After Nearly Claiming His Life, Ebola Lurked in a Doctor’s Eye
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[QUOTE]When he was released from Emory University Hospital in October after a long, brutal fight with Ebola that nearly ended his life, Dr. Ian Crozier’s medical team thought he was cured. But less than two months later, he was back at the hospital with fading sight, intense pain and soaring pressure in his left eye.
Test results were chilling: The inside of Dr. Crozier’s eye was teeming with Ebola.
His doctors were amazed. They had considered the possibility that the virus had invaded his eye, but they had not really expected to find it. Months had passed since Dr. Crozier became ill while working in an Ebola treatment ward in Sierra Leone as a volunteer for the World Health Organization. By the time he left Emory, his blood was Ebola-free. Although the virus may persist in semen for months, other body fluids were thought to be clear of it once a patient recovered. Almost nothing was known about the ability of Ebola to lurk inside the eye.
Despite the infection within his eye, Dr. Crozier’s tears and the surface of his eye were virus-free, so he posed no risk to anyone who had casual contact with him.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]He also had significant hearing loss on the same side. “The whole left side of your life is gone,” he said. “It was a very dark and depressing time.”
He spent Christmas in the hospital with his younger brother Mark, who had stayed with him constantly throughout his illness and recovery.
[b]The pressure inside his eye, which had been dangerously elevated, began to drop — too much. The eye became doughy to the touch, as if it were turning to mush.[/b]
“The eye felt dead to me,” Dr. Crozier said.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/health/weeks-after-his-recovery-ebola-lurked-in-a-doctors-eye.html?smid=tw-nytimes[/url]
[img]http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/05/08/health/08EBOLEYE/08EBOLEYE-master1050.jpg[/img]
Oh my, that's eerie looking.. Ebola gives me the creeps the more I find out about it.
No more butterfly kisses during physicals for me! Sorry doc
So how do you cure this?
[QUOTE=download;47682223]So how do you cure this?[/QUOTE]
[quote]Dr. Jay Varkey, an infectious-disease specialist who had handled much of Dr. Crozier’s care, got special permission from the Food and Drug Administration to use an experimental antiviral drug taken in pill form. (The doctors declined to name it, preferring to save that information for future publication in a medical journal.)[/quote]
[QUOTE=download;47682223]So how do you cure this?[/QUOTE]
[quote]As the days passed with no sign of improvement, Dr. Crozier and the Emory team began to think he had little to lose. Dr. Jay Varkey, an infectious-disease specialist who had handled much of Dr. Crozier’s care, got special permission from the Food and Drug Administration to use an experimental antiviral drug taken in pill form. (The doctors declined to name it, preferring to save that information for future publication in a medical journal.) They were not even sure that the drug would find its way into Dr. Crozier’s eye.
To add to the treatment for inflammation, Dr. Yeh also gave Dr. Crozier a steroid injection above his eyeball that would slowly release the drug into his eye.
At first, there seemed to be no effect. But one morning a week or so later, Dr. Crozier realized that if he turned his head this way and that, he could find “portals” and “wormholes” through the obstructions in his eye and could see his brother Mark, who was sitting on the end of his bed.
Gradually, over the next few months, his sight returned. Surprisingly, his eye turned blue again. A video shows him excitedly calling out letters on an eye chart as he works his way down to smaller and smaller type, with his brother and the doctors standing by, laughing.
Was it the antiviral drug? He cannot be sure, but he thinks so.
“I think the cure was Ian’s own immune system,” Dr. Varkey said, explaining that he suspected the treatments had reduced Dr. Crozier’s symptoms and helped preserve his sight long enough for his immune system to kick in and clear out the virus — just as supportive care during the worst phase of his initial illness had kept him alive until his natural defenses could take over.[/quote]
[editline]8th May 2015[/editline]
ninjad
Anything to do with parasite/virus shit in my eye is an instant nope from me.
That being said, im glad the guy got his vision back, and his eye didnt explode with ebola.
"Although the virus may persist in his semen for several months"
Just imagine having sex and then finding out you just got Ebola from it.
holy shit thats terrifying
I can't imagine what it feels like, or how scary it'd be, to slowly lose your eyesight and hearing, even just on one side. That's the shit out of fucking nightmares
[QUOTE=Hilton;47682467]"Although the virus may persist in his semen for several months"
Just imagine having sex and then finding out you just got Ebola from it.[/QUOTE]
Well in Africa where its really a problem its not exactly the only thing you're going to find, I mean they have aids, a large array of STDs , and a bunch of orphan diseases, so ya Ebola just gets added to the list
That almost looks like his eye is dying not not decaying. Blue to green and the texture of it changes this is weird and new to me.
the doc's eye completely returned to normal, after the treatment.
[IMG]http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/05/08/science/08EBOLAEYE/08EBOLAEYE-articleLarge.jpg[/IMG]
Truly amazing how the human body can repair itself like that.
[QUOTE=Wizards Court;47684517]the doc's eye completely returned to normal, after the treatment.
[IMG]http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/05/08/science/08EBOLAEYE/08EBOLAEYE-articleLarge.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
returned to normal, but did it recover? can he see fine from it?
Article says his vision has returned, but is not the same as it was, or as strong as his other eye.
[QUOTE=27X;47689199]Article says his vision has returned, but is not the same as it was, or as strong as his other eye.[/QUOTE]
i'll be honest, i haven't found the part where it says his vision wasn't fully healed, i think you're confusing the part which says some ebola survivors can have that with the rest of article which is about the doctor himself.
being a doctor would make that 100x scarier, knowing the ins-and-outs of what's happening to you as it's happening
The human body is some tough shit sometimes, god damn.
[QUOTE=Rocko's;47682196]Oh my, that's eerie looking.. Ebola gives me the creeps the more I find out about it.[/QUOTE]
I mean, the shit feeds on connective tissue. It actually can disconnect your skin from your bones and your face can hang off your skull. Along with the fact that you can throw up your esophageal lining I can't imagine anything being more horrifying than that.
[editline]9th May 2015[/editline]
I'm just glad the ebola that went around seemed to be one of the more forgiving strains
Ebola can hide in the eyes?
28 Days Later confirmed.
[QUOTE=geogzm;47689724]being a doctor would make that 100x scarier, knowing the ins-and-outs of what's happening to you as it's happening[/QUOTE]
Honestly, I'd rather have that than just feeling my body slowly shut down on me and feel myself slipping towards death with no idea what's happening to me.
[QUOTE=geogzm;47689724]being a doctor would make that 100x scarier, knowing the ins-and-outs of what's happening to you as it's happening[/QUOTE]
i'd feel like it'd take away part of the shock
[QUOTE=Wizards Court;47684517]the doc's eye completely returned to normal, after the treatment.
[IMG]http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/05/08/science/08EBOLAEYE/08EBOLAEYE-articleLarge.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
He is growing stronger.
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