Doomsday Bunker Upgrade Chapter 485: Viruses and Medical Devices

Because the nuclear reactor is used as the power source, the mobile base does not need to stop and refuel like conventional vehicles, and the crew cabin inside the mobile base ensures that the mobile base can continue to move forward even at night, and the rest of the personnel is not enough. will affect the operation of the mobile base.

But even though it was night, Chen Xin still didn't rest.

On the one hand, the vibration and noise from the car made him a little sleepy, and on the other hand, he was still thinking about Lucia's discovery of an ancient virus.

The existence of ancient viruses is something that scientists have determined a long time ago.

These ancient viruses that have been buried in the ground for tens of thousands of years are completely different from the various modern viruses that humans are facing today. The most critical point is that the various conventional antibiotics used by humans are not effective against ancient viruses. effect.

Some people may think that modern viruses are more powerful than ancient viruses. The viruses that humans are facing now have been baptized by antibiotics and have evolved continuously. Modern viruses have no way to deal with humans. What can ancient viruses do?

And the virus is adaptive, it is specially evolved according to the different hosts, and it is not compatible with humans, how can it infect humans?

Worrying about an ancient virus is nothing but misgivings.

However, these views are dead wrong.

Humans are not afraid of viruses now because we have built a complete defense system with antibiotics and modern medicine to keep the harm of viruses to humans out of the human body.

In fact, without the protection of the modern medical system, without the immune system formed by a large number of antibiotics and vaccines, human beings are just weak and poor creatures in the face of various viruses in nature.

A new crown epidemic before the disaster has made human beings' vulnerability in fighting viruses to the fullest. Without the protection of the modern medical system, it is difficult for vulnerable humans to fight against highly lethal and transmissible viruses. Bet on the 1 in 10,000 chance of herd immunity.

However, even with the protection of the modern medical system, it is still very difficult for us to win against unknown viruses.

The war between humans and viruses is just a constant race against death.

The mutation ability of the virus is its most powerful weapon. Although modern medical technology is changing rapidly and developing rapidly, the mutation of the virus has also never stopped.

Humans can develop vaccines against a certain virus, but new viruses will always appear. In this war between humans and viruses, humans are on the defensive and can only passively defend .

The ancient virus is a new enemy that mankind has never faced before.

Fortunately, the extreme cold environment in the current apocalypse limits the spread of the virus, and the long distance between Yan Kingdom and Lucia physically blocks the channel through which the virus can enter the Yan Kingdom, which makes the Yan Kingdom temporarily useless. Worrying about the ancient virus gave Yan Guo enough time to deal with it calmly.

But this is only temporary. Previously, the fall of meteorites caused global fires, and glaciers in the North and South Pole, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the Siberian Plateau were all affected. Those ancient viruses buried under ice and snow and frozen for thousands of years have Unleashed, it is only a matter of time before their hazards and effects explode.

At present, there is no epidemic situation in the Yan Kingdom, but this does not mean that you can sit back and relax.

So what Chen Xin is thinking about now is how to prevent possible epidemics.

It is not difficult to prevent the invasion of viruses. At the beginning of the construction of each official shelter, the filtering of harmful substances in the air is considered. In the case of no accident, the virus cannot pass through the air. Spread into the shelter.

As for human infection, as long as health regulations are strictly enforced and prevention is strictly enforced, it is still possible to resist infection.

But passive defense can't solve the problem. With a shield, there is also an offensive spear!

Regarding this point, Chen Xin is not a medical scientist, nor is he an expert in virus research, but he knows a little bit, that is, the most effective means to fight the virus is the vaccine!

Vaccines are autoimmune preparations for the prevention of infectious diseases, which are made of pathogenic microorganisms (such as bacteria, rickettsia, viruses, etc.) and their metabolites through artificial attenuation, inactivation or transgenic methods. .

The vaccine retains the characteristics of pathogenic bacteria to stimulate the immune system of the animal body. When the animal body comes into contact with this innocuous pathogenic bacteria, the immune system will produce certain protective substances, such as immune hormones, active physiological substances, special antibodies, etc. .

Therefore, when the animal is exposed to this pathogen again, the animal's immune system will follow its original memory and create more protective substances to prevent the damage of the pathogen.

To manufacture a vaccine, the original strain of the virus is essential, and then it must go through multiple processes such as attenuation, filtration, animal experiments, and human trials.

Calculated according to the development process of vaccines under normal circumstances, the development of a vaccine usually takes more than three to five years, and a long development cycle of more than ten years can be put into clinical use.

So how to quickly and effectively develop vaccines and shorten the development cycle of vaccines is a very important thing in the process of fighting the virus.

Under normal circumstances, even if there is a lot of investment, this is not a quick thing, after all, there should be no less programs.

However, for Chen Xin, if ~IndoMTL.com~ has a system as the backing support, it can be considered to create a device that can quickly manufacture vaccines and achieve rapid mass production.

This is not difficult for Chen Xin to do.

In addition, Chen Xin also turned his attention to medical care because of this incident.

Perhaps it's time to make some useful medical equipment yourself?

Chen Xin felt that this matter could be put on the agenda.

He took out the small book that he had been carrying with him. It was full of various ideas and plans. Some of the things written on it had already been realized, some had changed, and there were also parts that had not yet been realized.

After writing the two items of medical equipment research and development and vaccine preparation equipment for viruses in the book, Chen Xin also took advantage of the situation to think about what kind of medical equipment he wants to make.

Manufacturing medical equipment itself is not a difficult task for Chen Xin, even if it is a medical cabin that can automatically perform operations and repair human trauma, and nano-robots that can enter the body to kill cancer cells...

For Chen Xin, these are not difficult things to do, but he feels that compared with various medical equipment for treatment, a light and compact testing instrument that can perform fast and accurate testing is the current solution. The thing that should be done first.

After all, many times, the difficulty is not how to treat, but how to detect and diagnose in time.

As for what kind of testing equipment to make, Chen Xin felt that the tricorder commonly used by the old bones in "Star Trek" is a very good choice.