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Chapter 610 Seeking Proof

Whether it is meningitis caused by bacteria or viruses, they all have a common feature-the involvement is limited to the meninges of the brain.There is enough space for growth and expansion here, with sufficient nutrients and a "territory" that is relatively easy to develop.

Creatures tend to expend the least amount of resources for the greatest expansion.This "high efficiency" trait works equally well for humans and microbes.

But what if Hoon's brain damage wasn't limited to the meninges, but went deep into other areas or even the white matter of the brain.Then, what Sun Lien and the others need to deal with is definitely not an ordinary "meningitis caused by an unknown pathogen".They can even directly rule out the possibility of common bacteria and viruses causing the disease.

"We should do another cerebrospinal fluid test." Hu Chunbo quickly made a decision, and turned to Hu Jia and asked, "Do they have a centrifuge here?"

"Yes." Hu Jia nodded, "There is a well-equipped testing laboratory here, and the testing doctors are still on duty—they didn't get sick."

Hu Chunbo and Sun Lien looked at each other, then nodded.The group of homeboys in the laboratory were not infected, which made the two of them firmer in their guess.

"However, the intracranial pressure of this group of patients is too high. It is risky to do cerebrospinal fluid puncture test." However, Hu Chunbo and Sun Lien's request for cerebrospinal fluid puncture test was rejected by Liu Tangchun. "He's already dying quickly, but if you take a cerebrospinal fluid, are you worried that their chances of brain herniation are not high enough?"

"But this examination is really important. If you want to kill them, the cerebrospinal fluid examination is essential." Hu Chunbo was also impatient, and he yelled at Liu Tangchun, "If you don't do the examination, everyone will die. Do the examination With a clear diagnosis, at least a few can survive!"

"You already have a direction?" Hearing this, Liu Tangchun couldn't help being a little interested, "I'm going to do a cerebrospinal fluid test, do you think you can definitely see pathogens in the cerebrospinal fluid?"

"It's hard to say if it's common, but a paraneck puncture should be fine. In fact, it's best to do a white matter biopsy, but the risk is too great, and you will definitely not agree." Hu Chunbo replied, "Captain Liu, please give me permission." , this is saving lives!"

"Fucking nonsense, why don't you split the brain open for a brain biopsy?" Liu Tangchun stared at Hu Chunbo, but before staring, he blinked at Sun Li'en first. "We are here to carry out humanitarian relief missions, and it is not necessary to find out what disease they have - it is enough to mean it, do you know what I mean?"

"Captain Liu, we are doctors. They are patients." Hu Chunbo blushed anxiously, and he looked at Liu Tangchun with an incredulous expression. With an idea, a direction, and even a certain diagnosis, how can you just do nothing and just make sense here?!"

Liu Tangchun has a very high reputation in the medical team, and because he usually handles things fairly and has a high level, he is basically the one who says nothing.Hu Chunbo dared to confront Liu Tangchun in order to save a few Americans with bad attitudes. Even Hu Jia felt that Hu Chunbo's attitude was a bit inappropriate.

After being silent for a few seconds, seeing Hu Chunbo's face getting redder and redder, Liu Tangchun suddenly laughed and said to Sun Li'en, "Look, I have a good eye, don't I?"

Sun Lien nodded with a smile. These days, fewer and fewer people dare to talk back to Director Liu.Especially for a few terminally ill patients, the doctors who dare to argue with Liu Tangchun are the few among the few.Doctors need to obey the orders of superior doctors, but they also need to resist the unreasonable orders of superior doctors.When to obey and when to resist is actually a very difficult question.

At least Hu Chunbo did a good job this time.

"The risk of performing a paraneck puncture on a patient is too high, and I still cannot agree." Liu Tangchun smiled again, and then said to the bewildered Hu Chunbo, "However, I have a solution."

"Two hours ago, a patient died of ineffective treatment." Liu Tangchun said to Hu Chunbo, "I have already talked with Dr. Iweala, and she agreed that we should conduct an autopsy on the patient to find out the cause." Liu Tangchun paused and smiled Said, "I'm giving you permission now to go and split that poor man's head, find the pathogen, and save the rest."

Hu Chunbo nodded after being silent for a moment, "I will investigate...but the others... may not be able to save them."

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Hu Chunbo went for an autopsy.On the other end, Sun Li'en went to find Ms. Iweala again.This time, he had only one question, "Did you swim when you were together?"

"Swimming?" Ms. Iweala obviously didn't expect Sun Li'en to ask this question, she nodded after a moment of silence, "Africa is too hot, the boys want to cool down after drinking beer, so they often go to the east of the camp Diving in that little pond."

"Among the people who got sick in this batch, all of them have gone swimming, right?" Sun Li'en pressed on step by step, and continued to ask, "Many people have gone swimming, it doesn't matter. All of them have a history of swimming, right?"

Ms. Iweala's expression ranged from bewildered to thoughtful to thoughtful to shocked.Her eyes widened, "You mean..."

"We are highly suspicious, but there is still a lack of conclusive evidence." Sun Li'en nodded and walked out of the room, "How far is the pond? Can you find someone to take me there?"

"To the east, you can see it directly after leaving the camp." Ms. Iweala was still in shock, and she even forgot to find someone to take Sun Lien out to have a look, "But... 28 people got sick... This is not possible……"

Things like science are sometimes like reasoning.When you've eliminated all possibilities, the last option left, however improbable it may be, is the ultimate truth.Sun Li'en walked to the edge of the pond, looked at the fairly clean water and shook his head. Who would have guessed that it was this pond that took the lives of more than a dozen people within a few days?
After taking samples from the pool, Sun Lien returned to the camp.And the sample was given to the laboratory doctor who was looking at the microscope.He said to the American medical examiner, "Please take a closer look at this sample."

The American laboratory doctor took the sample with some hesitation, and then asked, "Then what are we looking for?" He explained, "We have to process samples in different ways for different targets."

"Look for it, is there any free-living amoeba in it?" Sun Lien replied, "In the human tissue samples that will be sent later, what you need to look for is the same thing."

(End of this chapter)