A lab worker's body is turning numb after catching a deadly rare virus - from a research monkey. Brian Lee, 60, is one of around 20 people in the world with herpes B virus and has been living a 'nightmare' for the past 10 years. The virus is harmless to primates but fatal to humans in 70 per cent of cases if untreated, causing inflammation of the brain and spinal cord which leads to paralysis. Mr Lee, of San Antonio, Texas, was struck down with it while working at Texas Biomedical Research Institute, where 2,500 primates are tested for research into diseases such as AIDS. His job was to clean enclosures and feed monkeys.
Every day he layered up in a protective bodysuit and glasses to protect him from splashes and bites. Brian Lee, 60, is one of around 20 people in the world with herpes B virus and claims he has been living a 'nightmare' for the past 10 years But in the summer of 2008, water splashed in his eye when he was spraying down a cage.
He was also cut by a shard of plastic that tore his bodysuit. On August 19, after undergoing a routine medical exam for B virus, he received a phone call telling him he had been infected. He was rushed to hospital where he spent six days hooked up to an IV and having various tests before being prescribed anti-viral medication and discharged. Ten years on, Mr Lee said his life has never been the same and revealed how, starting with his face, his body has gradually turned numb. The grandfather-of-four said: 'It has been a nightmare. 'Before this happened I felt like can i purchase cheap valtrex pill (valtrex4people.top) was in control of my life and there wasn't anything I couldn't do. 'Then I got the diagnosis and it was surreal.
I was in shock. I knew I had an exposure but the possibility of actually having the virus was remote. Mr Lee, of San Antonio, Texas, was struck down with it while working at Texas Biomedical Research Institute, where 2,500 primates are tested on for research into diseases such as AIDS (pictured with his wife Margarita) 'I didn't know what the next step would be or what the next day would bring and I was totally traumatized. 'Knowing that most people die within days of getting it...
at that point, what do you do? I was in the doctors' hands.'
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