NOVPUBNot only did Guo Nantian and his family of three rush to get injections, but Han Jiaoyan did as well.
Even though she hadn’t been bitten by a dog, she had still been scratched on her leg.
Sometimes, a dog’s claws can carry the rabies virus, too.
While several people were being disinfected and injected, the test report on Wu Bin came out.
Nurse Head Liu Jing said in a panic, "President, it’s confirmed, Wu Bin indeed has rabies!"
As soon as everyone heard what Liu Jing said, their faces changed.
After all, the fatality rate of rabies is no joke.
They had still been hoping for the best until then.
But now that the test report was out, they could no longer deceive themselves.
Li Guotai made an immediate decision, "Immediately isolate this ward, everyone except the relevant medical staff get out, and go get disinfected and injected."
"Liu Jing, you go and implement the control measures, report Wu Bin’s situation to the Health Department, and then set up a cordon outside."
"Yes, President!"
Under the direction of Li Guotai, a group of people began to take action.
He Bingbing and the other staff members were also asked to leave the ward.
Although they could stay inside the cordon, they could only live stream Wu Bin through the glass window.
At the same time, several nurses donned protective gear and began to disinfect and sterilize the entire ward where Wu Bin was located.
Standing outside, He Bingbing said in puzzlement, "It’s just the rabies virus, shouldn’t it be unnecessary to go this far?"
Yin Yourong, while giving her an injection, said, "The rabies virus is quite terrifying, after all, there is no specific remedy."
"If you can’t get the rabies vaccine within the first few days after being bitten, once it breaks out, death is certain."
At this point, Yin Yourong’s expression turned somewhat sombre.
Having spent some time with Wu Bin, Yin Yourong had grown to like him.
She thought Wu Bin was a very positive and optimistic boy, at least after going through so much illness, ordinary people might have long since lost the will to live.
But Wu Bin not only lived on strongly, but he was also very happy and confident.
Yin Yourong felt that Wu Bin always had an energy about him that she greatly admired.
But was all this truly coming to an end?
Seeing the doctors dressed in protective gear and the nurses transferring patients from other wards on the same floor, the netizens in the live stream were somewhat baffled.
"Can rabies really be that serious? It feels like there’s a biological weapon in the ward."
"The person above, you probably don’t know how fierce the rabies virus is; if it’s not tightly controlled, once the virus spreads, it’s no less than zombies besieging the city."
"Our village once had a dog that got rabies, then the Health Department’s people came over, and all the cats and dogs in our village were killed and disposed of harmlessly."
"The main thing is, this thing kills! With a 100% fatality rate, do you want to bet on the odds with the Almighty?"
"The real gambler never flinches, place your bets!"
Yin Yourong and He Bingbing briefly explain what rabies is about.
He Bingbing, who had not been taking it seriously before, suddenly had tears welling in her eyes.
She had never imagined that rabies could be a terminal illness!
She had not foreseen that the fate of someone with rabies could be so tragic!
At this moment, Wu Bin, who was restrained in the hospital room, somehow managed to push out the cloth strip from his mouth.
Wu Bin began to scream and shout, and he started becoming restless.
"Ah! It’s so itchy, my whole body is itchy, It feels like there are bugs crawling on me!"
"Let me go, I want to dance, I want to sing, I want to go running!"
Seeing Wu Bin so agitated, Professor Zeng pushed up his glasses while standing to the side.
"We can basically confirm now, Wu Bin has fully entered the acute phase, and he’s exhibiting encephalitic clinical symptoms."
Rabies is divided into four stages, which are: incubation period, prodromal period, acute period, coma, and death period.
The incubation period is easy to understand.
It’s the period after you’ve been infected by animals like cats and dogs, or other creatures that carry the rabies virus, during which the virus remains dormant inside you.
During this time, you wouldn’t display any abnormal symptoms, appearing just like a normal person.
This incubation period generally lasts between twenty to sixty days.
But there are the unlucky ones who may incubate the virus for over a decade before it becomes active.
There are numerous factors that can affect the duration of the incubation period, but I won’t delve into those right now.
The second stage is the prodromal period.
That is when the rabies virus in your body starts to attack your immune system, causing inflammation as it wreaks havoc in the body.
In this stage, the patient may experience symptoms like headache, fatigue, fever, and sometimes a sensation as if ants are crawling on the skin.
The third stage is the acute period.
In this phase, those with better physical conditions can last several days.
This stage is mainly divided into two types of symptoms: encephalitic and paralytic.
Encephalitic is just like Wu Bin’s current condition, where the individual is agitated and restless, with the whole body feeling as if ants are crawling all over it, making life unbearably painful.
The paralytic type involves muscle weakness, gradual paralysis, unclear speech, loss of swallowing capability, similar to a fool.
The fourth stage is the last one, coma and death.
This is the final stage in a patient’s life.
The patient’s immune system is completely defeated, the body surrenders, ultimately leading to death from respiratory and circulatory failure.
What puzzled doctors like Li Guotai was that Wu Bin was brought to the hospital immediately after being bitten by a dog.
Even the hospital staff didn’t have enough time to administer the rabies vaccine, yet Wu Bin skipped the incubation and prodromal periods, manifesting the disease on the spot!
Strange, this is really too strange!
Professor Zeng asked, "Dean, we’ve never encountered a situation like Wu Bin’s before, do you think the virus he’s infected with might be a mutated strain of rabies?"
At these words, Li Guotai instantly broke out in a cold sweat.
"Although we in the medical field are all for bold conjectures and cautious verification, your speculation is really too bold!"
"If there really is such a mutant virus, I can guarantee, it would definitely be a disaster for all of humanity!"
The only method to treat rabies in the world right now is to use a rabies vaccine before the virus becomes active, buying time for the body to develop corresponding antibodies.
But if the rabies virus has truly mutated, skipping the first two stages, then humanity’s doomsday is nearing.
Professor Zeng was also alarmed by his own words.
He said somewhat awkwardly, "It’s not my fault, after all. Wu Bin is right here before us, exhibiting symptoms. It can’t just be that his constitution is different from ordinary people, leading the rabies virus to activate early, right?"
