Chapter 578 Cracks on the Skin, Expert Consultation
A relieved smile appeared on Professor Hawking's face.
The transmission route of the unknown fungus that appeared this time needs further study. After Li Quan was tested, he was not infected. At this time, it was his instinct to just run away.
Especially when the condition of the three antique dealers who were initially infected worsened, most people would have chosen to flee at the first opportunity.
At this time, Li Quan took the initiative to ask to check on the conditions of the three patients. This is the true love of a doctor.
If doctors retreat when faced with terrible unknown diseases, then no one will be able to conquer the disease.
Because doctors are professionals who know how to treat various diseases.
Professor Hawking's daughter-in-law also looked at Li Quan with admiration.
The expressions of the others when they looked at Li Quan were also full of respect.
There are no heroes who fall from the sky in this world, only ordinary people who stand up.
"Comrade Li Quan, wait!"
The leader of the CDC called Li Quan.
"Is there anything I can do for you?" Li Quan turned around and looked at the man curiously.
He knew that he was at least a top figure in the medical system of the Magic City and had a certain status.
But when we arrived in a place like the capital.
Beijing officials are everywhere.
Just grabbing someone on the street might turn out to be a high-ranking official.
Li Quan, the director of a tertiary hospital, is really not up to standard.
"The transmission route of this infectious disease has not yet been fully determined, so you should still pay attention to your own safety. I'll have someone get you a full-body protective suit."
After saying that, he waved to a staff member from the CDC.
He asked the other party to give Li Quan a set of protective clothing.
The man quickly brought over a set of protective clothing.
This kind of protective clothing requires help from others to put on, and it provides complete protection for the whole body.
It was also because of the noble medical ethics and courage demonstrated by Li Quan that the leader of the CDC wanted to protect him from the bottom of his heart.
Li Quan changed into protective clothing and looked up at the leader.
"Thank you for your concern!"
"You're welcome! Stay safe!"
The leader of the CDC warned.
"good!"
Li Quan did not waste any more time and followed the doctor from the Beijing First Hospital.
He was puzzled because this road did not seem to lead to the neurology ward.
"Comrade, where are you taking me? Aren't those three patients hospitalized in the neurology department?" Li Quan couldn't help but ask.
Wearing protective clothing, my speech is a little affected.
The sound was much weakened.
"Oh, that's right. After discovering that the disease could be transmitted to other people, the hospital's emergency response team immediately transferred the three people to the inpatient ward of the infectious disease department for isolation."
The young doctor was very polite to Li Quan.
If Li Quan had not discovered that the disease of the three antique dealers was a fungus and could be contagious to other people, the consequences would have been even more serious.
You know, the Beijing First Hospital has a huge number of patients, medical colleagues, pharmaceutical company staff, and medical department leaders coming here every day.
Once it spreads, one can imagine how serious the consequences will be.
Under the guidance of the doctor, Li Quan quickly rushed to the inpatient ward of the infectious disease department.
Compared with other departments, the protection, isolation and other measures here are more stringent.
"Ah, ah...let me go, let me go..."
"Assholes, you guys are a bunch of assholes..."
"Kill me, kill me..."
Even from outside, I could hear the shrill screams coming from the ward.
Li Quan found it very scary and entered the ward, only to see three antique dealers tied to the beds.
Blood was all over their faces.
Their hair had been violently torn off in patches, and their scalps were gone. Blood was flowing.
Some people's faces are swollen.
Or the forehead may be swollen or even broken.
Even so, after being tied up, they continued to struggle desperately and shout.
"Just now, after they woke up, they suddenly went crazy, pulling their hair, slapping themselves, and banging their heads against walls, bed edges and other hard objects. It took us a lot of effort to subdue them and tie their hands and feet."
The young doctor explained to Li Quan.
Because the man was also wearing protective clothing, Li Quan could not see his appearance, or even his work badge, and did not know the young doctor's name.
"Long Yan, you're here just in time. I asked you to report to Director Huo. Is there any result?"
There were several medical staff wearing protective clothing standing in the ward.
The person who spoke should be the director of the infectious disease department or something like that.
Looks like a person of high status and authority.
It turned out that the young doctor who brought Li Quan here was called Long Yan.
"Director Huo has been diagnosed and unfortunately has also been infected with their disease. Many other people have been infected. After I reported this to Director Huo, he didn't have any good solutions."
When Long Yan reported this matter, his voice trembled a little.
The young doctor must have been filled with fear when faced with this terrible infectious disease .
Not to mention him, even Li Quan felt the same fear.
"Ah...you said Director Huo and the others were all infected?"
The doctor who asked the questions must have looked extremely frightened at this moment.
"Even Professor Huo can't help. What can we do?"
No one has experience or good treatment plans for this unknown disease.
The screams of the three patients became louder and louder.
Everyone was horrified when they heard this.
"Director Huang, by the way, this is Director Li Quan from Huier Hospital. He was the one who found out the cause of these three patients' illnesses. Just now, after hearing that the conditions of the three patients had worsened, he took the initiative to come and take a look."
Long Yan thought of Li Quan behind him and hurriedly introduced him to Director Huang.
"It's Dean Li, hello!" Director Huang's attitude was a little arrogant, but he still maintained superficial politeness.
Li Quan didn't care either.
After shaking hands with the other party, his eyes fell on the three tied patients again.
After careful observation, he soon made a new discovery.
Among the three patients, the youngest man in the middle is the most seriously ill.
Why do I say so?
Because many tiny cracks appeared on the surface of this man's skin.
There is no bleeding yet, and only the bright red tender skin deep in the cracks can be seen.
"Do you have a magnifying glass?" Li Quan asked.
“Yes, yes!”
Long Yan answered and handed a magnifying glass to Li Quan.
It seemed to be the magnifying glass that Li Quan had used in neurology before.
Everyone was wearing protective clothing, so their movements were inevitably a bit clumsy.
Taking the magnifying glass, Li Quan magnified the facial skin of the patient in the middle and observed it.
After twenty times magnification, he could see it more clearly this time.
The patient's skin was covered with spider-web-like cracks, not only on the face, but also on the neck, arms, and other parts of the body. There were tiny cracks.
No wonder this patient screamed the most miserably, constantly asking the medical staff to kill him.
The entire body's skin cracked, and you can imagine how painful it is.
It was probably like tens of millions of ants biting at the same time.
Li Quan had a bad feeling.
If these patients' conditions continue to worsen, will the degree of skin cracking increase further?
Even the epidermis peels off.
If this is true, then they are in big trouble.
"President Li, this is not an appreciation of a work of art. Can you really tell anything about it with just a magnifying glass?" Director Huang asked in a half-joking, half-sarcastic tone.
"Well, Director Huang will understand after taking a look!"
Li Quan handed the magnifying glass to Director Huang.
After the other party took it, he looked at the patient's body carefully.
Less than three seconds.
Director Huang let out a scream of "Ah!" and the magnifying glass in his hand fell to the ground. He stumbled as he stepped back and fell on his butt.
If I hadn't been wearing this protective suit, I would have been able to get up quickly.
But at this moment, he struggled several times and was unable to get up.
The medical staff nearby quickly worked together to help him up.
"Director Huang, are you okay?" Long Yan asked with concern.
"No, it's okay! The floor is a bit slippery. We need to ask the cleaning staff not to be lazy next time when cleaning." Director Huang was obviously frightened by the cracks on the patient's skin surface and fell.
Now he has found such a poor excuse.
I wonder if his face will turn red?
Li Quan sneered in his heart.
But for things like this, it's better to just understand it in your heart, there's no need to point it out.
Harsh words can hurt people like a cold wind in June.
Sometimes if you speak more kindly, you can have a wider path.
To offend others is often just to be careless in what you say, which eventually leads to hatred and making enemies.
"Director Li, what's wrong with the patient's skin?" Director Huang calmed himself down and then turned to look at Li Quan.
"If I'm not mistaken, the patients' skin cracks are probably caused by fungi. According to experimental research conducted by the disease control department, no drugs have yet been found to control the fungi they are infected with. A variety of drugs that inhibit or kill fungi have no obvious effect on them."
Li Quan looked at Director Huang with a serious expression.
"Director Huang, I suggest that you immediately ask your hospital's fungus doctors to consult together and find a way to deal with this fungus."
If it comes to dredging meridians, stopping bleeding, or resetting bones, Li Quan is good at it.
He doesn't have the ability to eliminate this unknown fungus.
Not to mention him, even the experts at the First Hospital in Beijing may not have such ability.
"Okay, I'll request a multi-department consultation immediately."
Director Huang's voice was trembling a little.
These three patients are now staying in his infectious disease department. They are like three bombs that may blow up the infectious disease department at any time.
He was also worried.
Since there was no particularly effective medicine to treat the three patients, no one dared to use medicine indiscriminately and could only let the patients scream and scream here.
In an office, most of the experts attending the meeting crawled out of their warm beds and rushed to the hospital for consultation.
"First of all, let me introduce you. This is Director Li Quan of Huier Hospital. He has extremely strong capabilities in the fields of Traditional Chinese Medicine and orthopedics." The hospital was able to highlight Li Quan's identity during the consultation, which was earned by Li Quan with his own strength.
But the Beijing No. 1 Hospital is very cunning.
There was no mention of the fact that Li Quan was the first to discover that the three antique dealers were infected with fungi.
Because at this moment's consultation, leaders from the CDC and official leaders from Beijing were present.
"Let me first give you a brief introduction to the specific events. A week ago, our hospital received three antique dealers who had returned from traveling abroad. When they came to the hospital for treatment, they showed signs of a disordered biological clock. They fell into a deep sleep during the day and could not be awakened no matter what. They would wake up at one in the morning, and then remain active until about five in the morning, and then fall into a deep sleep again.
After careful diagnosis and observation by Professor Hawking and several medical staff of our hospital, it was finally discovered that the three antique dealers were likely infected with an unknown pathogen.
At present, after collecting samples from patients for testing, the CDC can confirm that the patients are infected with a fungus.
And it is highly contagious.
Many of our hospital's neurology medical staff, including Professor Hawking, were unfortunately infected.
Just recently, the patient's condition suddenly worsened.
After waking up, he showed severe self-harm symptoms. After careful observation , he found countless tiny cracks on the patient's skin surface.
Now we invite everyone to come for a consultation, hoping that we can work out an effective treatment plan.
First of all, I would like to state that I have tried almost a dozen of the most commonly used antifungal drugs on the market, but none of them worked. "
The person who presided over this consultation should be a leader of the Beijing No. 1 Hospital.
Maybe even the dean.
This person's words are quite shameless.
Li Quan, the real hero, was directly hidden.
It was Li Quan who discovered the cause of the disease and the patient's skin cracks, but he turned all the credit into the doctors of our hospital.
Ultimately, it's all about profit.
A disease that Beijing No. 1 Hospital could not diagnose was easily diagnosed by a doctor from another hospital. How could they put their face on this?
It will also have a great negative impact on the reputation of Beijing First Hospital.
"Bacteria have survived on this planet for more than 3.5 billion years, fungi for more than 1 billion years, and our human history is only 65,000 years. Although humans have developed many antibiotics and antibacterial drugs, it does not mean that humans can definitely deal with fungi and bacteria.
We seem powerless when faced with some terrible super bacteria or fungi.
Since we have basically tried all the existing antibacterial and fungicidal drugs and found no effect, we might as well try a different approach.
For example, high temperatures can be used to kill fungi.”
The doctor who spoke is the director of the Fungal Research Center.
In terms of survival time, humans are not even a fraction of bacteria and fungi.
"But this unknown fungus is lurking in the patient's body. How can we kill it with high temperature?" asked the leader of the CDC.
yes.
If the fungi have not invaded the human body, you can try to kill them with fire.
But now the fungi have invaded the bodies of many patients, and if they are burned with fire, the patients will also be burned to ashes.
This is not allowed by domestic law.
"In addition to being afraid of high temperatures, fungi are also very sensitive to low temperatures, oxygen and other environments. Some anaerobic bacteria can be killed directly with oxygen." Someone else spoke.
This is a good idea.
There is strength in numbers, and the strength of Beijing No. 1 Hospital is beyond doubt.
It is definitely one of the best in the country.
"After our preliminary tests, this unknown fungus does not seem to be an oxygen-producing bacterium. However, we have not yet tested its sensitivity to high and low temperatures."
The leader of the CDC replied.
