"It's late, are you still awake?"
The study door was opened, and Liu Yan'er walked in wearing light pajamas, put a glass of milk by his hand and said softly.
"Immediately, I'm looking for an important piece of information about patients."
Qin Feng raised his head and smiled, holding her hand.
"What disease is it that stumps you, a genius doctor?"
Liu Yan'er couldn't help but ask curiously.
"A seventeen-year-old girl got a relatively rare fungal infection, and her condition was serious.
But the cause of the disease has not been found for three years, and now half of the lungs are almost eaten up. "
"Why is the infection so severe that it even ate the lungs?"
Hearing Qin Feng's words, Liu Yan'er fell into shock.
"Ever heard of flesh-eating bacteria?..."
Qin Feng took the trouble to explain to her, and Liu Yan'er opened her mouth wide in astonishment.
In the end, she learned that half of the little girl's lungs and even the sternum had been eaten until they disappeared, and she was skinny and skinny, so she swallowed hard.
This sounds unbelievable to ordinary people, but it really happened.
It turns out that there are such terrible diseases in the world, and even the cause cannot be found.
"It's not easy for you to be a doctor~~~"
After a long time, Liu Yan'er spoke heavily, her expression full of concern.
"In fact, looking at the history of modern medicine, there are very few diseases that can be cured. In many cases, the effect of placebo is even better than that of medicine."
Qin Feng breathed a sigh of relief, and said something heavily.
"But haven't you cured so many patients?"
Liu Yan'er tilted her head, wondering.
"Hehe, in fact, what doctors can do is to help patients get rid of the disease, as for the rest, it depends on the patient's own immune antibody ability.
Just like those critically ill patients lying in the ICU, whether they live or die depends more on themselves. "
Qin Feng touched her hair, shook his head and explained.
"So that's how it is."
Liu Yan'er nodded half-understanding, and muttered to herself.
"Okay, you go to bed first, I'll be there when I finish my work, I have to call the director, I need to check some things."
"Okay, then I'll go first, you come back early."
After speaking, Liu Yan'er left. He picked up his mobile phone and dialed Meng Dawei.
In the office, Meng Dawei is also looking for information about Xiaoru's condition. This patient can be said to be one of the most difficult diseases in his medical career so far.
"Hey, Qin Feng, you haven't slept so late?"
The phone was connected, he asked with a smile.
"Director, it's like this. I have some thoughts about Xiaoru's condition. Maybe you need to find Xiaoru's parents."
Qin Feng said.
"Oh? It just so happens that I have a little idea."
Meng Dawei's eyes lit up, and he responded immediately,
"I just read a lot of domestic and foreign cases of fungal infectious diseases, and it seems that most of them are caused by direct contact or accidental ingestion."
Hearing Meng Dawei's words, Qin Feng was also taken aback, and wanted to go with him.
"Director, I have the same thoughts as you, so I want to confirm whether there is a possibility of their contact before Xiaoru first developed symptoms."
"It seems that we want to go together, hehehe~"
On the other end of the phone, Meng Dawei couldn't help laughing.
It was as if the two had found the same bright light, and they suddenly felt enlightened.
Seems to be on the right track!
"Well, I'll ask now, don't hang up the phone."
Meng Dawei got up immediately and walked towards Xiaoru's ward.
Although it is past one o'clock in the morning, Xiaoru's parents can't sleep at all.
As soon as he walked to the ward area, he saw Xiaoru's father standing in the smoking area, lying on the window, smoking one cigarette after another.
"Mr. Lin."
Suddenly a call sounded from behind, and he turned his head abruptly.
Seeing that it was Meng Dawei, he quickly pinched the cigarette butt in his hand.
"Director Meng, hello, hello, what can you do at this late hour?"
"It's like this. Dr. Qin and I want to know something about your daughter's illness."
"Okay, okay, no problem."
The man nodded repeatedly and quickly agreed.
"That's right, where did your daughter go to play before she developed a high fever three years ago?"
Meng Dawei and him found a place to sit down, turned on the phone to amplify, and then asked.
"Mostly south or southwest."
At this time, Qin Feng asked on the phone.
Because according to all the cases of bacterial infection in his mind, except for the northern coastal cities, more than half of them are concentrated in the southern regions.
The temperature and humidity there are very suitable for the growth of bacteria, and the probability of infection is also higher.
"South? Let me think about it."
Hearing this, he frowned slightly, lost in thought,
"I remember that it was the summer vacation when Xiaoru finished her high school entrance examination. Her mother and I took her on a trip, basically all the southern cities."
"Have you ever been in contact with any special things, such as animals?"
Meng Dawei continued to ask.
"I visited the zoo a lot, oh yes, we went to the Wild Tropical Forest Park." He nodded and said.
Tropical Forest Park?
Could it have been infected somewhere?
"Whether your daughter was injured or bitten by something when she was there, such as mosquitoes."
Meng Dawei continued to ask questions, while Qin Feng on the other end of the phone was lost in thought, and began to frantically exclude and deduce.
"No, no."
He shook his head resolutely,
"The child's mother paid special attention to this, so when we went in, we specially wore isolation clothing and applied mosquito repellent ointment to her.
When I came back, I asked her to confirm that there were no wounds such as mosquito bites.
Because you also know that the mosquitoes in the south are very powerful, and we are also worried. "
After the words fell, Meng Dawei also hesitated.
If there is no wound, there is only one possibility left.
"Mr. Lin, have you eaten anything special with Xiaoru?"
After thinking for a while, Meng Dawei asked in a deep voice.
"Something special?"
"Like...wild animals!"
This is very important, because wild animals themselves are the hosts of pathogenic bacteria, and many viruses are transferred to the human body through the parasitic host, and then infection occurs.
Especially rodents!
"No, no, we never eat these things."
He waved his hands again and again, his tone was very firm.
…
Hearing this, Meng Dawei fell silent.
Is there something wrong with their thinking?
On the other end of the phone, Qin Feng quickly screened in his mind, matching all the highly pathogenic bacteria with the possible rodent hosts.
There are about twenty kinds!
"Let me tell you, listen and see if it's possible that Xiao Ru has eaten these things."
Qin Feng said.
"Okay, Doctor Qin, tell me."
He nodded in agreement.
Now there is no other way but to try this elimination method.
"Bat?"
"No."
"Civet?."
"No."
…
Soon, after comparing more than a dozen of them, there was no sign of eating them.
"Rats."
"No."
"..."
"Wait, Doctor Qin."
Just when Qin Feng was about to say the next thing, Lin suddenly interrupted him.
"Rats?"
Immediately, both Meng Dawei and Qin Feng's eyes lit up.
"That...is the bamboo rat a rat?"
Lin asked cautiously,
"I remember eating it once, but it was specially raised by others, so it should be fine."
Bamboo rat?
Meng Dawei frowned, lost in thought.
Have you ever heard of a precedent for bamboo rats causing fungal infections?
But it was a real breakthrough.
However, Qin Feng on the other end of the phone suddenly stood up, heaved a sigh of relief, and couldn't help showing a smile.
He found it!
In his mind, a virus was instantly locked.
Talaromyces marneffei!
It is the only temperature-dependent biphasic fungus in the genus Penicillium, and it is the only Penicillium fungus that can cause human disease so far!
Qin Feng quickly picked up the phone.
"Director Meng, please call the laboratory immediately and ask them to screen Xiaoru's blood for HIV immediately!"
"You knew already?"
Meng Dawei was taken aback when he heard the words, and then a look of surprise burst out on his face, and he hurriedly asked.
The corner of Qin Feng's mouth raised a confident arc, and he said slowly,
"I think it should be confirmed."