Chapter 282 Isolated Hogwarts

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St. Mungo's chief therapist Hippodrome Smethyk and trainee therapist Augustus Pye arrived at Hogwarts early in the morning.

"Go directly to the classroom for testing." Dumbledore led the two therapists to the first floor.

Astoria's class was having a Transfiguration class with Gryffindor, and Sean, the idler who was patrolling between classes, followed curiously.

Slytherin and Gryffindor were taking Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class, and when Dumbledore came to the door, Professor McGonagall stopped teaching.

"The situation is not optimistic. It's just that after a weekend, there were more symptoms among students." Professor McGonagall whispered in Dumbledore's ear.

Just two days later, students with magic disorders appeared like mushrooms after a spring rain, accompanied by symptoms such as listlessness and loss of appetite.

Even Draco, who was lying on the hospital bed happily eating the snacks sent by his classmates yesterday, was in a state today as if he had stayed up all night, his eyelids were drooped, and he couldn't cheer up.

Two-thirds of the students in Astoria's class had such symptoms, and the Gryffindor students who attended the big class together also seemed to be infected.

The two St. Mungo's therapists put on protective measures outside before entering the classroom, and their masks and gloves were tightly fitted.

After the two people came in, the attending therapist Hebocrat Smethyk reminded them.

"You'd better wear a mask and gloves. Look at this, even if it's not Barth's disease, it's still another contagious disease. But don't be afraid if it's Barth's disease. This is not the fourteenth century. It's easy to prepare antidotes."

Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall took masks from the hands of trainee therapist Augustus Pye, and the students underneath were chattering in confusion.

"Quiet." Dumbledore's loud voice echoed through the classroom, "Students, don't be nervous. Some of you may be sick and need to be tested."

The students were even more nervous now. They originally felt that something was wrong with their condition over the past two days, but after all, they were still young and had no serious symptoms, so no one cared about it.

"Ginny, I'm scared." A Gryffindor girl said from the left side of the classroom.

"It's okay, Dumbledore is here, don't be nervous." Ginny comforted.

In the classroom, 10 Slytherin students and 12 Gryffindor students lined up one after another, standing on both sides of the podium. Smesek was in charge of Gryffindor, and intern Pai was in charge of Slytherin.

"Put your hands out, relax, and just take a drop of blood on your middle finger," Pye said.

Astoria stretched out her right hand, and Pai wiped some alcohol on her middle finger with a cotton swab, and then pricked the middle finger skillfully and quickly with a thin needle.

"Here, squeeze it and drop the blood in." Pai said, holding up the ampoule.

Astoria squeezed a drop of blood into the ampoule. Pai immediately drew a drop of light yellow liquid with a dropper from a vial of about 50 ml, and dropped it into Astoria's ampoule. Then the lid was put on.

"Okay, what's your name?" Pai asked.

"Astoria Greengrass."

Pai waved his finger, and a quill flew out of his breast pocket. Under his control, the quill wrote Astoria's name on the ampoule.

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The ink in this quill is also customized by St. Mungo's Hospital. This ink can write on glass as clearly as writing on paper.

Fifteen minutes later, the blood collection of the 22 students was completed. At the request of the therapist Smesek, Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore also took blood.

"Sean, come here too." Dumbledore shouted to Sean outside the window.

Sean and Astoria have been in contact many times and should definitely get tested.

"Sir, if it's Barth disease, how is it spread?" Sean asked.

"It is spread through physical contact, indirect contact, and objects that the patient has touched, and the germs can survive outside the body for ten to twenty minutes," Smesek said.

"There shouldn't be direct physical contact, indirect contact?" Sean recalled, there must be indirect contact.

"Professor, does Draco's class also need to be tested?" Sean said.

"Well, let's go now."

The bottle of light yellow liquid is a special testing agent for Bath's disease. After the blood containing Bath's disease encounters the testing agent, the results will be available in about an hour. If the blood turns brown, it means infection.

Students who have been tested will have to stay in the classroom until the results are available.

One hour and 20 minutes later, the results of the blood reaction came out. What was terrible was that all the blood samples from Astoria's class, Ginny's class, and Draco's class were brown.

Even Harry's class, who occasionally attended classes with Draco, had a third infected.

A total of four classes were tested, and the infection rate reached 90%.

"Oh my god, it's screwed. According to this infection rate, the members of Ouroboros must have been infected, so at least one-third of the entire school will be infected." Sean estimated the number of people in his mind. Fortunately, he himself Shows not infected.

But just now Sean had learned about Barth disease from the trainee therapist Pye. It first broke out on a large scale in the fourteenth century and swept across Europe. At that time, no antidote had been developed, so the fatality rate reached 8%.

In the following centuries, Barth disease also occurred on a small scale in various European countries, but with the development of antidotes, the fatality rate dropped to one percent.

"No one has died from Barth disease now, and the antidote is also being perfected. Three years ago, a wizard village in Germany was also infected with Barth disease. It was controlled and treated promptly, and all the patients were cured within half a month." Pye said.

"But the infection rate." Pai muttered.

"What?" Sean asked.

"It's okay. Once everyone in the school is tested, St. Mungo's can prepare an antidote and we can control it."

Sean thought that this was similar to the flu in Muggle society. He had experienced a flu outbreak when he was a child. Schools were closed and they were asked to go home. It would get better after a while and it would not be a big problem.

There are 396 students in the school, plus 20 faculty members, 9 house elves, and two therapists. It took until three o'clock in the afternoon to finish testing them all.

At about 4:30, everyone's blood sample results came out, and the number of infected people surprised even the therapist Smethyk.

"There are actually 270 people!" That's more than half the number of people in Hogwarts. This infection rate has exceeded the first outbreak of Bath syndrome in the fourteenth century.

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Many of these students may have been infected in the past few days and did not show initial symptoms.

"Director, this infection rate has not been so high in previous cases in various countries. Could it be?" Pai hesitated.

"You want to say that the germs evolved and mutated and spread through the air." Smesek also thought of this possibility.

If it spread through the air, that would be terrible. Hogwarts would have to be locked down immediately, and even students who had been to Hogsmeade on the weekend would have to investigate their whereabouts.

When Smesek told Dumbledore this conjecture, Old Deng's face darkened. He did not hide it from the teachers and students, and immediately informed the whole school.

"For safety reasons and to facilitate centralized treatment, the infected teachers and students are staying in the auditorium, and other students are staying in the dormitories. Hogwarts will suspend classes starting today."

The infected students below were in an uproar. They had never experienced such a large-scale infectious disease. The students with poor mental qualities could not control their emotions and cried.

"Quiet, listen to me. There is an effective treatment for Bath syndrome. The therapists at St. Mungo's will treat everyone as soon as possible before Hogwarts can resume classes." Dumbledore used the amplifying spell to spread the word throughout the school. Said loudly.

Sean finally knew, "Voldemort brought Astoria back with a biological weapon."

However, apart from the higher infection rate of Bath's disease, unless the symptoms are very severe in the later stages, wizards cannot cast spells. The symptoms in the early stage are still relatively mild, and the fatality rate is currently zero.

"Voldemort is knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger?" Sean secretly thought.

Except for Sean, everyone in the Ouroboros was infected, Chris came into contact with Cassius again, and except for Hermione, the other two people in the Harry trio were admitted to the Great Hall.

That night, the "Evening Prophet" immediately reported the outbreak of Bath Syndrome in Hogwarts. The Evening Prophet would only print additional copies when major events occurred.

Dumbledore seemed to be afraid that Voldemort would take advantage of the situation, so he contacted Fudge in the afternoon and sent five more Aurors to protect Hogwarts.