to the ground almost all at once.

Human-to-human transmission, air transmission.

Contagiousness can penetrate the third-level protective clothing...

Most of the tourists at the comic exhibition that Shen Haoxuan attended were infected.

The entire Jiangxing Town is an epidemic area.
Chapter completed!