房間中，一位頭發花白的華裔老人端著一杯茶從廚房走出來，坐在電腦跟前點開郵件。
老人一邊喝茶一邊看著郵件，表情漸漸凝重，抬頭看了看窗外，然後把茶杯放在了桌上，開啟了打印機。
幾分鍾後，老人站起來，取下打印出的郵件，走出門衝莊恕喊道：“Owen.”
莊恕關掉澆水器，轉過頭問：“爸，怎麽了？”
老人走過來，把手上的紙遞給他，皺眉道：“這件事，我想你應該知道。也一定會關心。”
莊恕放下澆水器，脫下手套，接過，見紙頁上是世界衛生組織發布的關於中國仁合醫院，爆發耐藥菌株肺炎的通報：
Outbreak of sever pneumonia in china：Since 10 days ago，one patient，a 67 years old retired teacher from jialin，china，was treated in Hospital of Renhe，The patient died soon after diagnosed of accurate pneumonia，and all of the doctors and nurses who taking care of her showed the same symptom the following two days，and soon get into sever condition within one week.Within only 8 days，30 patients in Renhe hospital and another 20 patients in other 2 hospital was found the same symptom and suspected as the same disease.Till yesterday，around 100 patients in jialin identified as suspected cases and quarantined，25 of them in sever condition，and 5 of them died.The health officials in china pays much attention to this epidemic and Renhe hospital and the other are quarantined.Armed force in control of the area.E coli‘superbug’which resistant to antibiotics thought to cause this epidemic.
（中國爆發高度傳染性急性肺炎：十天前，中國一位六十七歲的女性退休教師因高熱、咳嗽、呼吸困難在一所大型綜合性醫院——仁合醫院就診。診斷為肺炎的當天發生呼吸窘迫，感染性休克去世。在隨後的兩天內，與她接觸的五位大夫與護士，都發生了高熱和上呼吸道疾病的症狀，並在一周內情況危急。第一例患者發病八天內，仁合醫院發現了三十例類似症狀的患者，而所在城市其他兩所醫院內也共計發現二十例類似症狀的患者。截至昨日，該市共發現近百例疑似病例被隔離治療，其中二十五人情況危急，已經有五人死亡。中國衛生部已對此高度重視，對首發醫院仁合醫院采取了使用武裝警察封鎖隔離的措施。目前最新的發言稱，該次疫情爆發，跟E COLI耐藥菌株的變異有關。）