Chapter 1426: Chapter 1068: A Disease with a 100% Mortality Rate_2 Chapter 1426: Chapter 1068: A Disease with a 100% Mortality Rate_2 Since the virus had been eliminated, Yang Ping felt relieved and so did everyone else.

Zhao Yufan, a child, also received the same treatment as Sisi because the K virus therapy was equally successful on him. Now, the safety and effectiveness of the K virus therapy are still satisfactory. Yang Ping plans to recruit another group of volunteers for treatment, which can also gather more data and expedite the benefits to patients by giving some people early treatment. If waiting for the official launch of the K virus therapy, a formal procedure is probably inevitable, and even with expedited approval, it would take two to three years.

However, remembering the previous turmoil, Yang Ping abandoned the idea as he did not want similar disturbances to interfere with his research.

Seeing the lively Sisi and recalling the day and night efforts, Yang Ping felt it was very worthwhile, especially since this experiment had built up his confidence that he could solve problems on his own without the system.

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Yang Ping was just about to rest and go home for dinner when he received a call from Professor Su.

Nandu Affiliated Hospital One invited Yang Ping for an emergency consultation on a young scientist who suddenly fell ill with a strange disease while visiting family on vacation and was urgently sent for treatment at Nandu Affiliated Hospital One. Due to the severity of the illness, he had been admitted to the ICU, with a preliminary diagnosis of rabies.

Rabies, with a 100% mortality rate, perhaps due to the patient’s special identity, Professor Su had to invite Yang Ping to attend.

Emergency consultations cannot be delayed, Yang Ping immediately set off, making phone calls in the car to inform Xiao Su about the situation and that he wouldn’t be able to come home for dinner.

When he arrived at the ICU of Nandu Affiliated Hospital One, all the experts had already gathered in the Meeting Room waiting for Yang Ping, looking very serious. Director Luo of Nandu Affiliated Hospital One ICU immediately briefed Yang Ping on the patient’s condition.

Extreme fear, hydrophobia, fear of wind, drooling, breathing difficulties, spastic pharyngeal muscle convulsions, difficulty urinating and defecating, and excessive sweating, etc.

20 years ago, he had been bitten by a stray dog and did not receive a rabies vaccine at the time.

While listening to Director Luo summarizing the illness, Yang Ping flipped through the medical history.

Lastly, the diagnosis given by Nandu Affiliated Hospital One was: rabies.

Whether it is based on medical history, physical examination, or various auxiliary tests, all support the diagnosis of rabies. There is no doubt about the diagnosis.

However, with rabies having a 100% mortality rate, there are no options under current medical conditions.

Yang Ping decided to first examine the patient; he put on an isolation gown, wore gloves, and conducted a physical examination.

After examining the patient and washing his hands, he took off the isolation gown and returned to the doctors’ office to carefully review the patient’s medical history again.

Rabies! There was no issue with the diagnosis.

Professor Su said: “This patient is a bit special, he is in charge of a very important scientific research task in our country, the project is only halfway through. Without his involvement, the project would be delayed by at least 5-10 years before it can succeed, but now this project is extremely crucial for our nation, therefore the higher-ups have instructed us to go all-out in the rescue efforts and must find any possible way to save him, specifically requesting you to join the emergency consultation.”

Originally Yang Ping was a surgeon and should not have participated in consultations for infectious diseases, but since the superiors specifically requested, Professor Su had no choice but to comply; Professor Su is under great pressure now.

The intention from Beijing was to transfer the patient to Beijing for treatment as soon as
Professor Su slowly said: “Everyone, do not rush. The higher-ups will respect the objective facts and understand us, but even with a 100% death rate, we must make 200% effort.”

Yang Ping nodded and said, “Let me think about it.”

If it were in the past, he might not have said this, but after treating Sisi, he wanted to try any unresolved issue, regardless of success or failure. His passion and curiosity were always stirring in his mind.

Rabies, with a 100% death rate, what else to think about? Are there any new ideas?

Everyone was somewhat puzzled about what new ideas Yang Ping had; he is a genius, but geniuses are after all human.

Thanks to the ample time the system had given him, Yang Ping used the System Space to read a significant number of books and papers, utilizing the System Space to its full potential. He spent long periods alone in the System Space, accumulating a vast amount of medical knowledge, arguably reading more books and papers than anyone else.

Yang Ping lightly tapped the desktop with his fingertips, which didn’t produce any sound, but was merely to maintain a rhythm.

He pondered in his mind, rabies usually kills through nerve damage leading to organ failure. First, the nerves are affected, then the organs fail. Yang Ping struggled to recall the information he had read about rabies and synthesized it.

Fortunately, at that time he was engrossed in all the medical literature, regardless of the specialty. He never thought a Surgeon would attend a rabies consultation.

The current pathological research on rabies indicates that the brain damage in rabies patients is not caused by a direct attack of the rabies virus on the brain, but rather by complications of the disease.

Yang Ping thought, if there was a switch to pause the brain’s functions, it could protect the brain from complications while keeping the immune system functioning. Although the brain would be in a dormant state, the immune system could continue to fight the virus.

If so, during the battle between the virus and the immune system, complications would be unable to affect the dormant brain. If the virus is eradicated, wouldn’t the brain avoid disaster? If the brain dodges this bullet, it wouldn’t lead to subsequent organ failure. Thus, could the patient be saved?

In the past, Yang Ping might have laughed at himself for having such fanciful whims, but not now. Didn’t Sisi get saved because of his fanciful whims?

After all, with a 100% death rate from rabies, what’s the point of traditional treatment methods? Might as well try something new.

The root cause of death from rabies is not fully understood yet, and one extremely important hypothesis is the “neurotransmitter disorder” hypothesis. The core view of this hypothesis is that an imbalance of biomolecules in the patient’s brain leads to death. Animal experiments have shown that ketamine, an NMDA receptor antagonist, appears to serve as a bridge in balancing neurotransmitters in rabies patients.

At this thought, Yang Ping felt a flash of inspiration in his mind, forming some ideas, although they were not fully shaped yet.

“There’s not entirely no way out, I need to think it through clearly, I’ll talk about it later,” Yang Ping finally blurted out after a long thought.

Yang Ping finally understood why he could come up with those new ideas in treating Sisi: by reading extensively in the System Space, he had mastered a vast amount of knowledge. Sometimes, linking and combining this knowledge could spark imaginative ideas.

“Isn’t there really no way, big boss? This is rabies with a 100% death rate, do you have a way?”

Everyone looked at each other. If it were someone else, they would have laughed already, but they dared not mock Yang Ping, as this young man was indeed a genius, and he was also Dean Su’s son-in-law.

“Just give him symptomatic treatment for now, try to help him buy some time, let me think it over, and I’ll come over later.”

That concluded Yang Ping’s consultation, leaving even Professor Su a bit baffled.

On the way back from Nandu Medical University, Yang Ping sat in the car, also pondering this issue. With a 100% death rate, could he change his thinking, try a new approach, as there were no other options, why not try the new idea, as there’s nothing to lose if it doesn’t work.