Chapter 991 Still in Hawaii (1)
Ford F150 and Camaro flashed their police lights and pulled long sirens, and it took less than 15 minutes to arrive at a residential area, here At this time, it was completely blocked by HPD police cars.
Usually only one blockade was drawn up, but now there were three. The innermost tape was a scary red color. Three police cars were parked side by side at a time, blocking all intersections.
All the police officers stood outside the first two layers of the blockade. Most of them didn't know what was going on. They looked nervously at a building completely wrapped in transparent plastic sheets. The house whispers.
Danny led everyone to the last blockade and went to find someone to understand the situation. When he came back, the expression on his face became even more ugly.
"What happened? The police officers outside said that this was just an ordinary family case at the beginning." Kono also walked around outside, but obviously did not ask for any valuable information.
"Except for waking up and finding that I was a foot shorter, this is probably the scariest nightmare I have ever heard." Danny, who is only 165cm tall, is quite good at making fun of himself.
“The wife called 911 to say that her estranged husband was trying to break into the house. As soon as the HPD officers arrived, the husband collapsed on the front lawn of the house, bleeding to death. His body was covered with toad-like skin. The CDC initially determined it was hemorrhagic smallpox. The governor just called me again and hoped that we could conduct the investigation as secretly as possible."
"A secret investigation? "Jack looked at the number of police officers around him, "I bet it won't be until tomorrow morning that the news of the deadly virus will spread throughout the island."
"I thought smallpox had been declared extinct by the World Health Organization as early as the last century." Perhaps because he had just left school not long ago, Kono's knowledge reserve was obviously the richest among the three in front of him, which is also a reality.
After most people leave the learning stage, the "useless" knowledge in their memory that is not used in daily life will be slowly forgotten. Therefore, the phenomenon of people becoming more sophisticated as they age is more reflected in sociology. , rather than in natural science.
Of course, most people have heard of smallpox, a deadly virus that is as famous as the "Black Death". Many Chinese people mistake the small scars on their arms for smallpox vaccination, that is, Leftover after cowpox.
In fact, most Chinese people have not been vaccinated against cowpox since the 1980s, because as early as 1980, the WHO (World Health Organization) announced that the smallpox virus had been eliminated.
In 1981, China stopped vaccinating newborns with cowpox, and the small scars on the arms of people born after that were actually left by the BCG vaccine. The full name of that thing is attenuated bovine Mycobacterium tuberculosis suspension. It is used to prevent tuberculosis.
"So what does hemorrhagic smallpox mean? The military's biological weapon?" Cheng Hao realized something was wrong as soon as he spoke, and quickly lowered his voice.
Jack also lowered his voice and replied, "Hemorrhagic smallpox is also called 'black smallpox'. The mortality rate of ordinary smallpox virus is 30%, while the mortality rate of hemorrhagic smallpox is 97%."
< br>These words made everyone change their expressions, and they subconsciously took two or three steps back.
“You don’t need to be so scared, I have completed the cleaning and disinfection.”
A figure wearing a one-piece protective suit swayed in front of a few people, and with the sound of "Puff" He took off his helmet, revealing his round, chubby face and wearing black-rimmed square-rimmed glasses that looked very silly at first glance.
His voice had almost no ups and downs when he spoke, like a robot.
Jack's eyebrows were slightly raised. This was another familiar face, Hiro Nakamura from the American TV series "Heroes" who could travel through time and space at will.
"Wow, Max, did you get this equipment from NASA? You look super cool in it." Danny teased.
Nakamura Hiroshi. Well, the young Asian man here who should be named Max didn't seem to hear the ridicule in Danny's tone, and bowed his head seriously to thank him. "Thank you, I feel the same way, but this outfit makes me itchy all over."
Kono, who was still kind-hearted, couldn't stand it, and took the initiative to introduce Jack, "This is Max Bergman, a medical examiner from the Honolulu Coroner's Office." Well, Jack is not afraid of any superpowers. What he is afraid of is the plot line in the original drama "Heroes" that becomes increasingly unfulfilled as it goes on. Almost everyone in it behaves as if they have been cast into a halo of mental retardation.
So he shook hands with Max, who had taken off his protective clothing, in a friendly manner, "Were you checking the body just now?"
The latter showed little emotion on his face. Still nodded to him sternly, "Before the CDC moved the body away for cremation, I did a rough inspection."
"Cremated?" Kono was not surprised by the CDC's decisiveness in handling the body, but He asked with some worry, "But without a body, it means we have lost all the clues. What about the subsequent investigation?"
"Don't worry about this. I have collected blood and tissue samples, and also taken a lot of photos." Max showed everyone his camera in a waterproof bag.
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Leaving the scene to the CDC, everyone took Max back to the "Five-O" office.
“This is mom’s taste.” Max held Jack’s noodles in chicken soup and thanked him solemnly with a serious face, making him dumbfounded.
"The photos have been processed." Kono looked uncomfortable in front of the computer, "I hope you will have a good appetite after reading these photos."
A set of scalp-numbing photos appeared on the big screen in the conference room, the kind that would make patients with trypophobia faint on the spot.
"The deceased's name is Brian Palmer, 36 years old. He retired from the Army ten months ago. He had been stationed in Iraq before. He has been living on allowances since he was diagnosed with PTSD." Kono called out the deceased. identity information.
From the pre-life photos of the deceased on the screen, it can be seen that he was an ordinary-looking white male. In contrast, there is a set of corpse photos just taken by forensic doctor Max.
The dark red ecchymoses all over the body have made it impossible to judge his original skin color. Even more terrifying than this are the numerous herpes, large and small, some of which have broken and scabbed, but most of them are just one A bulging yellow-green abscess.
The face, arms and even the insteps of the feet, all exposed skin were covered with such horrific abscesses, making the deceased completely unrecognizable.
The only two people at the scene who remained calm-faced were the forensic doctor Max and the half-forensic doctor Jack. Max's appetite was not affected at all and he finished the noodle soup in one go before patting his belly with satisfaction.
With a distressed look on his face, Danny motioned to Kono to quickly take down these corpse photos.
"As far as I know, soldiers stationed overseas will be injected with a bunch of vaccines, and smallpox vaccine should be among them, right?" Cheng Hao asked.
Max wiped his mouth with a tissue and nodded, "But the vaccine will be ineffective. Early research once thought that the validity period of the smallpox vaccine was lifelong, but later research showed that depending on each person's constitution, Smallpox vaccines are generally effective for about 3-5 years.
After that, the degree of protection will gradually decrease and eventually become completely ineffective. ”
Danny scratched his head and made a stop gesture. He had just recovered from nausea, "Shouldn't what we really should be discussing be how this guy was infected with this virus that has been confirmed to be extinct?"
(End of this chapter)