Plague Doctor

On the night of the Lantern Festival, Gu Jun and Wu Shiyu left many beautiful memories.

But the next morning, there was another call. In this river view suite, they learned the latest bad news. The abnormal Tourette's syndrome has broken out in female children. The mode of transmission is unknown. The epidemic area is currently concentrated in Dongzhou City, and various hospitals have admitted 75 patients. Sick children will shout "Gu Jun" when they have a tic attack.

On the other hand, Xiao Ke Dou has no signs of illness yet, so I don’t know if there is any connection.

Is this a "little New Year's gift"? Gu Jun felt angry and had a splitting headache. Who is that guy...

"Dongzhou, over there in Dongzhou..." He was able to contact him naturally, "Someone wants me to go back there..."

Speaking of which, he hasn't been back to Dongzhou for a long time.

Before seven o'clock, the two left the hotel, ending this short but sweet world for the two of them, and returned to the Shenhai Tianji Bureau base and the turbulent outside world.

"Before I got sick, I always listened to bedtime stories." In the car on the road, Wu Shiyu thought of something, "Could they all be stories about monsters eating people?"

"That story told by the Smiling Buddha?" Gu Jun muttered, holding back his headache.

"Many fairy tales have this kind of plot." Wu Shiyu gave a few examples. "Little Red Riding Hood" has wolves eating people, "The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats" has wolves eating goats, and "The Giant Who Swallowed the Princess" has The giant eats the princess... "I wonder if this is what those children's parents told them."

Wu Shiyu may have guessed it right. The survey found that most patients had heard or read such stories within a week before the onset of the disease. The specific reason is unknown, but it seems that it is definitely related. This may be the pathogen.

The Bureau of Secrets immediately issued a notice requesting parents to stop telling such dark stories, as they are harmful to children's physical and mental health. Children should seek medical attention immediately if they develop symptoms of Tourette's syndrome. Cartoons with violent elements are also temporarily suspended. All broadcasts are suspended, and the resumption time has not yet been determined.

Whatever the Secret Bureau promulgates now, even if the reason is not stated, the people can guess that something is wrong, so they pay special attention to it.

After Gu Jun and Wu Shiyu returned to the base, they immediately went to the safe house to see Little Kedou. The child was safe and active.

But at this moment, the number of sick children admitted has exceeded 100, all of them are little girls aged 5-8.

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At the Third People's Hospital of Nanxiang City, the medical staff are busy. In one day, 15 sick children have been admitted here, and some test results have been obtained. No conventional pathogens were found in the samples of the patients. , the disease does not appear to be generally contagious.

MRI images ruled out brain abnormalities in the sick children; normal TSH levels ruled out hypothyroidism; normal serum copper and ceruloplasmin levels ruled out Wilson's disease...nor strep throat, drug-induced tics, or head trauma. , encephalitis, carbon monoxide poisoning, etc.

From a physiological diagnosis, this is Tourette's syndrome, so it is difficult to deal with and there is no way to start.

There is a hypothesis that Tourette's syndrome is an autoimmune disease of the nervous system, caused by dysfunction of the frontal lobe, thalamus and other brain areas.

This is something that is beyond the current level of human medicine. Even the Medical Department of the Tianji Bureau Headquarters, a brain scientist like Professor Ma Jun, can only prescribe some antipsychotic drugs and noradrenergic drugs to the patient. Give it a try.

Humanity's scientific level is very advanced, but its scientific level is very backward.

When it comes to the brain and nervous system, whether it's Gu Jun or a little girl of five or six years old, the famous doctors are at a loss.

The brain and pediatric experts at Nanxiang Third People's Hospital are also at a loss. Whoever can effectively treat Tourette's syndrome will be able to effectively treat many neurological disorders. That will not win one or two Nobel Prizes. What happened, created a new world of medicine that is unimaginable by today's people.

Despite this, they were busy all day long, trying their best, thinking, and coming up with ideas.

Liu Guolin also cheered up. After being scolded by Director Zhang in the morning, he didn't feel shameful and courageous. He just felt that he could no longer hang around like this. Even if he was socialized, he still had to struggle to be socialized slower and do more. Do something, do something good.

Perhaps inspired by him, or perhaps feeling sorry for those sick children, Yu Chunhui and Zhang Wenjun were particularly active today.

Director Zhang and the three of them were so busy that they did not have a formal lunch, but just ate a few pieces of bread. Now in the evening, there are more and more sick children, and the work cannot stop. However, the director saw that everyone was tired, so he asked them to take a break and have a meal. There were colleagues who took shifts.

Therefore, the four of them and several department colleagues walked to the hospital cafeteria together.

"The interval between the patient's tic attacks is a bit long." Director Zhang was still thinking on the way, with a thoughtful look on his fat face, "I had an attack in the morning, and it has been almost 12 hours now, and I haven't had a second attack yet... Although People with Tourette's syndrome have tic attacks that are arrhythmic, but generally not so long apart."

The road leading to the cafeteria had to walk through a forest road. They had been busy all day, and walking by these lush trees felt a little refreshing.

"Director, we know too little about the situation." Yu Chunhui really wanted to relax for a while, "We can't figure out anything even if we think about it."

"Hey, it's okay to be idle!" Director Zhang said dissatisfiedly, "If you have a daughter, think about your own daughter, and if you have relatives and children, think about your relatives' children..."

"Hey, why are girls being picked on to get the disease? These girls are really unlucky." Zhang Wenjun sighed, "I don't know what happened to the good ones."

Liu Guolin was about to say something when he suddenly noticed the swaying shadows of the trees around him. As soon as he instinctively looked up, he saw a shadow quickly covering the sky, and his heart suddenly started... Director Zhang and Yu Chunhui were next to him. Zhang Wenjun and others were stunned, screaming in surprise, running away...

The accident came so suddenly and so violently.

Another group of medical staff walking in the distance screamed and watched helplessly as a huge tree over there collapsed suddenly.

There was no typhoon and no rain. The old tree seemed to be rotten in the middle of the trunk. It tipped over and completely crushed a group of people passing by.

Among the people watching, a nurse was so frightened that she almost collapsed to the ground. Even though she had faced so many patients and rescue efforts, she had lost her soul at this moment.

She saw that the white coats were all pinned down by the big tree. The fat middle-aged man who was the leader was stabbed through the body by many thick branches. He was bleeding everywhere and he could not survive. A female doctor was stabbed by a big tree. The tree trunk crushed his waist, and another young male doctor's head was sliced ​​off by a large branch...

She recognized the young male doctor, Liu Guolin, who was a doctor in the emergency department of pediatrics.

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