Because of the epidemic, the words "super communicator" and "poison king" came into our field of vision. The so-called "super-spreader" means that a patient of a disease has infected more than 10 people, and all the infected people have been diagnosed, then this patient is called a "super-spreader" or "poison king". In human history, "Poison Kings" are not uncommon, but in Berlin, Germany, Gloria Ramirez, a patient with advanced cervical cancer, is called "Poison King", she created the most appalling "Poison King" in history. Poisoning incident": During the process of rescuing her, all 23 people in the emergency room developed symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and even temporary paralysis.
Why is Gloria so "poisonous"? Recently, the German magazine "Bunte" solved the mystery.
Abandoning the entire emergency room
On April 3, 2020, the emergency room of the Renai Hospital in Berlin, Germany was busy as usual.
At 9 a.m., Best got a call from an ambulance driver saying he was picking up a cervical cancer patient on his way back and getting him ready for an appointment. 10 minutes later, the ambulance rushed into the hospital. Although Best was prepared, he was surprised by the patient in front of him: the woman named Gloria Ramirez had a drop in blood pressure, Shortness of breath, life on the line.
Gloria's husband, Raul, came with the car. He trembled and told Best about his wife's condition: Gloria was diagnosed with cervical cancer three years ago and has been undergoing chemotherapy for the past few years. Unexpectedly, her condition deteriorated rapidly, and she has reached the advanced stage of cancer. "This morning, I accompanied my wife for a walk in the community, and everything was normal at first, but ten minutes later, Gloria said that her heartbeat was too fast and it was very uncomfortable, and her face turned pale immediately. , I had to call the ambulance."
After learning about Gloria's situation, in order to relieve her tachyarrhythmia, the medical staff first injected her with several drugs to calm her down. But the effect of the drug did not seem to be obvious, and Gloria's heart was still racing, so Best decided to defibrillate her.
However, something strange happens when Gloria is undressed in preparation for an electric shock. Nurse Susan noticed that Gloria's bare skin was oily, as shiny as freshly smeared with lard, and her mouth had a strong smell of garlic mixed in.
As an experienced medical staff, Susan did not panic, she methodically helped Gloria draw blood. During the blood draw, she smelled an ammonia odor, and found some gray and white particles floating in the collected blood sample.
Susan got up and carefully handed the blood sample to the female doctor Julie. Julie just took the sample when Susan suddenly fell to the ground and fell unconscious.
Julie hurriedly kept calling Susan. After ten seconds, Susan woke up and said weakly that she was very uncomfortable, dizzy, nauseated, and had a burning sensation in her head. Before she could finish speaking, she fell into a coma again.
To save Gloria from the hospital bed, three nurses carried Susan out of the emergency room. But when the nurses returned to the emergency room, they were stunned by what they saw. I saw Julie's face turned pale and gasping for breath. A nurse asked her what was wrong, but Julie couldn't speak at all, just pointed her head with her finger. Just when the nurses were at a loss, Julie swayed and fainted on the ground, not responding no matter how much she called.
Two people fainted in succession, and Best had to report the situation to Bill, the hospital director. Bill, who has been a doctor for more than 30 years, has never encountered such a situation, so he hurriedly called a neurology specialist for consultation.
But as soon as Bill stepped into the emergency room, the respiratory therapist Maureen fainted in front of him: "Evacuate quickly! Maybe Gloria has biochemical items on her body!" Soon, everyone in the emergency room was temporarily evacuated to the parking lot field. Fearing a second spread of the toxic chemical, all medical staff in the emergency room had their clothes cut off and sealed in plastic bags.
Although Gloria in the emergency room looked very dangerous, the medical staff did not give up on her, but after 45 minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation, she still failed to save her life. Gloria was pronounced dead, and her body was quickly sealed in a hermetically sealed aluminum coffin.
With such a big incident in the emergency room, Lauer became the biggest investigation object, and he vigorously denied that he and his wife were carrying biological items. Hospital staff conducted a rigorous investigation of Lauer's home and found no traces of biochemical items in his home.
Just when everyone was confused, Lisa, the nurse responsible for pushing Gloria's body into the isolation room, also fainted, and another nurse became unable to move her limbs and was paralyzed on the ground. By 6pm, the number of unwell people was increasing, with 23 of the 37 emergency room staff experiencing symptoms including nausea, vomiting, dizziness, shortness of breath, burning skin, and temporary paralysis.
Considering the reputation of the hospital, Bill did not call the police, let alone report it to the German biochemical department. Combining the symptoms of the injured, the arriving staff first conducted a comprehensive search of the emergency room. Subsequently, the inspection scope was expanded to the entire hospital, but no toxic chemicals were ever found. To Bill was a little relieved, except for Julie and Susan, who were still rescuing, the other nurses and doctors were fine.
Bill's face was solemn. He knew the seriousness of the situation, and he comforted the symptomatic medical staff to keep silent about what happened. On the other hand, he rushed to the ward to visit Julie and Susan. Two days later, Susan was transferred from the ICU to the general ward, while Julie needed to continue to observe in the ICU. Best asks Julie not to talk nonsense to the media, she can ask anything she wants. Julie didn't want to cause trouble either, she agreed to Best.
The confusing reason
In Bill's view, Julie stayed in the ICU for a few days, and she could return to the general ward when her condition improved. However, a week later, Jolie's condition took a turn for the worse. Not only did she have severe breathing problems, requiring a ventilator 24 hours a day, she also developed hepatitis and pancreatitis. Bill was puzzled, even if Julie was poisoned, she shouldn't have such symptoms. In desperation, Best had to convene experts from multiple departments in the hospital for a joint consultation with Julie. However, after some discussion, no reasonable explanation could be reached.
Julie's life was in critical condition, and her parents were very angry at the hospital's incompetence. They found Bill and said that if the cause of Julie's illness could not be found as soon as possible, they would call the police. Bill was having trouble sleeping and eating. A saying began to circulate on the Internet. Someone posted that some doctors regarded the hospital as a virus-producing factory, because the nurse mistakenly injected the raw materials of methamphetamine into Gloria during the infusion that day. Gloria's body, which in turn accelerated Gloria's death, and also affected the entire emergency room.
The argument of catching wind and shadow makes Bill suffer from the enemy. Julie's parents protested that he used the hospital as a factory for refining methamphetamine, and unidentified netizens also enthusiastically asked the police to intervene in the investigation. Julie's parents came out and said that they took videos and photos of Julie's treatment in the ICU. Under their hoarse protests, netizens sided with them and asked the hospital to investigate the matter as soon as possible.
On April 15, the autopsy of Gloria arrived as scheduled. Worried that Gloria's body was still releasing highly toxic after her death, the pathologists wore gas masks. However, the results showed that Gloria's death was due to advanced cervical cancer leading to kidney failure, and finally died of arrhythmia. This result disappointed Julie's parents, and netizens even questioned the hospital's attempt to cover up the truth.
Julie's parents traveled everywhere, but her condition continued to deteriorate, with ischemic muscle dysfunction, and she could barely move. Parents are worried about their daughter's condition. They ask doctors around the world for help online, but no one can answer their questions.
Before the burial, pathologists conducted three autopsies on Gloria's body, and the body tissue was sent to more than 20 laboratories for testing, and no problems were found. Looking at the investigation report, Bill was in trouble. "Gloria is not highly poisoned. How do you explain the 23 medical staff who suddenly collapsed in the hospital?" Bill thought of mass hysteria. Could it be that the medical staff collectively had hallucinations and thought they were poisoned, so they fell down?
Following this line of thought, Bill came up with his own idea: Because of the strange smell on Gloria's body, which triggered the conditions for the occurrence of hysteria in the medical staff, more women were sick than men at that time, which was in line with the general law of hysteria. But what makes Bill difficult to justify is that there are several ambulance workers who have been in contact with Gloria, and none of them have developed symptoms. But Bill didn't have time to think about it. This was the best explanation he could give the public so far.
23 people were unwell one after another, and Bill explained the reason as hysteria. Susan, who is a nurse, knows that group hysteria mostly occurs in high-pressure people or groups with weak psychological quality. According to common sense, it is not common for medical staff with generally higher psychological quality to have group hysteria, and group hysteria after receiving psychological treatment They can all recognize the reality clearly, and the many diseases that are showing now obviously cannot be explained by hysteria.
Julie was also angry when she learned of Bill's investigation results. During this period of treatment, she suffered great physical and mental harm. After being discharged from the hospital, she is likely to be unable to work again, and she will need a wheelchair to travel. She needs a reasonable explanation from the hospital, not Bill's evasive guess. Soon, under the contact of Susan, the medical staff who had symptoms at the time took the hospital to court.
Under the pressure of public opinion, the hospital invited Digas, an expert from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, to participate in the investigation. Based on the symptoms of the medical staff, Digas concluded that these people were indeed poisoned, but who would have been poisoned in the emergency room?
Digas investigated the staff in the emergency room and denied the suspicion of poisoning by the staff. In the end, Digas' attention still fell on Gloria: "Is it because Gloria knows the time Not much, have the idea of revenge on society? But if she really deliberately poisoned, why did the hospital's inspection that day found nothing?"
Taking the hospital's investigation report, Digas suddenly found that Gloria was in the second grade. The base sulfone is seriously exceeded. "Is it the dimethyl sulfone that poisoned the medical staff?" Digas immediately denied his guess, because dimethyl sulfone was not toxic at all. For a while, Digas' investigation was stagnant, saying that the bell still had to be tied, and he decided to talk to Raul to see if there would be any new clues.
Knowing the purpose of Tigas' visit, Raul told him that since his wife's cervical cancer entered the advanced stage, in order to relieve cancer pain, she often applied large doses of dimethyl sulfone on her body, so her body was very oily.
An unexpected alternative truth
Tigas knew that the biochemical precursor of dimethyl sulfone is dimethyl sulfoxide, which acts as an analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug to prevent the transmission of pain nerves. However, in animal experiments, it was shown that, Long-term exposure to dimethyl sulfoxide can affect the lens of animals' eyes, so clinical trials of the potentially risky drug were discontinued. But at the same time, dimethyl sulfoxide has become popular among the people, and it is mostly used in athletes' arthritis and muscle strains. And Gloria also hopes that DMSO can help her relieve the pain of cancer pain.
After visiting the medical staff, Digas' judgment was confirmed: when he saw Gloria's oily body, it was the effect of applying a lot of ointment. And according to user reports, DMSO does have a garlic-like taste. In addition, during the rescue process, Gloria absorbed a lot of oxygen, which caused the conversion of DMSO to DMSO, which explained the high content of DMSO in the report. Dimethyl sulfone will crystallize at room temperature, and the room temperature in the emergency room was only 18 degrees at that time, which is also in line with the gray-white crystals observed during the blood draw.
When a series of conjectures were gradually confirmed, Digas suddenly became enlightened. But what always lingers in my mind is that neither dimethyl sulfone nor dimethyl sulfoxide is highly toxic. What is the explanation for the successive symptoms of 23 medical staff? Digas made a bolder guess. Is it possible that dimethyl sulfone can be converted into toxic substances under certain conditions? In order to uncover the mystery in his heart, Digas sent a letter of help to the Global Research Institute.
This wait is three months. Digas got good news from the hospital. Julie has been transferred to the general ward and can also walk on the ground. Jolie withdrew her case after receiving 2 million euros from the hospital.
Julie is fine, but this is no excuse for Digas to solve the mystery. One weekend in August, Tigas and his wife were not going anywhere, enjoying a holiday at home. Suddenly there was a rumbling sound of thunder outside, "The thunder is a bit abnormal at this time." Listening to his wife's complaint, Digas also made the same complaint. Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he hurried to drive and headed straight to the laboratory. In the lab, Tigas put dimethyl sulfone into the experimental equipment, then increased the voltage to shock it, and after a while, the dimethyl sulfone changed color. "Why didn't I think of it! Why didn't I think of it!" Digas screamed excitedly like a child.
The product of the experimental results was assayed, and it was confirmed that dimethyl sulfone was converted to dimethyl sulfate. Digas knows that as long as 1 cubic meter of air contains 0.5 grams of dimethyl sulfate, human beings will die if exposed to it for 10 minutes, and even mild poisoning will cause convulsions, paralysis, coma, and delayed kidneys and livers. and heart damage.
Digas deduced the whole process of Gloria's "poisonous hair": Gloria, who was coated with dimethyl sulfone, was sent to the emergency room for rescue, and the doctor treated her with electric shock and defibrillation. It was under the electric shock that the dimethyl sulfone on Gloria's body was converted into dimethyl sulfate, so the emergency room staff suffered and fell down, especially those closest to Gloria. were more seriously injured. Dimethyl sulfate evaporated completely in the blood again, so this creepy and highly toxic ingredient escaped the search of the researchers that night.
Many researchers did not agree with Digas' conclusion. They tested by electric shock and found that the amount of dimethyl sulfone converted into dimethyl sulfate was not large, and the low dose of dimethyl sulfate was not enough to cause such a problem. scale of lethality.
After reading Gloria's medication list, Tigas' answer is more complete. Due to her terminal illness, Gloria went to the doctor in a hurry. In addition to smearing dimethyl sulfone, she also took a lot of drugs that were not clinically tested. It was these drugs that not only damaged her immunity, but also left a lot of Drug residues. The drugs further induced the DMSO switch, which culminated in a biochemical farce that exploded during defibrillation.
So far, the truth of Gloria's "poisoning" of medical staff has been completely revealed, but Digas is not happy at all. In recent years, cancer treatment methods and drugs have been introduced, but there is still a long way to go to completely treat cancer. In this case, patients often go to the doctor in a hurry, the disease is not cured, and various unexpected problems may occur. To Digas's slight relief, the medical staff who were poisoned at the time have recovered and returned to work. After this ordeal, they have a new understanding of life.
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