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For the first time, Ebola has been discovered inside the eyes of a patient just months after the virus was gone from his blood.
Dr. Ian Crozier, 43, was flown last September to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for treatment after contracting Ebola while working in Sierra Leone. After a serious battle, he was eventually deemed cured and released.
But a burning sensation in his left eye, a sensitivity to light and the feeling that something was stuck in his eye continued to bother him. Later he suffered blurred vision, pain and inflammation, and the colour of his eye turned from grey to green. When doctors tested the aqueous humour, the watery substance inside the eye, it tested positive for Ebola.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/deadly-ebola-virus-lurked-grew-eye-cured-physician-doctors-discover-1500253
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 09 2015, @09:34AM
Now we can all have freaky eyes! Please stop moving these infectious people around the world. Isn’t it a observation that a virus is never fully removed from the body when "Cured?" Just suppressed enough that you don't suffer much or at all. Is the "suppressed" virus as good as a vaccine if you contract it? Surprise surprise a bug goes where you didn’t expect it. NO! You can't contain it. DNA "data" wants to be free! Your not it's master or owner; just it symbiotic partner or its food.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 10 2015, @11:10AM
Why shouldn't these people be moved from places with poor healthcare to places with good healthcare? Ebola isn't much of a problem if handled properly, that is why it is a big deal in Africa, but not in western countries with proper healthcare systems. As Ebola is only spread through bodily fluids, if the virus was only in the aqueous humour (the bit between the cornea and iris) and not present on the surface of the eye then it isn't likely to be much risk of spreading to anyone.