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Woman suffers severe vision loss after mysterious ‘cat-scratch’ infection – Yahoo News Australia
The woman had been in the company of a number of cats but didn’t recall being scatched.
A woman has suffered severe vision loss after being around a number of cats.
The woman, 55, from New Zealand went to doctors complaining of blurry vision and pain in the right eye for a number of days, according to her case in the New England Journal of Medicine.
An ocular examination revealed severe vision loss (she could only count fingers), a relative afferent pupillary defect, and reduced colour vision in the right eye, researchers wrote.
Parts of the woman’s eye were swollen which doctors put…
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