EBOLA HAS BEEN FOUND HIDING IN THE EYE OF DOCTOR WHO EARLIER SURVIVED IT;CHANGED HIS EYE FROM BLUE TO GREEN

Dr. Ian Crozier who became ill and later survived  

Ebola after working in an Ebola treatment ward in Sierra Leone as a volunteer for the World Health Organization is back to the hospital and Ebola Virus is said to be lurking in his eyes and turned it from blue to green color.

According to New York Times, Dr Ian was released from Emory University Hospital in October after a long, brutal fight with Ebola that nearly ended his life, his medical team thought he was cured. But less than two months later, he was back at the hospital with fading sight, intense pain and soaring pressure in his left eye.

So Dr. Steven Yeh, an ophthalmologist, pierced Dr. Crozier’s eye with a hair-thin needle, drew a few drops of fluid from its inner chamber and sent them to the lab. The results came as a shock.

Test results were chilling: The inside of Dr. Crozier’s eye was teeming with Ebola Virus that had replicated inside his eyes.

His doctors were amazed. They had considered the possibility that the virus had invaded his eye, but they had not really expected to find it because by the time he left Emory Hospital last October, his blood was Ebola-free. 

Although the virus may persist in semen for months, other body fluids were thought to be clear of it once a patient recovered. Almost nothing was known about the ability of Ebola to lurk inside the eye.

Despite the infection within his eye, Dr. Crozier’s tears and the surface of his eye were virus-free, so he posed no risk to anyone who had casual contact with him.

Source : New York Times