![]() ![]() In a case report published this week in JAMA Ophthalmology, eye doctors at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, part of the University of Miami Health System, reported details of one case linked to the outbreak-a case in a 72-year-old man who has an ongoing infection in his right eye with vision loss, despite weeks of treatment with multiple antibiotics. In addition to the deaths, eight people have reported vision loss and four have had their eyeballs surgically removed (enucleation). A total of 68 people in 16 states have been infected with a rare, extensively drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain linked to the eye drops. Further Reading 68 now sickened, 4 lose eyeballs in outbreak linked to eyedropsThe death toll now stands at three, according to an outbreak update this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ![]()
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