When Hanfeng heard about the brain-eating worm, he immediately thought of the brain-eating leech raised by Fang Wen. A chill rose from his tailbone, and a chill ran down his back. He nodded and said, "Well, please continue."
Pang Qian said: "Amoeba lives in water, soil or decaying organic matter. The trophozoites are mainly bacteria, multiply by binary fission, and can form cysts. The amoeba type of Naegleria fowleri can become
cyst, but not the flagellar type.
Because the patients we receive now are infected with Naegleria fowleri, we will focus on this.
Naegleria fowleri is thermophilic, and its trophozoite grows best at 37-45c and dies quickly at 0-4c. The cysts have strong resistance and are still viable at 51-65c and 8 months, and -
20c can survive for more than 4 months. The cysts can also tolerate high concentrations of free chlorine."
Hanfeng heard this and asked: "So this parasite likes high temperatures?"
Pang Qian nodded: "Yes. The amoebas of Naegleria fowleri live in lakes, hot springs and even swimming pools with poor hygiene. They mainly live by eating seaweed and bacteria grown in lake sediments.
Swimmers who go to lakes tend to stir up sediments at the bottom of lakes when they wade through shallower waters. If they continue to reach deeper waters, this amoeba may take advantage of the nostrils and attach to the olfactory nerve.
After the amoeba enters the olfactory nerve in the nostril, it will destroy the nerve tissue all the way until it reaches the brain. Then it starts to eat away at the brain cells until the patient dies!"
Hanfeng's hair stood up when he heard it: "It's so scary!"
Pang Qian nodded and continued: "Patients usually have symptoms such as neck stiffness, headache, and fever in the early stage. In the late stage, they show a series of brain injury symptoms such as hallucinations and abnormal behavior. The most frightening thing is that once the vast majority of patients
Being sick, the hope of survival is very slim.
The so-called Naegleria fowleri can eat human brains actually refers to the inflammation and destruction of brain tissue caused by the protozoa after entering the human brain. It does not really eat brains. They get into the back of the human brain and multiply rapidly.
Then it spreads along the meninges to the center of the brain, causing purulent meningoencephalitis, vascular hemorrhage and brain parenchymal necrosis.
Since Naegleria fowleri feeds on bacteria and other microorganisms in nature, they often harbor many bacteria in their bodies, so they may also bring bacteria into the brain and cause bacterial inflammation.
The incubation period from when the protozoa burrows into the brain to when symptoms of meningoencephalitis appear is only 5-8 days. The initial symptoms of an infected person are headache, vomiting, sore throat, and runny nose, because the protozoa burrow into the brain through the olfactory nerve.
, so abnormalities in smell and taste are mostly caused by
Early symptoms that are not noticed by others. 2-3 days after the onset, headache and vomiting worsen, and high fever occurs, with body temperature as high as 39c~40c. Some patients may also experience movement disorders, disorientation, diplopia, and changes in behavior and personality.
or insanity.
As the disease continues to progress, the patient develops convulsions and eventually enters coma and respiratory failure. The most frightening thing is that the vast majority of patients have very little hope of survival once they become ill, and most die within a week!"
Hearing this, Hanfeng had a preliminary understanding of the parasite. After thinking about it, he asked: "Where were these ten patients infected? How long have they been infected?"
Pang Qian said: "It was in a swimming pool. According to the patient's family, it was a public swimming pool in the community. It was closed for a week due to a failure of the drainage system some time ago, and the temperature was extremely high that week. After the drainage system was repaired,
The swimming pool was open while changing the water, and so many people were infected. They were infected on Saturday, and today is already the fifth day. If there is no treatment, I will watch them die, so I am very anxious.
, I just thought of you.”
Hanfeng asked: "Is there no special medicine?"
Pang Qian shook his head: "No, so far, there is no specific medicine in the world. Hundreds of infected people have been found around the world before, but none of them survived, and the mortality rate is 100%!"
Pang Qian paused at this point and then said: "Now the only hope is pinned on you, Xiaohan. If you can cure these patients, it will not only save their lives, but also a miracle in the history of medicine. It will be
It is recorded in history. The patients you cured last time often called me to ask when you would come, and they wanted to come and thank you in person."
Hanfeng smiled and shook his head: "Haha, this is not necessary. It is the bounden duty of doctors to save lives and heal the wounded. I won't say much else. Just take me to see the patient."
Pang Qian stood up and said, "Okay, let's go."
Patients infected with Naegleria fowleri were placed in three wards. Among them were children and adults. The youngest was only six years old and the oldest was over fifty years old. Judging from their appearance,
They have all entered a coma, and the two most serious children have difficulty breathing!
Seeing the seriousness of the situation, Hanfeng said to Pang Qian: "You tell everyone to stay away first, and I will check these two children first."
Pang Qian nodded and told the nurse to persuade the patient's family to go outside for a while. Now a powerful doctor came to check their child. After hearing this, the patient's family members suddenly felt hopeful and walked out of the ward to wait.
The cold wind closed the ward door, and he came to the first six-year-old boy's hospital bed and sat down. After helping him to lie on his back, his big palms covered the child's head.
From the images that popped up, Hanfeng saw that the child's brain was stretched out and had extensive inflammation, and in the cerebrospinal fluid, he saw densely packed small bugs that appeared after magnification!
You can’t see the heads of these little bugs, they are just as big as a hair and only as long as a finger, but their numbers are astonishing, there are countless of them swimming around inside!
What’s even more incredible is that if you look carefully, you can see that they are constantly multiplying, and the entire brain has been infected, everywhere!
Hanfeng was stunned by this scene. These things were products of nature, not things created by magic, but they gave Hanfeng the feeling of being full of evil!
The powerful golden light penetrated from Hanfeng's palm into the depths of the child's brain. This golden light was very spiritual, because Hanfeng received Pang Qian's reminder that this little thing likes heat very much, thus giving his subconscious mind that he wants to be cold.
The best temperature for killing protozoa is between 0 and 4 degrees, so the golden light emitted from the palm of your hand by the cold wind is exactly 3 degrees.
Wherever the golden light passes, the ambient temperature of the brain drops rapidly, and the densely packed protozoa in the image immediately die and remain motionless. After the golden light passes, even the bodies of the protozoa are gone, but the temperature of the brain quickly returns to its original body temperature.
The golden light was as indestructible as a laser. After killing all the protozoa, the golden light began to repair the inflammation in the brain. When the cold wind cured the youngest child, it only took less than five minutes!
There were four patients in one ward. After more than 20 minutes, the ward door opened. Hanfeng said to Pang Qian who was waiting outside: "It should be OK. You ask the doctors and nurses to go in and check." He immediately walked into another ward.
Pang Qian was overjoyed, and the family members were even more happy and cried!
More than an hour later, Hanfeng walked out of the ward a little tired. As soon as he walked out of the door, he was shocked by the scene outside!
I saw that the corridor outside the ward door was already full of people. There were dozens of family members of the twelve patients in total. When they saw the cold wind coming out, they suddenly fell to their knees and burst into tears.
, gushing words of thanks to the miracle doctor, Hanfeng quickly walked up and helped the few old people in front of him, telling them not to be so polite.
After everyone stood up, Hanfeng said: "It is a doctor's bounden duty to save lives and heal the wounded. Fortunately, I have not disappointed everyone. The patient has just been cured and is still weak. You go and take care of the patient first. What can I do?
I’ll go find Dean Pang later, haha. Dean Pang, let’s go.”
The doctors and nurses at Pang Qianhe Hospital cured all the patients in a short period of time without using any medicine or surgery. They were so surprised that they couldn't believe it. But when the facts were put in front of them, they couldn't help but believe it.
Looking at Han Feng and Pang Qian's retreating figures, the female doctors and nurses all showed admiration in their eyes, looking at them infatuatedly without blinking!
When he arrived at Pang Qian's office, Pang Qian said: "Xiaohan, your method is so magical that it cannot be analyzed with common sense. I can only say that it is amazing. Thank you so much, haha."
Hanfeng smiled and said: "Haha, since I have this ability, I can't just ignore death and save myself. It's nothing to do with my hands, so I'll leave first if I have something else to do."
Pang Qian hurriedly said: "Wait a minute," and then walked over to the desk, took out a bank card, handed it to Hanfeng and said, "Xiaohan, this is the last time you cured someone who was poisoned by the Japanese."
The treatment fees for those five patients. Because you were not present at the time, the patients’ families insisted on paying, so I had to collect it on my behalf. The treatment fees given by each of them were 100,000 yuan, and the total amount was 500,000 yuan. You should take it first
, when I collect the treatment fee for the patient I just cured, I will contact you and give it to you."
Han Feng did not answer, he looked at Pang Qian and said: "Dean Pang, these people are ordinary people, it is not easy for them to come up with one hundred thousand. You should also guess that I am not short of money. Give me these hundreds of thousands."
It doesn't make any sense, but if it is returned to them, it will definitely be of great help to their family. This means that money should be used wisely, right? Haha, I will leave first if I have something else to do. If those family members want to send money
Give it to me. Please explain it to me. I don’t want it. Goodbye."
After saying that, Pang Qian flashed out of the door before he could react. By the time Pang Qian chased him out of the door, Hanfeng had disappeared!
Pang Qian was very moved and sighed: "What a good young man."
In a valley passed by the Maple Garden Private Road, a small car fell into the middle of the creek and fell apart, but there was no one in the car.