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Several people say they have used EzriCare lubricating eye drops, now withdrawn from the market, and have suffered permanent vision problems. To date, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified 68 patients in 16 states with infections with a foreign strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria, resistant to the medicines that are normally used to combat it and that had never been reported in the country.

Several people say they have used EzriCare lubricating eye drops, now withdrawn from the market, and have suffered permanent vision problems. To date, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified 68 patients in 16 states with infections with a foreign strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria, resistant to the medicines that are normally used to combat it and that had never been reported in the country.