The road from Africa to Europe

Chapter 140 Epidemic

It was her colleague, Dr. Mombe, who had just seen a patient.

The patient's body temperature is being tested, because the patient's family member said that the patient has a fever, so try the temperature.

After Ling Xiao came in, he just took out the thermometer and found that the patient had a high fever and was still coughing.

After Ling Xiao glanced at it, he instinctively told her that something was wrong and that there was a sense of danger, which was supposed to be impossible.

There is no life-and-death battlefield here, unless she thinks it through and then walks over quickly to take a closer look at the patient.

It was found that the patient sitting there looked a little dull, and his eyes were a little red. When Mombe asked questions, he almost didn't answer, and his facial expression was blank.

It was as if there was a mask on this man's face, which looked very frightening. After Ling Xiao saw it clearly, he naturally paid more attention to this patient who arrived at noon.

And the one who answered Dr. Mengbei's question was the person who sent the patient. He was speaking with some stumbles, and Ling Xiao knew that the patient was some distance away from the hospital, which was a village hundreds of miles away.

After his brother Robin fell ill, he had a hard time getting to a hospital.The reason why I brought the patient a long way to the hospital was because I heard that the hospital has a medical team to aid Africa with superb medical skills.

Following Dr. Mombey, he began to carefully understand the patient's medical history. The man said that the patient had been ill for a few days. At first, his eyes hurt, and then he had a headache.

Hearing this, Ling Xiao's hairs stood on end, because the symptoms of this patient were very familiar, and they were similar to the so-called filovirus outbreak.

Just don't know the patient is Marburg virus?Or Ebola?No wonder she felt quite dangerous just now.

In fact, no matter what kind of filovirus it is, it is a virus that is difficult to deal with. It is highly contagious and has a high fatality rate.

Although Ling Xiao was somewhat prepared when he set foot on this continent, he might encounter these powerful viruses.

But when I actually encountered it, I still felt a little bit of fear, because the filovirus is too difficult to deal with.

At this moment, she couldn't help but think of one thing: Did the original owner also suffer from this epidemic?

The thought is quickly thrown aside because the problem at hand is the most important one.

If it is really a so-called level [-] virus.

I'm afraid that there will be many problems in various aspects of this place.

For example, public health is relatively weak, and there is a possibility of overturning in the event of an epidemic.

African villages are somewhat similar to ancient villages in Kyushu in terms of population structure.

That is, the villagers gathered behind a village, most of them are relatives.

Every family has the relationship between seven aunts and eight aunts, and the relationship is very close, which means that the number of people who may be infected is higher.

Another reason is that maybe because this is a tropical place, water is sometimes lacking. The family in the village likes to wash their hands in a basin, which saves water.

Ebola virus and Marburg virus are often transmitted through bodily fluids, which increases the risk of washing hands in the same basin.

At this time, Ling Xiao tried to recall the difference between the Marburg virus and the Ebola virus.

Both belong to filoviruses, and the virus structure is basically the same, but the antigens are different.

The antibodies produced are different, and the lethality of the two is lower than that of Marburg virus.

In the early stage of the disease, the appearance of the two diseases is also very similar.

Also high fever, chills, muscle pain.

Really can't come out for a while.

This feature is also somewhat like a malaria attack.

Of course, there are many differences between malaria and filoviruses.

She glanced at the patient, and the aborigines didn't look very strong.

But compared with the white race and the yellow race, their physical fitness is the best.

Many aborigines have long legs, and many people are relatively slender.

It's just that the patient is wearing a lot of clothes at the moment, and he is still shivering because of the high fever.

When Ling Xiao was observing, Dr. Mombe was also judging the patient's illness. After all, many illnesses were very similar.

As a local, he ran back after graduating from college and wanted to do his best for his hometown, but found that his level was not strong enough.

When the medical aid team to Africa arrived, he was overjoyed. He had a good teacher to guide him. He worked hard to learn knowledge and wanted to become a respectable doctor.

After lunch today, most departments can rest, but the emergency room is still open. He came to see the doctor after eating, but these two people came. After Mombe received the doctor, he first asked the patient and found that the patient thinking is very slow.

Fortunately, because the person next to him was from a village, he was able to answer most of the questions. He was busy recording the medical records, and he was relieved to see Ling Xiao coming.

As a doctor, he couldn't determine what the disease was for a while, who made the various diseases appear in this continent so many, or was it the only one.

Then another colleague can help to judge what the disease is, so that the patient can be relieved faster and better.

At this moment, Ling Xiao glanced at the patient. The distance between them and the doctor was not too far, and then he looked at Dr. Mengbei's mask hanging by his ear.

With a bit of sternness in Ling Xiao's eyes, he asked directly: "Dr. Mombe, why don't you wear a mask?"

Now the Ebola virus is said to have mutated, and it is possible that droplets can also spread.

The Marburg virus is also the same transmission channel, spittle flying around while speaking.

It is possible to get infected, knowing that the Ebola virus favors the eye area.

While treating illnesses and saving lives, we must also ensure our own safety.

Dr. Mombe turned his head and glanced at Ling Xiao when he heard the words.

I don't know why her voice is so harsh.

"Ah!" Mombe quickly took it.

After all, masks are to protect doctors.

He is very clear about the seriousness, so he is obedient and obedient.

He then asked, "Doctor Ling, what do you think?"

Although he didn't know what was going on, he felt that his colleagues had ideas.

Ling Xiao looked at the stupefied patient, and said, "Let's do an examination first, draw blood."

As soon as Dr. Mengbei heard this, he issued a blood test form, but Ling Xiao knew that the patient could not be released.

He said to Mi Lu, "Call someone to send a set of blood drawing equipment and Ebola virus quarantine test strips."

While talking, Ling Xiao pulled Mi Lu away from the patient, and after Mi Lu heard it clearly, she looked at the patient with a bit of fear in her eyes.

As a person in the medical profession, she understands the horror of this very well, and it is precisely because she understands the horror of that virus that she is afraid.

"There is no way, it can only be the three of us. If they are allowed to spread again, it will be a catastrophe. I will notify the hospital to prevent patients who come again from entering here." Ling Xiao looked at Mi Lu and said.

After hearing this, Mi Lu closed her eyes for a moment, opened her eyes again, and said in a trembling voice: "Doctor Ling, I know the priorities. People who have been in contact with this patient are not allowed to go out."

Ling Xiao glanced at her, the corners of his mouth turned up, and he patted her on the shoulder lightly, "It's good that you know, I hope we will all get through this."

After she finished speaking, she closed the door of the emergency room from the inside, called to notify of the possible epidemic, and sent special testing equipment.

First, someone brought blood test strips and test strips, Ling Xiao opened the door a little bit, and got the test strips and blood test strips.

At this moment, Dr. Mombe felt that something was wrong, and his colleagues seemed to have confirmed the patient's condition.

Ling Xiao walked quickly to the patient, disinfected with iodine, and began to draw blood from the vein.

During the whole process, the patient was dumbfounded, completely different from him before.

The person who sent him here felt that the atmosphere was not very good and there was a problem.

He kept staring at Ling Xiao and Mi Lu.

When pulling out the needle, Ling Xiao paid attention.

Doesn't appear to be bleeding profusely yet.

But some plaques have started to appear on the face.

It's just that his skin is darker, so it's not so obvious.

The result can be known within 15 minutes after using the test strips. In case of emergency, she uses three test strips.

Let Mi Lu get ready to observe the condition of the test paper.

Mi Lu was trembling a little, and her legs were weak.

But still try to do things.

Dr. Mombe knew something was wrong.

He looked at Ling Xiao, wanting to see what his colleague meant.

Ling Xiao didn't look at him, but at the patient and his family.

She solemnly asked the patient's family members, "Are there any patients like him in the village?"

"What animals has the patient been in contact with? For example: fruit bats, monkeys, chimpanzees and other animals."

Hearing Ling Xiao's question, the patient's family thought for a while, and he said, "We don't know if we have been in contact with those animals."

"However, not long after Robin's son died, the child was cursed by the devil and died beyond recognition."

When Ling Xiao heard it, what?demon?Are there demons in this world?But she didn't say it directly, and when Dr. Mombe wanted to say something, Ling Xiao glanced at him, and he quickly started recording.

Ling Xiao glanced at Mengbei, and found that he understood what he meant, and then said with a little surprise: "The devil? Why do you think that the child's death was cursed by the devil?"

"The child suddenly had a lot of red spots on his body. Before we were ready to send him to see a doctor, he bled all over his body and died not long after."

After Ling Xiao heard this, he felt that the possibility of Ebola virus increased, and of course it might be Marburg virus. The two are very similar in many ways.

As for the probability of hemorrhagic fever is very low, although many symptoms of hemorrhagic fever are consistent with Ebola and Marburg virus.

However, hemorrhagic fever is not transmitted between humans, but is transmitted to humans through rats.

Unless both people are infected by rats, the father and son will get sick.

Although the possibility is relatively low, as a doctor, you still have to ask.

This is the quickest way to know of a possible condition.

The man was a little anxious at the moment.

Because of a series of questions from the doctor.

It made him feel that something was wrong, but he didn't dare to move when facing Ling Xiao.

Dr. Mombe, who was on the sidelines, heard Ling Xiao ask, "Are there a lot of mice in your place?"

Rats can transmit plague and hemorrhagic fever, which must be paid attention to.

Houses in African villages are generally soil-planted houses, which allows rats to enter and exit ordinary people's homes.

If it is a reinforced concrete house, there are generally few things like mice.

"There are mice, but I can't catch them all. There are so many of them," said the man.

Follow Ling Xiao to ask how these two people came here.

Even let Dr. Mombe record them one by one.

After asking these questions one by one.

Her question made the patient's family feel uneasy.

Doctor Mombe didn't quite understand either, when Ling Xiao intervened to ask questions.

He was a little dazed, why did Dr. Ling ask these questions?

It's just that after hearing it, the more it feels wrong, now he grasps Ling Xiao's train of thought.

Rats, fruit bats, monkeys, and chimpanzees seem to have been specifically mentioned not long ago.

It was his hands that trembled. As a human being, he is naturally a little scared when he knows that he may face a disease.

As the fourth-level virus is the most severe infectious disease known, the virus is so fierce that it does not give the human body's defense system enough time to conquer all of them.

Patients will die. During the last outbreak, many patients died after being admitted to the hospital for three days. What will happen to them this time?

After he glanced at the calm Ling Xiao, his mood gradually stabilized, and his trembling fingers became normal.

As a doctor who came to aid Africa from a foreign country, isn't he suffering from the epidemic just like him?

From the first day of studying medicine, he understood that the path of a doctor is not easy.

As a healer, you are most likely to fall under the attack of the disease.

Because patients who come to seek medical treatment come from all over the world.

There are also various viruses brought in.

Fight on the front line.

Meaning the doctor is the one most likely to be infected.

But every doctor knows this possibility when he goes to work.

They still take this position without hesitation.

Since I am in this position.

He can only accept this possibility.

"Doctor Ling." Mi Lu said, her voice trembling.

Her complexion was not very good-looking, and the test strips proved that it was Ebola virus.

Fortunately, when she was observing, she adopted the most basic epidemic prevention measures and took certain precautions.

But she remembered that when the patient came in, as a nurse, she stepped forward to help her. Is it possible to be infected?

The more she thought about it, the more frightened she felt, and her voice became more trembling because of overcompensation.

Even though he had been mentally prepared for a long time, he was still terrified at the moment.

Ling Xiao had already heard it, and she walked quickly to the other side.

The test results came out.

Then it should be reported to the captain.

Because it has to be reported to the health department of this country.

Know that there is a whole lot of work out there to do, to remedy.

For example, the corpses of children whose patients have died also need to be handled specially.

And what about that village, will more people get sick?These are all problems that need to be solved.

At this moment, the hospital has already acted, they have been notified, and now they are talking about the Ebola virus.

"Xiao Ling, how is it?" The captain was blocked outside the door, Ling Xiao walked to the other side of the door and said, "I have confirmed that it is Ebola with test strips, is there another place to confirm it?"

"Yes." The captain said, he was nervous. As the captain, he not only had to pass medical skills, but also was responsible for the safety of the team members.

The current Ebola outbreak means that all medical staff in this hospital are on the verge of life and death.

Especially Xiao Ling and the other two medical workers, who are in direct contact with patients.

They didn't know they were dealing with Ebola.

It is possible to be infected in the first place.

The captain felt a headache.

Rather he met.

I don't want Xiaoling to meet him either.

This is the only child in the Ling family.

If you get sick after being infected here.

Then it means that there may be no one in the Ling family.

Fortunately, it is not [-]% fatal, and there is a vaccine.

The captain remembered that they had all been vaccinated before, so they were somewhat guaranteed.

Of course, the vaccines given are not [-]% guaranteed immunity, because the virus will mutate.

Some people's autoimmune system is not very sensitive, that is, the virus vaccine does not have much effect.

But the captain knew that sometimes the more frightened he was, the faster he would die, so he said, "Xiao Ling, don't worry, we've all been vaccinated, and we'll be fine."

"Well, I know, but other patients have not been vaccinated, so we still have to pay attention in the hospital."

It was only then that Mi Lu and Mombe on the side remembered that they had already received several vaccines.

Among these vaccines is the Ebola vaccine?After thinking about it, it seems that there is.

When they first fought, they didn't care.

Thinking about it now is a lifesaver.

It was too scary just now.

Simply forget about it.

Now that I was reminded, I remembered that I had called.

It's better to work with *Chinese doctors.

A boulder that was pressing in my heart was suddenly lifted.

Mi Lu and Mombe felt their whole bodies relaxed.

(End of this chapter)