dtnovels Chapter 570 - 259: A Truly Shocking Existence Throughout History
Chapter 570 - 259: A Truly Shocking Existence Throughout History
The next day.
Gu Ji was receiving an electrolyte infusion when he suddenly heard the system prompt in his sleep.
[Objective: Discover and report the public health crisis completed!]
[Please choose your reward!]
[Immunity Boost (Large)] or [Anthrax Antibodies (Special)]
He slowly opened his eyes, the sunlight spilling into the isolation ward made him instinctively squint.
Looking at the reward options in front of him.
Yellow [Immunity Boost (Large)]: Increases immune system capability by 45%, enhances the body’s antiviral capacity by 24%, increases the number of specific T cells by 29%, and weakens virus mutation within the body by 72%.
Historical [Anthrax Antibodies (Special)]: Data sourced from the United States Department of Defense DTRA Threat Reduction Agency’s Military Strategy - CBEP Cooperative Biological Engagement Program, results from the research at the Wushan Base’s Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Protection Research Institute, completely immune to all types of natural anthrax bacterial invasions of the skin, lungs, intestines, with a 98.7% probability of being immune to lab-grade weaponized anthrax invasions.
Anthrax antibodies?
Gu Ji looked at the second reward option, and his mind suddenly became clear.
It seems the United States is indeed researching biochemical weapons at the Wushan Base, especially this "CBEP Cooperative Biological Engagement Program," which seems to have significant intent.
But this level mainly revolves around the MERS virus and has nothing to do with anthrax.
Even in reality, it’s of little use.
After all, to use weaponized anthrax, it would either be a terrorist attack or a large-scale biochemical war. Relying solely on personal immunity would have limited impact in such a battle.
In contrast, the applicability of the immunity mark is much stronger.
Even if unable to self-eliminate the virus within, a person with high immunity would at least be an asymptomatic carrier, especially the ability to "weaken virus mutation within the body," which almost grips the virus by its vital roots.
Because viruses, unlike bacteria, fungi, parasites, and other infectious diseases, can mutate rapidly, making them extremely difficult to control.
A single virus may often mutate into four or five, or even dozens of types.
A yellow light descended.
Whether it was psychological or the outstanding effect of the immunity boost,
Gu Ji felt his body was much more comfortable than last night.
[New objective: Keep the number of infected regions below 7 (inclusive)!]
[Current number of infected regions: 3]
"Infected regions?"
Gu Ji mumbled repeatedly, trying to recall the locations of the infected regions from the South Korea MERS incident, he couldn’t remember them clearly, roughly seven or eight, with one being particularly special, an imported case from Xiangzhou.
He quickly took out his phone and dialed Jiang Youzhen’s number.
She seemed busy with work, the sounds of flipping through documents were audible through the receiver, "Mr. Jin, is there something you need?"
"Can you help me contact the Disease Management Headquarters, especially the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters?"
The two organizations Gu Ji mentioned are equivalent to the Central Disaster Response Center domestically, which is a special solution command center established for sudden crisis events like natural disasters, public health, and major accidents.
Thanks to the yellow-level language specialization.
These potential cultural name changes have already become instinctual to him.
The advantage of a central special command is that it can bring together top experts nationwide to discuss strategies.
And implement nationwide unified management.
In an emergency, this can maximize the central government’s coordination ability to resolve crises in the shortest possible time.
"I might be able to find a way to contact the Disease Management Headquarters for you, but the Central Disaster Countermeasures Headquarters hasn’t been established yet. According to national security regulations, like during the 2009 and 2010 pandemic flu spreads nationwide causing 3 million infections, the state would initiate the ’Countermeasures Headquarters’, but we are not at that stage yet."
"What did you say?"
When Jiang Youzhen explained the first time, Gu Ji thought he must be feverish and heard it wrong.
But when the other party repeated it a second time,
he realized that Jiang Youzhen wasn’t joking.
Gu Ji really wanted to curse.
Those South Korean Government countermeasure experts, are their brains kicked by a donkey!
What does 3 million infected mean?
In 2015, South Korea’s total population was about 50 million, which means, by that standard, 1 in 17 people must be infected nationwide to qualify as an emergency state.
According to the World Health Organization’s published MERS virus mortality rate of 38%,
1.14 million people need to die before the South Korean Government would be anxious?
In the entire history of humanity, that’s an explosive number!
Suppressing his inner anger, Gu Ji explained the situation, providing a simple analysis, "Not establishing the disaster countermeasures headquarters, to perform emergency management now, is equivalent to allowing the virus to spread, and it could spread to other countries!"
"Mr. Jin, though you say that, MERS is not highly contagious, the National Health Institute has just published confirmed information on the website, reminding citizens to pay attention to personal protection."
Gu Ji was still waiting for Jiang Youzhen’s following words.
"And then?"
"Then there’s nothing else."
"Nothing else!?"
Gu Ji was thoroughly dumbfounded.
Even the most basic emergency management, public hospital listings, and blockades of hospital areas haven’t been implemented.
Reporting this shit, what’s the use?
No wonder other countries kept their MERS cases from imported infections consistently between 1 and 4, while South Korea’s numbers surged post the first confirmed imported case.
Putting aside the virus mutations,
there is a significant issue with the South Korean Government’s level of awareness, reaction methods, and sense of responsibility; they simply haven’t paid adequate attention to the MERS virus invasion this time.