Chapter 311 Still a familiar smell

"Jack? Why are you here?" This female medical doctor in her forties recognized someone at a glance.

Obviously, in the biochemical terrorist attack using the hemorrhagic fever virus in Los Angeles, the scene where Jack went mad at the end and went straight up and knocked the female terrorist unconscious with a head hammer left a deep impression on her.

"Wow, have you become the FBI?" Dr. Morgan offered to shake hands with Jack.

Jack didn't expect to meet an acquaintance in Maryland, so he greeted her very warmly.

Jiejie led everyone into a conference room, closed the door and closed the blinds, thus blocking out the noisy people outside.

"This is Linda Kimura, the director of our CDC Special Pathogens Department." Dr. Morgan introduced a middle-aged Asian woman beside her to everyone.

He is not tall and has an unattractive appearance. He is probably in his early forties. He looks smart and capable, and his face does not wear the stereotypical Asian makeup that is common in European and American workplaces.

A person of Japanese descent, if you don't judge from her surname, probably only Jack among the people present can tell her origin at a glance, which is also a special skill of the Siris people.

After the simple greetings, Dr. Kimura was introduced to everyone, and Dr. Morgan left in a hurry, looking very hurried. Jack didn't know her current position, but it seemed that she was obviously higher than the director.

"I'm sorry to meet you under such circumstances." Dr. Kimura is obviously an immigrant of more than two or three generations, and he doesn't have the stinky habit of bowing every now and then in his childhood.

"A total of 25 people were admitted to the emergency department last night in and around Annapolis after 2: p.m. yesterday, all around the local quiet hill park."

"Yes, but a certain level of protection can only be produced a week after vaccination, and it will take at least two weeks to fully reach the level of protection." Dr. Kimura replied very quickly.

Even for more serious direct lung infection anthrax, there are a lot of mature treatment options, and it is impossible to have such a high mortality rate.

"Anthrax is not that lethal." Rhett said with a frown.

"After confirming that it was Bacillus anthrax, antibiotic treatment was given for the first time, but it had no effect. The surviving patients have been transferred to the special ward of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center."

The treatment of ordinary skin anthrax infection is not difficult, especially if antibiotic treatment is intervened in the early stage, a series of antibiotics such as penicillin can deal with this thing.

Jack raised his eyebrows, knowing in his heart, what the hell is the weapon-grade strain from the laboratory, and the anthrax bacillus in nature is not difficult to deal with.

"This strain is OK." Dr. Kimura confirmed concisely.

"Also, we cannot yet confirm whether the original anthrax vaccine is still effective against this strain."

"Those potential large target sites, airports, shopping malls, bus stops, etc., how should we deal with them?"

"Have you tried all the commonly used antibiotics?" A forensic doctor is also a doctor. Although Jack talks about it every day, he still knows the basic medical principles.

Dr. Kimura glanced at Jack and gave an affirmative answer.

There are some things that everyone knows well, not all of them are here, so they are much more cautious when speaking.

"Keep the public informed?" Emily's eyes widened.

"Is General Whitworth coming here?" Rossi obviously knew the door.

"So what's going on?" Rhett carried his small satchel again today, probably because he had to catch a flight all night, and looked bleary-eyed and haggard.

Jiejie took out a stack of information and began to perform her duties, starting with a general introduction to the situation and the progress of the case.

"Is there no vaccine?" Emily rubbed her arm.

“If 50 pounds of anthrax spores are sprayed upwind of a city with a population of 112 along a two-kilometer line, 12 people will eventually become infected and 9 people will die. Even livestock and wild animals will not be spared. "

Reid conducts science popularization for everyone every day, but this time the content of his science popularization makes people shudder.

"Are you sure it's anthrax?" Jack flipped through the pathological photos one by one in the file. Black gangrene on the skin is a typical clinical symptom, but experts have the final say on the specific situation.

"Since the victim was infected in an open place like a park, it shows that the attackers most likely used the method of dry powder dispersal."

Because Bacillus anthracis kills by relying on the toxins it produces during its reproduction process, the reproduction rate determines the rate at which toxins accumulate in the human body.

He paused and then said, "Based on the current toxicity of this strain, this number is likely to increase several times."

Seeing that everyone was silent, Emily changed the topic, "So, what is our current coping strategy?"

"Hurry up and start." Hotchner urged, his face looked a little ugly. It was obvious that he was one of the first people to see certain reports.

Jack silently rolled his eyes, didn't ask further, and turned to look at Hotchner, "So what does Fort Detrick say?"

Hotchner nodded, "Yes, he and his people will be responsible for the control and elimination of the infected areas and the analysis of the strains."

With so many deaths and such rapid development, there is only one possibility. This anthrax bacillus is not extracted from nature, but has been artificially optimized. It is not only immune to most antibiotics, but also reproduces at an astonishing speed.

"Usually, the lethal dose of inhaled anthrax is between 1 and 2 spores, and every 1g of Bacillus anthrax powder contains more than 1 trillion anthrax spores."

"We will work with military scientists at Fort Detrick," Hotchner replied.

"In less than 10 hours, the first death occurred. Now it's just 9 a.m. the next day, and there are already 12 people dead."

"Block information and keep it strictly confidential from the media." Hotchner meant not to deal with it.

The death case occurred within ten hours, and nearly half of the 25 infected people died in less than 24 hours, which is a proper level of biological and chemical weapons.

"This is Maryland." Jack, who had already experienced a biological crisis, explained for Hotchner.

Many people may not know Annapolis, but they know that this place is only 50 kilometers away from Washington, D.C. It’s just a matter of kicking the accelerator.

The threat of directly spreading dry powder of Bacillus anthracis spores is greater than the method of sending letters by mail in 01. Once it is announced by the media, it will most likely cause a large-scale exodus of surrounding residents.

Then, riots and zero-dollar shopping will naturally follow. Maybe the number of people who will die in the riots will be much more than the casualties caused by these one or two small-scale biochemical attacks.