Chennai records rare form of eye disease
A Chennai hospital has detected a rare form of eye disease called microsporidial keratoconjunctivitis. The disease can make a patient blind, if untreated.
After its first detention in 1973, the disease is more severe than the usual Madras eye and can last for more than a week. The outbreak came noticed when a women came to the hospital fro treatment and was wrongly treated as ordinary conjunctivitis. After a week or so, the doctors have tested her eyes and found protozoa, instead of a virus or bacteria that cause conjunctivitis. There were ulcers on the eye. That is when they confirmed it as microsporidial keratoconjunctivitis.
In the next 14 days, one person tested positive for the infection every alternate day. All patients were in between 25 and 36 years old and from areas like Alandur and Pazhavanthangal.
Source: The Times of India
Filed under Conjunctivities, Eye Diseases, microsporidial keratoconjunctivitis.
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