Doctor: I picked up attributes in the hospital

Chapter 430 Arrival - The Treacherous Situation!
three days later.

Inside a biology lab outside Johannesburg, South Africa.

This time, it was already three o'clock in the morning in South Africa, while in China, it happened to be exactly nine o'clock in the morning. Just now, Zhao Heng, Xu Manni and their parents had a video call.

Since he came to this laboratory in South Africa two days ago, Zhao Heng has been communicating with his family almost every day.

Zhao Heng, who has been here for two days, is still in the stage of jet lag. Moreover, although it is already early in the morning, Zhao Heng does not feel sleepy at all.

On the other side of the country, there are two more people who are experts in epidemiology.

Moreover, this biological laboratory is not a laboratory in the ordinary sense. It is more like a camp than a laboratory, and all scientific researchers sleep in tents.

There were a lot of people from various countries, so Zhao Heng naturally didn't have a single tent to sleep in. Zhao Heng and the epidemiologist Professor Hu who came with him slept in one.

Thinking of the scenes he saw during the day, Zhao Heng really couldn't sleep at all. Before he came, Zhao Heng thought this was the kind of biological laboratory run by the World Health Organization for a long time, but after he came, he realized that everything here , all just built a week ago.

For now, there is still an area under construction, so the camp seems to be very busy every day, with all kinds of people constantly coming in and out.

"Xiao Zhao, can't sleep?"

Professor Hu got up, shirtless, and couldn't help saying when he saw Zhao Heng who was still asleep.

The climate in South Africa is hot, so basically you can't wear too many clothes at night.

Only he and Zhao Heng came from China, so before coming, he knew a little about Zhao Heng, a rising star and rising star in the domestic biomedical field.

He still recognized Zhao Heng's achievements during this period.

"A bit."

Zhao Heng nodded, suddenly coming to a place so far away from home, it's normal that he couldn't sleep.

"Xiao Zhao, you have been here for two days, how do you feel about this place?"

Professor Hu looked at Zhao Heng meaningfully and asked.

"Professor, to be honest, this place is completely different from what I expected before I came here. Let's just say that the biosafety level is probably not even up to level three now."

Zhao Heng shook his head slightly and said.

Before coming here, he said it was a biological laboratory of the United Nations Health Organization. He thought it was at least a well-equipped professional biological laboratory. The biosafety level should be at least level [-], not to mention level [-]. Otherwise, how can we study Xueshang? Bora is a super scary virus.

Biosafety is defined as human biohazard as the real or potential danger to humans, animals or plants caused by biological infectious agents through direct infection or indirect damage to the environment.

The biosafety level is determined according to the different degrees of biological hazards, including the requirements for experimenters, laboratories, and even environmental protection. Usually, the safety of microbiological and biomedical experiments is divided into 4 according to the level of biological hazards. Level to meet the needs of various adaptations such as scientific research, teaching, clinical and diagnosis.

Biosafety level [-] refers to pathogens whose characteristics are known and will not cause illness to researchers, such as baculovirus, guinea pig herpes virus, squirrel monkey herpes virus, etc.

Biosafety level [-] refers to pathogens with moderate infectivity, which are related to some common human diseases and are potentially dangerous, such as hepatitis A virus, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, respiratory syncytial virus, etc.

Biosafety level three refers to those pathogens with high infectivity and fatal onset that require professional protection, such as HIV, West Nile encephalitis virus, and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus.

The highest biosafety level four refers to pathogens with high infectivity, high probability of being fatal, or a large number of unknown characteristics, which require high-level protection. At present, there is no effective vaccine or treatment method, such as Argentine hemorrhage Fever virus, Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, Ebola virus, etc.

"Xiao Zhao, is this the first time you have gone abroad to accept this kind of mission?"

Professor Hu looked at Zhao Heng, and said noncommittally, obviously since coming here, Professor Hu seems very calm, he must have had this kind of experience.

"Yes."

Zhao Heng nodded, seeing Professor Hu's calm expression, Zhao Hengxin said, did he make a fuss?

"I remember that you have experience in dealing with brain-eating amoeba infections in China. In terms of expertise, I won't say too much. Xiao Zhao, you just need to remember that this is in Africa."

Professor Hu said meaningfully.

"Yes, we are in Africa."

Zhao Heng slightly sighed and said, everything is unreasonable, because this sentence "we are in Africa" ​​is enough to explain.

You must know that South Africa is almost the most developed country in Africa, and Johannesburg is the largest and best city in South Africa, which can almost represent the highest level of development in the whole of Africa.

And in such a place, it is impossible to establish a third-level biological laboratory, which shows the level of science and technology in Africa as a whole.

It is not that simple to establish a professional biological laboratory. Generally speaking, safety, efficiency, and comfort are the three most ideal elements for establishing a biological laboratory.

Biosafety laboratories must ensure personal safety, environmental safety, waste safety, and sample safety, and can operate safely for a long time. At the same time, they must provide a comfortable and good working environment for laboratory workers.

And all of these are manifestations of the level of science and technology. No matter how powerful the World Health Organization is, it is impossible to transport all the things needed to establish a biological experiment here. Therefore, many things can only be obtained locally. .

It is because of local materials that it is impossible to establish a high-level biological laboratory.

"Professor, is Dr. William, the director of this biological laboratory, really just an expert in infectious diseases?"

Zhao Heng asked with some doubts.

The reason for asking this question is because Zhao Heng picked up a technology called [Biological Pathogen Genetic Modification Technology] from this bearded doctor this morning. This technology, obviously, is to modify pathogens, for example Bacteria, viruses, and then used as weapons.

And the director of the biological laboratory of the United Nations Health Organization has such a dangerous genetic modification technology that is banned by the international law, so it is difficult for people not to doubt what he is here for.

"Why do you say that?"

Hearing what Zhao Heng said, Professor Hu felt a little surprised, so he continued to ask.

"Nothing, just a hunch."

Zhao Heng shook his head slightly and said.

Now, on the bright side, everything in this biological laboratory, including receiving virus samples and conducting analysis, is no different from a normal biological laboratory for infectious epidemiological research, so Zhao Heng also couldn't tell, because he picked up the forbidden genetic modification technology from the bearded Dr. William, so he doubted his real purpose.

"You are still young. For this mission, you just need to learn more and see more. The United Nations will take care of it if the sky falls."

Professor Hu said slowly.

Between the words, it seemed that he knew some inside information.

"Professor, you're here, can you explain to me?"

When Zhao Heng heard Professor Hu say this, he immediately knew that Professor Hu must know something he didn't know, and even had some separate and special tasks on him, but he didn't know what the tasks were.

"The purpose of our visit this time is to confirm the intensity of the outbreak of the latest type of Ebola virus, the mode of transmission, and the virus itself. The other is to find out why the emergence of this virus There are no traces of human beings in it."

Professor Hu did not fully tell Zhao Heng the real purpose of this mission until now. As the saying goes, secrets are used to make things secret, and words are used to reveal failures. It is impossible to be too cautious in investigating such man-made traces. No, if the country of the United States detects it, it will be difficult to say what will happen to it.

"It turned out to be so, I know."

Zhao Heng nodded. When Professor Hu said this, he directly matched the genetic modification technology that Zhao Heng picked up from the bearded Dr. William.

"So for the work starting tomorrow, don't ask anything, don't bring up any doubts, and try your best to collect the genetic sequencing data of this Ebola virus."

Professor Hu said to Zhao Heng very solemnly.

This genetic sequencing data is the most direct evidence pointing directly to whether the bloody Ebola this time was artificially modified, so it must be strictly guarded against, and it is not so easy to obtain.

"Anyway, try your best. I see today's security arrangements. Most of the security forces are used to protect the gene sequencing area. Therefore, this matter does not have to be completed."

After a pause, Professor Hu said again.

This time he and Zhao Heng were sent here to collect as much information about the Ebola virus as possible. Of course, neither of them is a professional intelligence officer, so they can only do their best.

"I see."

Zhao Heng nodded, but Zhao Heng was very sure about this difficult task.

Because the [microbial genetic modification technology] picked up from Dr. William contained complete genetic modification data on the Ebola virus. What troubles Zhao Heng now is how to get this data out.

If it is taken out directly, then the source of the data will be a big problem.

"But professor, is it a bit too embarrassing for us to entrust this kind of thing to two researchers?"

Zhao Heng couldn't help asking.

"In this emergency response team, people can't enter casually. The two of us came in, and the United States has done research and investigation. Naturally, it is impossible for intelligence personnel to come in."

Professor Hu shook his head slightly and said.

"I see."

Zhao Heng nodded.

"Then go to bed early, and see how that bearded William will allocate work tomorrow."

Professor Hu said.

"it is good."

Zhao Heng responded.

The time came to nine o'clock in the morning.

In the largest tent in the camp, scientific researchers from all over the world sat around a table put together, and the director of the camp, who was also the leader of the emergency response team of the United Nations Health Organization this time, Dr. William the Bearded, started Tasks were assigned.

This is the first time for Zhao Heng to participate in this kind of meeting with scientists from all over the world. It feels a bit novel. Among these people, there are many big men who often publish papers on "cell". It seems that all countries are very interested in this task It is still more important.

Dr. William quickly finished assigning tasks to scientists from various countries. As expected, Zhao Heng and Professor Hu were assigned some innocuous tasks of collecting basic data.

Zhao Heng originally wanted to show off and fight for a more important task, but he remembered what Professor Hu said last night, but he held back.

However, Zhao Heng also looked very upset when he saw the scientists from various countries present, because this Dr. William handed over the most important work of obtaining the most important information to the United States, England and the third Scientists from this country, this very obvious eccentric behavior, makes the scientists of Maoxiong country look very dissatisfied.

"William, this is the United Nations team. Although you are the team leader, you shouldn't assign work like this."

The representative of Mao Xiongguo's scientists finally couldn't bear to stand up and speak.

Obviously, the representative of Mao Xiongguo's scientists, and the bearded Dr. William, knew each other.

Speaking of it, William, the bearded man, came to the United States from Mao Xiongguo 20 years ago. As for why such a top scientist came to the United States from Mao Xiongguo, this is an extremely sad story.

"Chekhov, do you think you are still in St. Petersburg, and you have the final say? I am the team leader here, and I have the final say. If you have any opinions, please directly mention them to the secretary general."

The bearded William said to Chekhov, the scientist representative of Maoxiong Kingdom, in a flat tone and without a trace of emotion.

Hearing this, Chekhov, the hot-tempered Mao Xiongguo scientist representative, couldn't bear it and was about to explode, but a scientist accompanying him stopped him.

With this episode, scientists from other countries, although dissatisfied, did not stand up and say anything.

Now that the tasks were assigned, scientists from various countries got out of their tents and went about their business.

Just as Zhao Heng and Professor Hu were about to leave the tent, Dr. William suddenly stopped them.

"Dr. William, is there anything else?"

Professor Hu said very cautiously.

At present, his and Zhao Heng's task is to hold on, keep a low profile, and find opportunities to collect as much information as possible.

"This is Zhao, Professor Li from your country. I am very surprised by your breakthrough in the field of nano research, especially the successful development of siRNA colloidal bundles."

William didn't answer Professor Hu. Obviously, he was not very interested in Professor Hu, a top epidemiologist in China, but turned to Zhao Heng.

"Thank you, Dr. William."

Zhao Heng said very cautiously, Dr. William spoke very fluent Mandarin, which made Zhao Heng's vigilance towards him raised to the highest level.

Sometimes the scariest thing is knowing your enemy.

Moreover, combined with the genetic modification technology he picked up from Dr. William, when William mentioned siRNA colloidal bundles, Zhao Heng shivered.

Why William pays attention to this new type of nano-therapeutic material is very simple. Since siRNA can be used as a nano-scale material to carry drug molecules into the human body to achieve therapeutic effects, as a very useful and extremely concealed nano-scale delivery tool, It can also transport other things!
(End of this chapter)