Pixiu Rearing Guide

After nearly an hour of disinfecting, they finally started on the road again. The rainy road was muddy and difficult to drive. It was already late at night when they arrived in Pagan Town, and they had no time to unload the goods, so they drove directly to the hospital.

Mr. He and several miners have been placed in the isolation ward. The doctor said that they were infected with Plasmodium falciparum, but the Plasmodium has become resistant to conventional drugs, and they are looking for new drugs that can work.Malaria is transmitted by insect vectors, and escorts and visits are allowed in the ward. These days, Xiao Chen and Pang Feng have been taking turns to take care of him. Today is Pang Feng's vigil.

"The teacher is already asleep, and the condition is stable for the time being." Pang Feng saw that their clothes were still wet, so he sent them away: "Let's go back first."

Du Ziyu nodded, but he didn't feel relieved because of Pang Feng's so-called stability. The current situation just keeps from getting worse, but before he finds a new drug that can kill malaria parasites, Mr. He is still in a dangerous period.

The situation on the other side of Lao Luo was similar, he came out with a look of distress, and kept smoking on the way to send Du Ziyu and Shen Shi back to the hotel. Until Du Ziyu and the others got off the car, he didn't say a word, but he smoked out a box of cigarettes.

Two days later, the torrential rain finally stopped.

Du Ziyu met Montana who was visiting in the hospital corridor, but he brought another bad news—the Burmese sentinels and miners who stayed in the mining area were all infected with malaria.After the rain, the water in the Wulu River surged, and the water surface was full of mosquito eggs and water lice. The speed of killing insects could not catch up with the speed of malaria transmission. Now all the people in the mining area have withdrawn, and the excavation of Mo Cui has completely stopped.

"What did the lieutenant general say?" Du Ziyu sighed.

"There have been frequent terrorist attacks in Kachin State recently, and the military has no time to take care of them." Montena shook his head: "Our excavation is probably coming to an end."

Du Ziyu nodded, and was about to say something when Pang Feng hurriedly pulled Xiao Chen out of the ward, looked around, saw Du Ziyu and the others, and hurriedly explained: "I'll go to the doctor, Xiao Chen has a fever."

Xiao Chen's face was a little pale, Du Ziyu went up to help him, Xiao Chen waved his hand: "I'm fine, you go and see the teacher."

Du Ziyu hummed, took Xiao Chen's shift, and walked into the ward.Mr. He had just subsided from a high fever, his face was sallow, and he lost a lot of weight. Du Ziyu went to sit on the edge of the hospital bed. Mr. He patted his hand and said with a smile: "You boy, I didn't realize that, your physique is quite good !"

Hundreds of people participated in the mining this time, and no malaria has been found so far, only a dozen or so left. This incidence has brought a great sense of fear, and Du Ziyu feels that he is not infected. It's just during the incubation period.

"When you're discharged from the hospital, hurry back to China!" Du Ziyu was a little helpless: "You said you're old, what are you fussing about? After you go back, Mrs. He won't stop talking about me..."

"Tsk, you boy, why do you speak in the same tone as that old woman?"

"I thought you were missing our old lady He?"

"Stinky boy! No one is serious!"

"To be serious, Mr. He, I always feel that this matter is a bit strange..." Du Ziyu suddenly said seriously: "It stands to reason that malaria is a disease that local people can easily get. As Lao Luo said, there are antibodies in the body. , but us foreigners are more likely to be infected."

When he said this, Pang Feng just came back, the two of them met their eyes, and he motioned for Du Ziyu to continue talking.

"When I was in the mining area, I was bitten by mosquitoes many times. I also have this self-knowledge. My physical fitness is not as good as that of Pang Feng and Shen Shi. So I am thinking, if it is not that I am still in the incubation period, then there is something wrong with the water area." Question." Du Ziyu paused, then looked at Montena: "Before the drainage, I, Shen Shi and Montena have all been in the water, but have never encountered water lice and mosquito eggs. I suspect that there are a large number of these things now because we Drainage also took away their natural enemies. And... I have a very ridiculous guess, we didn't get sick, could it be related to our water use?"

"I also went into the water, with the workers who dug the canal." Pang Feng said suddenly.

"The first batch of workers who dug the canal have not been found to be infected with malaria." Montena nodded: "The drained water flows into an inland lake. I will take this group of people back to the mining area to get some water samples back."

With Montana leaving, Du Ziyu and the others were not idle.Because they suspected that they were immune to malaria parasites, they did a test in the hospital and found antibodies to malaria parasites in their serum. Although the mechanism of this antibody production is unknown, doctors believe that extracting the antibodies in their blood can Helps in the development of a vaccine against this new type of malaria parasite.

In this regard, Du Ziyu and the others naturally cooperated unconditionally.

Unfortunately, their antibodies were ineffective at killing existing parasites in patients.All hope is still pinned on the water samples retrieved by Montena.Three days later, the long-awaited water sample was finally taken back, but the result was unsatisfactory—the microorganisms and chemicals in the water sample did not inhibit the malaria parasite at all.

On the contrary, in the short three days, malaria broke out among miners one after another. This time, Lao Luo was not spared either.

"I want to go to the mining area again." In the past few days, the hospital has become the gathering point for other people. When Pang Feng said this, Xiao Chen had just been sent to the intensive care unit. He had a high fever for the day, and he had already started to go into a coma, and he was found to have an enlarged spleen.

"Let's go together." Du Ziyu agreed, and after some consideration, the three of them finally decided that the three of them would follow Montana's team, return to the mining area once more, and set off immediately.

Returning to the mining area again, the miners have all evacuated, leaving only a team of Burmese soldiers spraying insecticides on the bank of the Wulu River.Montana did not stop here, but drove directly to the drainage lake, which is a larger body of water, and the protective grid in the mining area isolates the lake from the outside.Montana greeted the sentry, who immediately opened the iron gate and let their car pass.

The off-road vehicle stopped by the lake, and several people got out of the vehicle one after another. Montana and his soldiers raised their guns and looked around. Pang Feng went straight to the lake and squatted down.

"I need to get in the water." He said, taking off his shirt to reveal his strong muscles.

"I'll go together." Shen Shi also took off his shirt, and walked to Pang Feng's side.Pang Feng was stunned for a moment, and then he heard Du Ziyu say: "You two need to take care of each other." After he finished speaking, he paused: "Be careful."

"Don't worry." Pang Feng turned his head and found that the focus of Du Ziyu's eyes was only on Shen Shi, and the latter didn't say anything, but responded to the person who ordered him with a very short smile.

The corner of his mouth twitched in embarrassment, and Pang Feng simply plunged into the water.

Du Ziyu waited on the shore for a while before Shen Shi surfaced and said, "Bottle!" Du Ziyu immediately handed over the plastic bottle for sampling, and Shen Shi plunged into the water again. This time he waited for a long time before seeing Shen Shi Shi poked his head out again, swam towards him, lay down on the shore, and handed himself the sampling bottle.

In addition to the lake water, there is also a pale pink jellyfish in the bottle.This jellyfish is huge, with a diameter of 5-8 cm. The umbrella-shaped crown opens and closes, and the peach-pink tentacles at the bottom flutter in the water.Like a peach blossom in full bloom.

"Is this related to malaria parasites?" Du Ziyu was stunned.

Shen Shi shook his head: "I think it's beautiful, I caught it and gave it to you." He said, staring at Du Ziyu with bright eyes: "Do you like it?"

"..." Holding Shen Shi's "gift", Du Ziyu couldn't laugh or cry for a while.

At this time, Pang Feng also came out of the water: "There are no mosquito eggs in this lake. I think some kind of natural enemy of them survives in the water." He said, noticing the sampling bottle in Du Ziyu's hand: "This What is it?"

"Jellyfish." Du Ziyu smiled helplessly.

But Pang Feng obviously didn't think it was just a gift from a Pixiu to please his spouse, he climbed ashore, and immediately leaned over to look at the sampling bottle, frowning: "Is this Peach Blossom Jellyfish?"

It's quite like a peach blossom... Thinking of this, Du Ziyu seemed a little unhappy when he saw Shen Shi coming over.

"This thing eats mosquito eggs?" Pang Feng frowned and looked at Shen Shi, obviously misunderstanding something, but his words reminded Du Ziyu that jellyfish indeed feed on microorganisms such as water fleas and nematodes. Mosquito eggs and water lice, which explains why so many water lice and mosquitoes suddenly appeared in the evacuated Wulu River.

Because their natural enemies disappeared with the drainage of the river.

So what if the jellyfish ate the malaria-carrying mosquito eggs?Is it possible that the toxins in the jellyfish also have an anti-plasmodium effect?

If this guess is true, jellyfish sting people, and they may be saved from the malaria virus precisely because of this jellyfish sting.

"This is a freshwater jellyfish, non-toxic, right?" Du Ziyu looked at Pang Feng, and after getting the latter's affirmation, he unscrewed the bottle cap, slowly inserted his index finger into the sampling bottle, and lightly touched the pink tentacles of the jellyfish with his fingertips In an instant, all the tentacles connected to his fingers at once, and then he felt the slight sting of being stung.

"Let's take this back to the hospital to try." Du Ziyu blinked.

It can be regarded as Shen Shi's mistake. The peach blossom jellyfish has been identified by a doctor. When its tentacles attack the outside world, it will secrete a toxin, and this toxin is fatal to malaria parasites.With this breakthrough discovery, the next work is much easier to progress.Montena's small army captured enough jellyfish for the doctors to extract the toxin, and then made a liquid medicine to inject the patient, and the condition finally began to improve.

And Du Ziyu's anti-serum has also been made into a vaccine and injected into the recovered patients one by one.

In just one week, Mr. He and Xiao Chen basically recovered from their malaria, and they were moved into a general ward with beds next to each other. Talking about the accident, they both still have lingering fears.

"I heard that there are still a few absenteeists who died." Xiao Chen took the fruit from Pang Feng and sighed

"These people have been attacked by leeches, and their wounds haven't healed. The toxin of the peach blossom jellyfish caused the wounds to re-infect, just like Montena..." Pang Feng explained what he knew: "The leeches in the Savage Valley, the size is Ordinary 2-3 times, the sharpness of the mouthparts and the secretion of toxins are far more than the average leech. Montena said that his wound was bleeding profusely and it was difficult to heal. Therefore, it is also very easy to re-infect. At that time, Monta's wound was on the ankle, which could be repaired by amputation. But those absenteeism wounds were all on the chest..."

"Teacher, I think this investigation should end here." Pang Feng's words made Xiao Chen shudder, and he looked at Mr. He seriously, and said sullenly.

Mr. He sighed, and suddenly found that there were two people missing in the ward: "Hey! Where are Xiao Du and Xiao Shen?"