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Chapter 324 Brucellosis

Chapter 325 Brucellosis

"Doctor Qin, a patient with persistent high fever came to the emergency department." The head resident of the emergency department said.

"Fever persists?" Qin Feng put down what he was doing, and followed the hospital to the emergency department.

When he came to the observation room, Qin Feng saw the patient lying on the hospital bed.

I picked up the thermometer and took a look. The good guy had a high fever of 40 degrees Celsius.

"How long has your fever lasted?" Qin Feng asked.

"It's been going on for several days. Ever since I came back from transporting goods from Jiangcheng, I've been having a fever and stomach trouble." After the patient finished speaking, he coughed violently.

Qin Feng nodded, and gave the patient a drip first to avoid contagious flu. Qin Feng also asked the nurse to put a mask on the patient.

As soon as the drip was put on the patient, the patient complained of a stomachache and wanted to go to the toilet.

Diarrhea and high fever may be stomach flu.

Qin Feng memorized it, but he always felt that something was wrong.

Soon, another patient was sent to the observation room, who also had a high fever.

"What's going on?" Qin Feng glanced at the white work clothes on the two of them, they should be interns doing scientific research.

"My friend has a little fever." The patient friend said.

"Fever?" Qin Feng touched the patient's forehead, the temperature was very low, "Your friend should have a low-grade fever, go hang the water."

"Low fever, it's impossible. Before I came here, I took my friend's temperature, and it was 38 degrees Celsius, high fever!" the patient's friend said urgently.

Qin Feng regained his energy all of a sudden. An ordinary fever is just a minor illness, which is often seen in the emergency department.

But alternating high and low fever is not common.

"When did it start?" Qin Feng asked, standing up straight.

"Just this afternoon, I was bitten by a guinea pig." The patient said.

Qin Feng's face suddenly became serious, staring at the patient and said: "Brucellosis!"

Brucellosis is a disease transmitted by animals. In China, cattle and sheep are the main source of infection. Pastoral areas, herdsmen, and veterinarians in the west have a high incidence of the disease because of their close contact with animals.

In addition, the causes of Brucella infection include animal fur, processed meat products, dairy products, etc. If they are not strictly sterilized, they may also be transmitted through the digestive tract.

Generally, the staff of the research institute have to wear sterile gloves to work, just to prevent the wound from being bitten by animals.

These two interns obviously ignored this regulation, which led to the current situation.

You must know that brucellosis is a terrible disease. It is the same as AIDS. Once infected, it cannot be cured. It can only be treated in the hospital for free for life.

It is conceivable how serious the disease can be treated by the state for free for life.

At the same time, brucellosis is also divided into acute phase and chronic phase.

The acute phase is curable and has many symptoms, the most typical being undulate fever.

Undulating fever means that the body temperature gradually rises, and it begins to decrease when it reaches about 39 degrees, and then rises again after returning to normal body temperature.

But in addition to waveform fever, there are other types of fever, such as irregular fever, relaxation fever, and alternating high and low fever.

In the acute stage, there are symptoms such as hyperhidrosis, joint pain, and orchitis.

If it develops into the chronic phase, the horror of brucellosis will be fully revealed.

Brucellosis in the chronic phase is incurable, and there is no medicine or therapy for chronic brucellosis in the world.

Brucellosis is not fatal, but it is a constant torment.

One of the most notable features of chronic brucellosis is sickness, listlessness all day long, and lack of interest in anything. This is not a psychological effect, but that the muscles of the body are indeed atrophied like muscles. Work hard.

This also means that patients in the chronic phase of brucellosis are no longer able to perform physical work, and they will be out of breath after walking a few steps, and they will also be unable to work because their mental state will become extremely poor.

Patients with brucellosis in the chronic phase can only be supported by other people in the second half of their lives, and the disease will also affect the reproductive system. After developing into the chronic phase, patients will gradually lose their fertility.

What's even more frightening is that brucellosis is accompanied by joint pain, headache, and muscle pain at any time, as well as gastrointestinal symptoms, such as diarrhea and constipation.

If this is a punishment, it must be the standard of the top ten tortures in the Qing Dynasty.

The patient's face turned pale from fright, and he said to his friend beside him in fear: "I should listen to you to wear gloves, I regret it."

The expression of the friend on the side is also a little volatile, because he, like the patient, has been bitten by those small animals before. After all, whoever is doing animal experiments has not been bitten.

The most important thing is that if the patient is really infected with brucellosis, it means that there is something wrong with the experimental animals in the institute.

According to the regulations of the laboratory documents, any animal used in experiments must be vaccinated, absolutely healthy and free from diseases that can be transmitted to humans.

However, there is a problem with a guinea pig, which may represent the supplier of the research institute, and did not follow the regulations to carry out the quarantine.

This means that there are other animals with similar problems, and there may be other people in the institute who are also infected, but during the incubation period.

"Doctor, I think I need to check it too." The patient's friend said.

Qin Feng nodded and asked, "Which research institute do you belong to?"

"Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, all the experimental animals in Shanghai are purchased from us." The patient's friend did not hide it.

Qin Feng was stunned for a moment. If the diagnosis is made, the entire Demon City will be affected.

He quickly called Zhao Guoping, and after learning about the situation, Zhao Guoping rushed over quickly. This was such a critical situation for the safety of a city.

The inspections at the hospital are also green. The main tests are the Paul Tiger Red slide agglutination test and the test tube agglutination test. If a seropositive test is detected, it means infection.

These two projects are not to detect the number of Brucella in the human body, but the agglomerative antibody to the Brucella SL-PS antigen in the serum.

In the agglutinin test, as long as the antibody is present, it is positive, while in the tube agglutination test, only the antibody titer exceeds 1:100 to be counted as positive.

In medicine, the presence of Brucella antibodies in a person's serum means that he has been exposed to Brucella in the past period of time. The larger the number, the stronger the antibody in the patient. The chance of infection is also greater.

It's just that after the inspection, they won't be able to come out until the next day. Qin Feng did other inspections on the two of them, and confirmed that there was only a fever accident and no other symptoms, so they both stayed in the hospital.

Although brucellosis is not currently contagious, hospitalization is the best option to be on the safe side.

Even if Qin Feng wanted to put them back, Zhao Guoping would not allow it.

(End of this chapter)