Chapter 517 Marburg Virus
However, if you want to use the smallpox virus to cause trouble to the enemy, the probability of failure is too high.
After all, the smallpox virus has been conquered by people.
If a patient with smallpox appears in a certain area one day. The local hospital will take effective action as soon as possible to cut off the transmission chain first.
Then isolate the infected patients and track the people who may be infected by the patients for prevention and treatment.
Finally, vaccinate the people who may be exposed to the smallpox virus with smallpox vaccine.
The smallpox virus will be strangled in the cradle.
So Cheng Ling denied this speculation.
In addition to respiratory infectious viruses, smallpox virus, there is another virus that is also very scary.
That is the filovirus.
For example, Marburg virus or Ebola virus.
This type of virus is widely found in the corpses of animals or humans who died from infection with this type of virus, or in the blood, secretions, excrement, etc. of infected animals and humans...
It is transmitted by mucous membranes and broken skin.
Marburg virus can cause serious damage to almost all organs except lungs and bones, especially liver, kidneys, and lymphatic tissues. After infection, the liver becomes fragile, swollen, black, spleen congested, follicles disappear, and medulla becomes soft. Red pulp is damaged, lymphocytes are destroyed and significantly reduced, the nervous system is damaged, nodules appear, brain edema...
After people are infected with this virus, the mortality rate is as high as 25% in some developed countries with advanced medical levels, and as high as 100% in some developing countries with poor medical levels!
Moreover, Marburg virus has a characteristic that it is not resistant to high temperatures.
In an environment of 60 degrees Celsius, Marburg virus will lose its infectivity for more than one hour.
Now, it is winter!
Marburg virus is difficult to inactivate!
Cheng Ling's heartbeat slowly accelerated.
It is only a guessing stage at present.
She also found a mistake, a fatal mistake:
Before today, she had always focused her attention on the infection of the respiratory system, so she did not pay enough attention to the spread of other viruses.
How could such a cunning and brutal enemy carry out the task of eliminating humans in a single thread?
They can do it in parallel.
Cheng Ling first sent her speculation to Jiang's father.
[Cheng Xiaoling: At present, herpetic gingivostomatitis has broken out across the country. I am worried that this is the first step for the enemy to use biological weapons to attack us, open the mucous membrane, and then put in more deadly viruses. It is just my guess at present. I wonder if you can conveniently count the number of patients with oral ulcers in major hospitals across the country. What is the change compared with previous years? ]
[Jiang Zhenguo: Got it. Count it as soon as possible. ]
Jiang's father immediately attached great importance to it.
He ordered his men to assign tasks to major hospitals and ordered the statistics specialist to count the changes in the number of patients with oral ulcers and other diseases in hospitals across the country overnight.
After a day's filming, everyone washed up, got into bed, and soon fell into a sweet dream.
But Cheng Ling didn't sleep. She carried her computer bag and went to a wing room in the corner of the homestay where sundries were piled up.
She pulled the light cord and the dim light fell.
Cheng Ling blew away the dust on a bench next to her, sat down, opened her notebook, and placed it on her thighs.
She wanted to learn as much as possible about the most lethal viruses prevalent in the world - her knowledge of this part was not perfect.
In addition, she had to find out what kind of transportation method the enemy would use if they wanted to use a virus like Marburg to harm her country?
China's customs were notoriously strict.
It was not so easy to get through customs.
