Eye doctors warn of damage from lasers

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Eye doctors warn of damage from lasers

Doctors from the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, report on the case of a nine-year-old boy who showed up at their hospital after being blinded by an adult playing with a handheld laser. "Until he came in, no one had realized there was an actual injury and we saw the bleeding," Dr. Cynthia Toth, one of the authors of the new report, told Reuters Health. "You can start a fire with the power that was coming out of that one." Toth is a professor of ophthalmology and biomedical engineering at Duke.

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