cataracts -- Ebola's legacy

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

From: Jane Parkin
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 2:32 PM
To: Soroush Ebrahimi;


Ebola’s Legacy: Children With Cataracts - The New York Times

www.nytimes.com

Cataracts usually afflict the old, but doctors in Africa have been shocked to find them in Ebola survivors as young as 5. FREETOWN, Sierra Leone ...

[Hennie Duits]

I feel this is *truly* remarkable, and it should point to 'something'.
Question is, to *what*?

Hennie

Op 31-10-2017 om 15:52 schreef finrod@finrod.co.uk [minutus]:
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[Hennie Duits]

I didn't mean to ask to what remedy this should point, but to what
'principle', or something like that. Why would it migrate (if that is
what it does) to the eye? Does it need/want light? Is the eye a
safe/safer place to be?

I read:
"The distribution of these retinal scars or lesions provides the first
observational evidence that the virus enters the eye via the optic nerve
to reach the retina in a similar way to West Nile Virus."

I also read:
"Other issues that are ongoing for Ebola survivors who have already lost
so much are mental health issues, psychosocial stressors, problems with
pregnancy, arthritis, and arthralgia, Dr. Yeh noted."

So, it is more than just the eye.

You may survive ebola, but that doesn't mean the virus is gone. It may
stay with you all your life, and maybe you'll transfer it to your
children. Or, if you survive it in good health, you'll transfer your way
to deal with it to your children.

Hennie
Op 1-11-2017 om 1:19 schreef Hennie Duits he.duits@kpnmail.nl [minutus]:

[pb000014]

I remember something about the virus being detected in the aqueous humor some time after the patient was pronounced "cured"

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/844381

Regards,
Paul
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[Soroush Ebrahimi]

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Sent: 31 October 2017 14:52
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Subject: [Minutus] cataracts -- Ebola's legacy
From: Jane Parkin
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 2:32 PM
To: Soroush Ebrahimi;


Ebola’s Legacy: Children With Cataracts - The New York Times

www.nytimes.com

Cataracts usually afflict the old, but doctors in Africa have been shocked to find them in Ebola survivors as young as 5. FREETOWN, Sierra Leone ...