"Then there's a problem with this."
Ding Yuwei put down her phone. "Think about it. On the 23rd, Wang Lei was taken to the hospital. They said he'd had a fever for several days, which means he was already in the symptomatic stage."
"Let's assume the symptoms started on the 20th. That means there was an incubation period before that. Wang Lei had a wound on his chin, which is pretty close to his head. We'll give it a ten-day incubation period, which means he was bitten before October 10th."
"In other words, if this cat was the source of the infection, it would have already been symptomatic and contagious by October 10th. A cat's window for transmission is only two or three days, after which it dies immediately."
"By that calculation, the cat should have been dead for about 15 days. In this weather, decomposition would be a bit slower, but it definitely wouldn't look like this."
Judging by the state of decay, the cat in front of them had probably been dead for less than a week.
