"There are a lot of hollow holes in the brain?"

Xia Ren couldn't help but ask.

When he heard that the first case was a sudden death from epilepsy at night, he didn't care much.

It was nothing to hear two cases, brain damage was fatal, but in the third case, the nine-year-old girl would suddenly yell every night when she was diagnosed with phobia, and she unconsciously thought of Zhao Rou.

This symptoms are similar to Zhao Rou's. In addition, doctors in Jupiter once consulted Zhao Rou. Although it was discussed that the probability of suffering from central sleep apnea hypoventilation syndrome was relatively high, Yu Jingjing also said that she may also suffer from phobia at the same time.

Poor sleep at night, coupled with phobia, Zhao Rou's symptoms are very similar to those of the nine-year-old girl

Especially in the end, the patient's brain was discovered that there were a large number of hollow holes, which were suspected to be affected by some kind of parasite, which made him directly think of the long white worm he had seen in Zhao Rou's eyes in his dream.

"Can those insects actually break through dreams and come to reality to swallow people's brains after they reproduce?"

Xia Ren felt a numbness in his scalp.

The vice president who introduced the situation looked at Xia Ren, temporarily put down the information in his hand, and asked, "Do you have any questions?"

"No, no, you keep going."

Xia Ren plans to wait until he finishes reporting on the situation.

Niu Changshou glanced at him and said nothing.

The vice president then continued: "The three cases were separated by about two months. Except for the patients in the first case who had a previous history of hypertension, the remaining two cases had no relevant history."

"Then one month later, the fourth case appeared..."

Listening to the vice president's story, everyone gradually understood the process of the disease's development and spread.

Since the first case occurred in December last year, no abnormality has been seen, but by April this year, similar cases suddenly increased, and none of the patients survived, all of them died for various reasons. By September this year, the cumulative number of cases had increased to 100.

Their main causes of death include cerebral artery blood thief syndrome, respiratory failure, acute heart failure, acute coronary syndrome, hepatic encephalopathy, cerebral hemorrhage, multisystem atrophy, small chorea...

These diseases are diverse, and patients have them of all ages, which seem to be unrelated, but the patients only have one thing in common, that is, wake up from sleep at night and whisper.

However, Dongpu City is so big that the number of deaths from various diseases is close to a thousand every day. These hundred people did not attract any attention at that time, or in other words, no one connected them at all.

Then after April, things gradually became a little wrong.

In the past, because of the extremely low similarity, the onset of patients, and the hospitals visited were basically different, no one could connect them, but after April, the changes began.

The first case of contagious signs was a couple. First, the man was admitted to the hospital due to myocarditis. According to his girlfriend's description, he often had nightmares in the previous half month, but he forgot the content of the dream when he woke up. Two days after the man was hospitalized, his girlfriend also had similar symptoms.

Of course, this did not attract much attention at the time, but was just taken as a coincidence and was not revealed until a few months later.

Since the first suspected case occurred in December last year, as of now, the cumulative suspected cases in Dongpu City alone have risen to 800. When counting the population according to the order at the end of October, it was found that the mortality rate of the permanent population in Dongpu City in the past four months has increased by thirteen percentage points compared with the previous one. Looking back, it was found that since May this year, the mortality rate has begun to slowly rise, which finally attracted the attention of the Affiliated Hospital of Dongpu University of Science and Technology. They began to conduct investigations. The deeper the results, the more shocked they were by the terrible consequences hidden behind these cases.

"For various reasons, the data statistics are not accurate. 800 cases are just a very vague number, maybe a few, or many, and..."

The vice president said this: "And this is not counting the migrant population in Dongpu City this year."

If it can be really confirmed that this is a new type of contaminating disease and is contagious...

Just thinking about it makes me feel cold all over.

The vice president turned on the projector and released a chart showing the changing trend of cases.

It can be clearly seen that the distinction between May and September is a turning point, especially in September. After September, the curve that had originally had a slightly higher slightly, and the number of suspected cases showed an outbreak. The number of new cases in the past month was several times that of the previous nine months.

The projector's picture was switched to a fan-shaped diagram. The vice president continued to introduce: "We can see that the main symptoms of all suspected cases are cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and neurological diseases, as well as a few mental and circulatory diseases, as well as respiratory diseases. Among them, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases account for 50% of the total number of cases, neurological diseases account for 30%, and the remaining numbers are less than 20%. If this is the case alone, there is no way to see any connection between them. However, no matter what symptoms they show, there will definitely be two problems..."

The projector screen switches again, and the entire fan diagram is covered with translucent blue, with two symptoms written on it.

"One of them is sleep apnea hypoventilation syndrome, and the second is specific phobia."

The vice president looked solemn and said, "I temporarily classify them as atypical sleep apnea hypoventilation syndrome, or if it is named according to the most prominent characteristics, it is

——Attypical phobia.”

After he said that, he looked at Niu Changshou and sought his opinions.

Niu Changshou nodded and agreed to the naming: "Please continue."

The vice president continued: "These investigations alone are not enough. To determine whether atypical phobia is consistent with the characteristics of an infectious disease, three key points must be met, namely pathogens, the human body and the environment they are in."

"But unfortunately, we can only confirm the three key points that we have to date that one human body, pathogens and the environment they are in. We have only guesses and have no definite evidence yet."

The picture on the projector switched again, and the vice president's tone became more serious.

On the picture, an anatomized human brain appears.

"For various reasons, of the 800 suspected cases so far, we have only dissected thirty-three patients' bodies.

Regardless of the main symptoms of these patients during their lifetime, a significant feature can be found after dissection.

Their brains basically lost 5-30 mass!”

The picture is enlarged and more details are presented to everyone.
Chapter completed!