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A PATIENT WHO had been given the all clear frm Ebola has discovered the virus in his eye.
Months ago he was told the virus was gone from his blood.
Ebola has infected more than 26,000 people since December 2013 in West Africa. Some survivors have reported eye problems but how often they occur isn’t known. The virus also is thought to be able to persist in semen for several months.
The new report concerns Dr. Ian Crozier, a 43-year-old American physician diagnosed with Ebola in September while working with the World Health Organisation in Sierra Leone.
High blood pressure in one eye
He was treated at Emory University Hospital’s special Ebola unit in Atlanta and released in October when Ebola was no longer detected in his blood. Two months later, he developed an inflammation and very high blood pressure in one eye, which causes swelling and potentially serious vision problems.
He returned to Emory, where ophthalmologist Dr. Steven Yeh drained some of the fluid and had it tested for Ebola. It contained the virus but tears and tissue around the outside of his eye did not.
That suggests that casual contact with an Ebola survivor poses no public health risk, but shows that survivors need to be monitored for the eye problem, Yeh said.
Vision
Crozier has not fully recovered his vision but continues to improve, Yeh said.
Dr. Jay Varkey, an Emory infectious disease specialist, said those involved in Crozier’s care wore recommended protective gear and monitored themselves for Ebola symptoms for several weeks afterward as a precaution.
Doctors discussed the case at an Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology conference in Denver on Thursday, and the New England Journal of Medicine published their account online.
The WHO said that the number of Ebola cases reported in Guinea and Sierra Leone last week dropped to its lowest total this year.
And Liberia, which has had the most deaths in the outbreak — more than 4,700 — plans on Saturday to declare the outbreak over in that country unless new cases are discovered.
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Was his name Bruce Banner by any chance?
Why in Seamen? Does this apply to the vessels passengers?
Lame. Are you ten or ten and a half by the way?
Looks like he dropped a couple of yokes
You’re easily amused lads
There ain’t no way to hide those ebola eyes .
The Eagles .
Lets not forget many on here predicted a massive western outbreak of this virus, spread ignorance of how it’s spread and conspiracy theories about the virus being patented. Remember who they were, and maybe take them less seriously next time they make predictions of doom.
Thankfully most people didn’t buy what they were selling once they got the info, but the minority got very quiet once it all died down.
Do you mean Glen, Frank, and CNBC?
These were their claims:
-The US has ebola patented (patents of viruses are illegal and unconstitutional and have no status in law)
-Ebola is spread by sneezing and coughing (ebols does not make you sneeze or cough and there is not enough virus particles in phlem to infect you) ebola is spread through semen and blood for the most part)
-There would be a ”massive” western outbreak
-We should close our borders to Africa because there is a virus in Liberia (which would be like saying we should close our flights to North America because there is disease on the Falkland Islands or southern Argentin). Also ignoring that this would mean aid can’t get in…the epidemic thus gets worse and spills over borders anyway this time unconstrained.
-They are keeping secret that it’s airborne (only one type of ebola is airborne and that type was neither of the ones that were active in Africa at the time)
-We should not evacuate westerners back for treatment as they’ll spread the disease (proven wrong)
-We should keep people quarantined for 30 days after coming home (even though we have a PCR test that can tell us within hours if they are infected)
The CDC does have a patent on one strain of Ebola. Patent granted to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2010, Patent No. CA2741523A1.
With regard to coughs and sneezes, Ebola can and does survive in AERSOL form, at 50% relative humidity for the better part of a day, and on surfaces, a month, at 4 Celsius. Reference, The Journak of speed microbiology ISSN 1364-5072
I didn’t go through your other points. Valid they may be..
IMHO we dodged a bullet.
Journal of applied…
So viruses are the harlequins of disease, you never know what they do until they do it, so nothing is predictable about them. It is one way to spread the disease like the way herpes act as in cold sores etc… they hid until no one expects them and then da da?
There is no such thing as high blood pressure in the eye. I presume you mean high intraocular pressure?
There is, its known as Ocular Hypertension, my mother suffered from it
You’re both correct. Ocular Hypertension = high intraocular pressure.
There can be hypertension in the eye. My type 1 diabetic friend suffers from it (along with other diabetes related issues).
Telling ya, it’s the zombie apocalypse!
Apple will be releasing a firmware update to deal with the eye issues.
The eyes are Windows to the soul so Microsoft will step in, no?
I can see myself in an old Quarry defending against these green eyed zombies.
He’s probably a replicant so I reckon Android will be releasing the update.
So, he got semen in his eye?
Hulk smash!
Always though Crystal Gayle looked a bit Ebolay.
Eye don’t believe it!
Iris in work when I heard the news!
That would be the cocktail of untested drugs he took.
There is no such thing as high blood pressure in the eye. Perhaps you mean high intraocular pressure??
We had no clue the first time you posted that diagnosis .
My father had green eyes. My mother found them most appealing! ;-)
Horrible disease
Oh No… more fear mongering from WHO again?
The right eye, knowing the left eye was jealous of it being so normal, said ‘don’t be so green eyed’.
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