A British adventurer faces going blind after contracting a potentially deadly infection while trying to visit every country in the world.
David Simpson, 38, had already visited 150 countries before picking up latent tuberculosis in South Asia.
The Belfast local said the illness began attacking his left eye, causing flashing lights and blurred vision and forcing him onto powerful medication and immunosuppressants as doctors tried to stop it getting worse.
‘I’ve done a lot of travelling in South Asia last year and I ended up contracting latent TB, which is a non-contagious form of tuberculosis (TB),’ he said.
‘So it was actually attacking the
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