crisis management game.

Chapter 46 Unknown Viruses
In the receiver, after Captain Neil delivered the news, he coughed twice and suddenly vomited.

Gu Ji stopped his hands suddenly, and hurriedly asked: "Captain Neil, are you also infected?"

"Well... I don't know, I just feel a headache, my face is a little hot, and my stomach is uncomfortable, like a cold."

Captain Neil replied truthfully.

Already ill!
This was beyond his expectation. Theoretically speaking, the cruise ship cab is strictly controlled, and ordinary people are usually not allowed to enter and exit. The man in the brown hat has no chance to get close to the captain. How could he be infected?

Gu Ji frowned.

There are only two possibilities:

[-]. The source of the virus is not the brown hat man;
[-]. The virus spreads into the cab of the cruise ship through other transmission methods, such as air transmission!

He looked up at the air-conditioning outlet on the ceiling of the room, and his heart became more and more serious.

Originally, Gu Ji asked Captain Neil to turn off the central air-conditioning system, just to prevent problems before they happened.

Because of severe hemorrhagic fever diseases, such as Marburg and Ebola of the Filoviridae family; such as dengue fever of arboviruses, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, most of them are not respiratory viruses, and it is difficult to treat them like influenza viruses. Generally spread through the air.

But there are exceptions.

For example, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, also known as hantavirus, has been shown to be infectious through the respiratory tract.

However, the severe fatality rate of hantavirus is only 1% to 5%. It mainly damages the kidneys, which is far less serious than other hemorrhagic fevers. The corpse of the dead white-haired old man has extremely terrifying symptoms; the most important thing is that hantavirus It cannot be transmitted from person to person, but only through small rodents.

Among the remaining virulent viruses, Marburg virus has been reported to infect experimental animals with aerosol, but the relevant human infection cases have not been proved by the laboratory.

"Captain Neil, immediately keep other people in the cab away from you. Attention the medical staff and cleaning staff. Prioritize the disinfecting of the cab and engine room. Check the fever of all the pilots, helmsmen, and engineers. Quick!"

Gu Ji's tone was obviously more urgent than the moment when the virus broke out concentratedly just now.

To know.

Once the driving and power department of the cruise ship collapses, the ship will be completely reduced to an isolated island on the sea, isolated from the world, and everyone can only wait for death!
"I'm Katsunobu Tamura, Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare. Is your Xiangzhou Medical and Health Bureau prepared for an emergency response to this incident? Can you contact your leaders for me?"

Hearing that the virus had infiltrated the cab, the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare finally couldn't bear it anymore, and spoke first, with a deep voice.

It is reasonable for the top leader of a country's health system to request a direct dialogue with Gu Ji's immediate superior.

But the problem is, how can he have any leadership.

His identity was all made up by him.

Gu Ji raised his eyelids halfway, and his brain was running fast:

"Sorry, we are only in the initial stage of exploration. We currently know that there are two cases of infection; the first patient is a 41-year-old male with a history of hyperuricemia and hyperlipidemia. When his family found out, he was already seriously ill. He lost blood and died 16 hours after admission."

"The second patient is a 38-year-old healthy man. When he was admitted to the hospital, he had acute fever, pain all over his body, and red papules on his face and limbs. The doctor suspected hemorrhagic fever. Laboratory tests showed leukopenia and lymphopenia. treat."

"Through tracing the source, we learned that the two patients had boarded the Platinum Star cruise ship successively. The laboratory found an unknown virus in their blood samples, and they are being sent to the Xiaguo Jiangzhou Institute of Virology for inspection. Therefore, Xiang The state CHP will never know more than I do in the field!"

These words were spoken by him after logical reasoning and careful consideration.

Gu Ji first demonstrated with examples, using the cases to confirm his legal identity in investigating the virus, and these cases were all obtained by him from observing the infected people on the ship before, half true and half false.

Then use one death and one injury to increase the death rate, increase the urgency, and emphasize that the virus is on the way, there is no test result, and the leaders don't know anything.

Therefore, if you want to save the cruise ship as soon as possible, you can only cooperate with him.

really.

Katsunobu Tamura was silent for a while, seeming to admit the professionalism of his two dictations, "Miss Jiang, what do you think of the current situation in the cruise ship?"

"It's very serious, with 1 death, 3 severe cases, and more than 60 mild cases. The number of close contacts cannot be counted, and the number of people on the ship is huge, prevention and control is difficult, and medical resources are extremely limited. I'm afraid it won't last long. The point is."

Speaking of this, Gu Ji paused for a moment, glanced at Ito Mio next to him, and pursed his lips: "I haven't determined the source of the virus and the specific transmission method. In case the virus can be transmitted through the air, then..."

He didn't say the second half of the sentence, but Katsunobu Tamura, who was in the health system, also understood.

The routes of transmission of infectious diseases include food, water, air, direct contact, blood, body fluids, etc...

Among them, the transmission of blood and body fluids has certain limitations. Diet, water, and direct contact are all relatively easy to control, but air transmission is the most difficult to prevent. The gas exhaled by each person enters the body of other people, and the cycle goes on and on, not to mention there are Droplets from coughing and sneezing.

If measures are not taken in time, the pathogen will spread very quickly. Several major outbreaks in history were basically respiratory viruses.

This also means that if the virus can really spread through the air.

Gu Ji was completely out of control.

"I am currently on my way to the temporary emergency management investigation team. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is discussing to divert the cruise ship to the nearest South Korean port of Jeju Island. The specific situation has to wait for the communication between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and South Korea."

Katsunobu Tamura seemed to be in the car, and he spoke again, with a little more anxiety in his tone.

He is indeed the leader of the health system.

The key to this public health incident can be seen at a glance: personnel prevention and control!
There are too many restrictions on the personnel and materials in the cruise ship. Even if Gu Ji has a brain, he is just an ordinary person. There is no way to conjure people and things out of thin air. Only when the ship enters the port and lands can the government play a role, sending medical personnel and police troops , carry out strong deployment and control, and then extract the virus for laboratory comparison, and formulate an effective treatment plan.

"Jeju Island..."

While Gu Ji was muttering to himself, a map of East Asian waters appeared in his mind.

They departed from Kagoshima yesterday evening. Kagoshima is located at the southwest end of Japan's land, and their next destination is Xiangzhou, so the cruise ship sails all the way to the southwest.

And Jeju Island is just in the southwest corner of South Korea, in the middle of Dongying and Xiaguo waters.

Although it is not necessarily the closest seaport land to the cruise ship, it is definitely a more suitable choice than returning to Kagoshima or going straight to Xiaguo.

because.

In addition to being a tourist attraction, Jeju Island also has a Korean naval base on it!

(End of this chapter)