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Chapter 59 Virus Attack

The blond middle-aged man next to Zoe looked at John, the only person who had contact with the body.

"Hi! This is Dr. Morgan from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Are you sure you didn't inadvertently come into contact with saliva or other secretions from the mouth of the deceased?"

John's face suddenly turned pale with fright, and the faces of others also became ugly.

"No, I'm sure. What's wrong? You scared me."

"I reminded him to wear rubber gloves when examining the body." Neela Harper added next to her.

"Wait a minute." Dr. Morgan ignored John and turned around to motion to a bald African-American doctor wearing protective clothing, an N95 mask and a protective mask.

The doctor carried a testing box and walked directly into the toilet to start examining the body.

"Hey, this is a crime scene!" Neela Harper shouted behind him, but she made no move to stop him. Every patrol officer who can hang out on the streets and deal with all kinds of trivial things is good at observing what is happening. .

In this situation, everyone knew something big was going to happen.

Jack wasn't too nervous. Although he couldn't remember whether this plot was in the original drama, he had healing skills at hand, but he didn't dare to say anything else. Whether it was an infectious disease or a chemical weapon, he couldn't be killed without a closed space.

Secondly, seeing that Dr. Morgan is dressed in formal attire and not even wearing a mask, it is estimated that it is probably not an airborne thing like X-Coronavirus. At least for the time being, there is no need to worry about the Los Santos dungeon being converted into a Raccoon City dungeon.

"Well, for now, the crime is secondary."

Zoe covered her forehead and looked extremely sad. This kind of major public safety issue that required the dispatch of DHS and CDC occurred in her own jurisdiction, and it would be a headache for anyone else.

"There are no signs of infection!" The bald black doctor who finished the examination in the toilet shouted to everyone outside.

"The victim was a member of a local terrorist organization. DHS has been tracking them. There is evidence that this organization is planning a deadly biochemical terrorist attack against Los Angeles."

Zoe explained to everyone in a low voice. After speaking, the CDC doctors behind her began to step forward and guide everyone present to the plastic tent that had been set up for decontamination operations.

Later, the briefing conference room of the Wilshire Division was once again crowded with patrol officers who had canceled their vacations. Superintendent Anderson and Superintendent Wade Gray, who had just finished a meeting with DHS, CDC and FBI, hurriedly walked into the conference room, along with Morgan, the female doctor Jack had met at the station.

This time Zoe did not speak, but Superintendent Gray presided over the meeting: "Everyone, the information we have obtained so far is as follows."

"At ten o'clock last night, this person" He pointed to the large screen hanging on the right side of the conference room, on which a picture of the deceased appeared.

"Corey Valance, and an accomplice, boarded a long-distance bus from Phoenix to Los Angeles. At present, we have not yet learned the exact identity of this accomplice."

"But what can be confirmed is that these two people were identified by DHS as members of a radical nationalist organization that was extremely dissatisfied with the multicultural environment in Los Angeles and had issued threats of attack."

"They arrived in the city at 5 o'clock this morning. It is speculated that shortly after arrival, Valence's accomplices strangled him to death in the station bathroom."

Tim asked from the back row: "The motive for the murder was Valence getting cold feet?"

Zoe nodded aside, "It is speculated that it is, it is very likely."

Then Superintendent Gray continued: "After all, their mission is to release the deadly virus."

The patrol officers in the conference room were in an uproar. Although the experience of John and the others had spread, but it was confirmed from the boss's mouth, everyone's mood became uneasy. After all, compared with open swords and open guns, biological and chemical attacks are usually only Stories that appear in movies seem more likely to scare people.

The two Wilshire branch leaders on the stage looked at Dr. Morgan from the CDC in unison, indicating that it was time for professionals to take action.

"There is currently no evidence that the biochemical infection source carried by these two people has been released."

She paused: "But I am convinced that there will be a long-planned biological attack in LA soon."

Jack asked the question that everyone was most concerned about: "Then we need to know what type of virus it is."

Dr. Morgan's expression changed and he glanced at Zoe and Superintendent Gray.

Zoe nodded: "Frontline patrol officers must know what they are facing."

Dr. Morgan said with some reluctance: "It is a weaponized hemorrhagic fever virus. Basically, it can make the infected person bleed to death."

"The virus is spread through contact with body fluids, and the incubation period is extremely short." As she spoke, she showed several gruesome photos of patients bleeding from their orifices on the big screen.

"After the virus attacks, if it is not treated in time, the mortality rate is as high as 90%."

As a veteran politician in his previous life, Jack was familiar with things like Ebola. He had a friend who was a doctor in aid of Africa and had watched some related documentaries.

When he heard the word weaponization and the fatality rate of 90%, he felt a little calmer. At least for the time being, he no longer had to worry about Luo City becoming a dead city.

Weaponization means that there is usually a corresponding vaccine. A 90% fatality rate sounds scary, but an extremely high fatality rate means that secondary transmission is not easy and will not cause a global infectious disease on the scale of previous lives.

Of course, Jack didn't even bother to think about why a mere terrorist organization could possess a weaponized virus. This was a question that only Fort Detrick could probably answer.

As the only one who came into contact with the corpse, John seemed a little frightened and asked quickly: "What if we get effective treatment?"

Dr. Morgan replied: "The mortality rate is down to 60%, but the bad news is"

John's eyes widened, as if in disbelief: "Isn't this bad news?"

Dr. Morgan nodded and continued talking: "The bad news is that the virus vaccine is still in the experimental stage. There are only a few hundred doses flying here from Maryland on a special plane. It is completely insufficient to deal with this crisis."

Jack in the audience secretly curled his lips. The vaccine was only 40% effective. It was useless. No wonder the front-line patrol officers were pushed to the front. Shouldn't the DHS or FBI directly intervene in this kind of thing? Or simply let the Army do it. Come over and wipe your ass yourself. After all, Fort Detrick in Maryland belongs directly to the Army.

Superintendent Gray on the stage was very outspoken, and he was obviously also dissatisfied with the above approach.

"The FBI will set up a temporary command center in this city. We are ordered to cooperate with them. The first thing we need to do is to find out the identity of the accomplice of the deceased Corey Valance and the perpetrator."

"You need to actually interrogate all the passengers who were on the same bus as them one by one."