blindness
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There is, as Tbakhi experienced, a potential for continued complications—as well as long-term neuralgic pain called postherpetic neuralgia, blindness, and encephalitis.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
Though most people recover, it can cause pneumonia, blindness and swelling in the brain, and erase the immune system’s memory, leading to easily acquired secondary infections.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
In 1987, Merck’s life-changing pill for river blindness had no market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Vision issues are a distinctive red flag, particularly blurry vision, trouble looking at bright lights, and in some cases complete blindness.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Her skin glowed bright enough to cause snow blindness.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
What seems particularly unfortunate about the break is that each man had an acute sense of the other’s blindnesses.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
Yet reviewing also reflects an era’s biases and blindnesses; even food writers’ tastes shift with the times.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 7, 2016
Helen has her raffish and unscrupulous side but is also capable of engineering her own breakthroughs of insight, and of looking at her blindnesses square on.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2013
As a kind of self-made king, he falls into the first of his blindnesses, the idea that he can give away his possessions and his crown and yet retain power in his person alone.
From Time Magazine Archive
She told it in her own way with characteristic blindnesses and hardnesses, but the truth of it was this.
From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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