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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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Good to see a pillar bank being progressive in appointing a young woman to the top job.
I’d be scared of her.
Poached? How can they afford that? Why can’t they offer more competitive interest rates for instance instead of wasting their money on overpaid overpriced exec’s from England?
@An_Beal_Bocht:
Yawn
@An_Beal_Bocht: I’m pretty sure they are in the black now so I’m sure they can well afford to pay her a decent wage. And if you’re not happy with their interest rates go elsewhere- Ulster Bank and KBC both have more attractive products on offer.
A bailout loan was only €3.5m? Is that supposed to be billion?
I would like to know if she was involved with any of money laundrying schemes for organized crime which HSBC was convicted if a couple of years back
Not good at all. This is going to backfire spectacularly.
@Rockhopper617: Why?
€950000 a year-that’s around €17000 a week without bonouses wow! the poor woman i think i’ll send her on a few bob,
Another riSe in your bank statements to pay for the poaching
Another heartless hatc -faced creep who couldn’t care less about the customers.
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