Doctors are learning that Ebola has a nasty habit of sticking around. Dr. Ian Crozier, who worked with the World Health Organization in Sierra Leone, thought he had won his life-threatening battle against Ebola in October, but two months later he was back in the hospital complaining of intense eye pain and fading sight. Doctors discovered the Ebola virus was still living in his eye, and, in a freaky twist, had turned his eye from blue to green.
A doctor was told he had been cured of Ebola. But the virus was lurking in his eye http://t.co/miBC2vzq0Hpic.twitter.com/w1tPl62KTc
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 8, 2015
Crozier’s case serves as a vivid reminder that there’s still much to learn about the virus that has infected more than 26,000 people since December 2013.
Our eyeballs are immune-privileged organs, meaning they are protected from the body’s immune system to prevent an inflammatory ...
