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In terms of h1n1 infection, Morton's pig farm has two doubts.

One is where the virus comes from.

Is it naturally synthesized in the pig's body, or is infected by birds to pigs, or is artificially synthesized and transferred to the pigs. Both Qi Jing and Sipher prefer the latter, but they have to pay attention to evidence in everything, and random guessing is not in line with the scientific spirit.

If the virus is really leaked after artificial synthesis, the most suspicious thing is Steve who left the pig farm. Not only is he the mastermind behind it, but at least an important part of the middle.

Now Steve is missing, Qi Jing has no way to check it out.

[11-24 Investigation Record: Steve, a swine flu virologist at North Carolina State University, left the Leon Morton Pig Farm from 11-23, and his whereabouts were unknown. I want to know his laboratory address and all his related papers.

ps: Prepare my work permit, don’t be temporary! This is very important!!!]

Qi Jing quickly typed a paragraph in the email and sent it to Sif.

I have limited abilities, but with Siphon as my backing, and I am a well-known and well-known researcher at the State University, so it is not difficult to find this guy.

The question facing Qi Jing now is another doubt in the pig farm: if the pig farm is the starting point of the virus, how did they spread to Lehn.

In the two records of obstetric diagnosis, he seemed to have caught the key figure connecting the two places, Ella. But like the previous question, everything has to be verified with evidence. If she was the bridge three months ago, now the nucleic acid must turn negative. The easiest way to determine whether she has been infected with h1n1 is to test IGG. (1)

After H1n1 infection, the antibody IGG will generally remain in the body for three months. Most people will not gradually decrease after half a year, so IGG is also an important indicator to detect whether they have ever been infected.

Since the temperature rose the night before yesterday, Ella has been resting in the bedroom. She was pressed against oseltamivir, and her symptoms were not serious, and her body could handle the half-hour drive. In addition, Qi Jing had just received the identity of a "special consultant" in niaid. Logically speaking, as long as she gave her some more money, she should be willing to go to the hospital for examination.

But it was such a simple process. Qi Jing usually held it in his hands, but this time he felt a little relieved. Given Ji Qing's previous experience, he was always thinking about the hunting rifle that pushed Ji Qing's forehead.

After coming out of the conference room where Kaj was, he was hesitating for a while, but finally hesitated and stopped his actions.

Qi Jing is now tracing the origin. Time is not his enemy. For women like Ella, you can wait for them. The distrust of strangers can be completely relieved by Morton and his son. If you don’t have morning, just wait for the afternoon. If you don’t have afternoon, there will be evening. If you don’t have today, you can wait for tomorrow, the day after tomorrow.

Anyway, the pig farm is here, so their family can't escape.

Even if h1n1 is rampant here, Qi Jing can basically isolate the spread of the virus by paying attention to the cleaning of his face and hands, keeping a social distance of about 2 meters from others, and then wearing a mask.

......

As the breeding industry gradually becomes industrialized, labor costs are infinitely compressed. Pig farms require fewer and fewer staff, and each pig shed only needs 2-3 people to operate.

After wandering around the pig farm for half a circle, Qi Jing didn't see anyone and couldn't ask about the situation. Finally, he swayed and returned to the construction site of the new pig shed.

At this time, Morton was supervising the decoration process on the front line with the symptoms of not recovering.

After he moved from Texas to North Carolina, the pig farm has been operating well. However, Morton himself knew very well that under the beautiful veil of net income of 100,000 yuan per year, there were hidden dark shadows.

The annual income of the Hundred Thousand Mids is not small, but it is only for a simple family of three.

Even so, the average income of each couple is only 50,000 meters per year. Just reaching the threshold of the middle class, it can only be considered an ordinary family in the United States. But for Morton, the family of four, including Little Morton, needs to be supported. If Ella's child is born, it will be five.

Putting aside the children, Little Morton has long been adults. On average, their annual income is only more than 30,000 yuan per person.

This little money can definitely support the family, but it is just about supporting it, and life is definitely not easy. Moreover, there are other pig farms around Lehn, and the competition is no less than in Texas. Morton, the pillar of the pillar, dare not relax.

In order to make a profit, he tried every possible way.

In the end, Morton found that he would face two problems if he wanted to make money. In order to solve these two problems, Morton had to sign a cooperation agreement with the University of North Carolina. The university appointed researchers to help solve the problem. At the same time, Morton needed to open a small number of pig farms to serve their various experiments.

One of the questions is how to increase production scientifically.

This is not difficult to solve by Kaj’s various model formulas and previous breeding experience. In addition, the increase in the initial investment in building a new pig shed will naturally increase the returns.

The second question is how to avoid risks.

These risks include pig health risks and other artificial risks.

Regarding the health problems of pigs in pig farms, veterinarians assigned by North Carolina State University are generally responsible for the responsibility of veterinarians. Steve will come here from time to time to do sample surveys to see if there is any risk of infectious diseases.

Among the artificial risks, complaints and lawsuits are the most troublesome, and Morton suffers a lot.

The land in pig farms is limited, so in order to increase production, it is necessary to increase the number of pigs per unit area as much as possible. The more industrialized management is, the more damage it will cause to the surrounding environment, among which the odor in the air and the water quality flowing through this area are all triggers.

In addition to the operation of the Animal Protection Association, the living space required by each pig in the pig farm must also be strictly guaranteed.

From the moment they moved here, people would occasionally jump out to make trouble, shouting that the farms did not respect animals and were inhumane. At first they were abused, and then they began to look for scientific weapons to help themselves appeal.

Ironically, these people quoted two topic reports by Zelin and Steve, "The relationship between the intensity of the pig farm odor and the blood pressure of the people around them" and "The swine flu virus born from industrial breeding sites."

The previous article was written by Zelin and was published in the journals "The American Journal of Public Health" and "Environment and Health Outlook".

Since it was published and had a PhD from North Carolina State University, what Zelin wrote could naturally be evidence. For this reason, Morton specially bought these two magazines, and still stayed in the office, and he had to take them out and read them from time to time.

"This female doctor is quite awesome, and she has completely different personalities with Kaj..." Qi Jing looked at Zelin who was installing a fecal and urine treatment machine in the distance and joked, "It's not easy to get along with her."

"It's not just about personality, but also about position. At the beginning, the requirements for the construction of pig sheds were really high. They had to be ventilated, cleaned up feces regularly, gave pigs enough exercise space, and provided sufficient light sources... But later, it was better to get used to it. Now the air in the pig farm is also good, and pig manure can be sold to other farmers."

Morton rationally described the previous struggle history: "She did this to save the pig farm from prosecution, and at the same time, she also used this relationship to experiment with her own research on the data of her subject."

"Starting from the smell, it should be that air quality testing is performed, such as hydrogen sulfide and some suspended particles." (2)

"I was really anxious at the beginning. The pig shed was very crowded and the cage was probably only so high. There was definitely no guarantee of the light for more pigs."

Morton made a gesture, and it seemed that it was just as high as the pig shoulder, and it was difficult to turn around: "Later, it was criticized by the Animal Protection Association and the Animal Humane Association. The court also sent hard pig farming indicators, and there was no way to change it. These old pig sheds were renovated, and this time, the newly built ones had to get a new machine they got."

"It is not difficult to understand when measuring air and body temperature, and then finding correlation."

Qi Jing doesn't like experiments, but he understands the design rules. As long as he follows the rules, he can generally understand the way they handle the experiments: "I just don't quite understand how the data from Dr. Steve's article came from. Has he gone to other farms to do experiments?"

"I'm not very clear either."

This is a troublesome for Qi Jing's source traceability.

If Steve had other experimental pig farms, things would not be that simple. The originally envisioned infection chain would be untenable. He lacked the case data inside the CDC and did not know when to reorganize it.

"By the way, that magazine is in your office?"

"Yeah..." Morton smiled, "It's not an office, it's just a study at home. If you want to go, go get it yourself, I really can't leave here."

"Go to yourself?" Qi Jing was a little scared.

His fists are hard and he is good at judo. It is very easy to beat ordinary gangsters. But when facing firearms and modernized hunting rifles, he has no chance of winning: "Your wife is afraid of having sex and doesn't know me. That gun is really... You also know that my friend was scared by her the night before yesterday."

“Hahaha~~~”

Morton patted his shoulder: "It's okay, Ella is sleeping upstairs, my study is on the first floor. After you go, go directly to find Monica, my eldest daughter."

"Didn't she go back to Texas?"

"It's not that there's too much happening recently, so I can only call her back."

Morton had no choice. The pig farm had consumed too much energy. Ella was pregnant and was feeling unstable. Her youngest daughter needed someone to take care of her. The two of them got influenza together. Under heavy pressure, he had to continue to persevere.

"Okay, I'll try it."

Qi Jing smiled, and there seemed to be a sense of fear of hunting rifles on his face. Suddenly he changed his mind and asked an unregulated question: "By the way, did your wife go to Lehn once at the end of July?"

"End of July?" Morton thought for a while and nodded slightly: "It seems that I have been there. I drove there. What's wrong?"

"Did you go to the clinic for prenatal check-up?"

"No, it's not a prenatal checkup," Morton explained. "In fact, it's just that she's uncomfortable, and the thing stopped and didn't come, so she went to check it out."

"Don't you go to the doctor's clinic if you feel uncomfortable? Why did you go to the prenatal examination?"

"She didn't come for two months, so we thought we were pregnant, so we ran to have a checkup."

"Has it been done?"

"I did it, and I was indeed pregnant, but it seemed that I was only 4 weeks old and the prenatal examination was not done."

Morton's answer confirmed Qi Jing's previous hypothesis that Ella did go to the prenatal examination clinic. Although she did not do it, she stayed in the clinic for at least a while. But judging from the expression, Ella did not seem to have any signs of being infected with h1n1.

"When you went there, weren't you feeling any discomfort?"

"It's uncomfortable..." Morton shook his head, "Ira said she was a little dizzy. When she went to the clinic, she said she had a little anemia after getting pregnant. She asked her to take more iron folate and other things."

"No body temperature was taken?"

"No."

"Are there any symptoms like this?"

"No, no at all."

Qi Jing took a deep breath, and his nose was filled with the faint smell of pigs in the pig farm: Could it be an asymptomatic infected person...

"Is there something wrong?" Morton was a little worried, "but the results of the prenatal checkup were good afterwards. Dr. Beckett said everything was normal."

"Where is Tang Silk?"

“It’s all normal.”

Qi Jing's question is almost the same. If the two of them are really infected with h1n1, they should be asymptomatic infections. Even if they are not asymptomatic, they must be a mild disease.

After leaving Morton, he turned around and returned to the Morton family's residence.

There is a very good garden in front of the door. Although it is not far from the pig farm, after accepting Zelin's reconstruction suggestions, the smell here is much better than before. In addition, the flowers, plants and trees are planted, and there is a refreshing fragrance.

Ella's little daughter was playing there, holding a doll in her hand, and riding around and around in a small three-wheeler.

Qi Jing thought she was the only one playing, and wanted to go up and tease her. By the way, she put a few words on her to ask about the situation at home recently. But when she walked closer and looked closely, she found that there was still someone in the yard.

He was a girl in her twenties, wearing very ordinary casual clothes and long brown hair, and laying on the grass in broad daylight without restraint.

After living in the large flat floor at Qi Jing's house for a long time, I also wanted a private garden in front of the door that was similar to this one. Judging from the specifications, the size is just right, but the interior decoration and vegetation are a bit rougher. If you take good care of it, it will definitely look much better.

Qi Jing stood at the door
Chapter completed!