Acanthamoeba keratitis is a rare but blinding parasitic eye disease. Experts share how to avoid it and treat it.

Vivian Nosovitsky told Newsweek the rare eye infection came from bacteria getting into her contact lenses, causing the ...

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A British man was forced to have his eye removed after a contact lens infection spiraled out of control, and now he’s sharing his story so others won’t suffer the same consequences. Long-time ...

April 11, 2006 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have alerted healthcare professionals to increasing reports of Fusarium fungal eye ...

Acanthamoeba keratitis is an eye infection affecting the cornea. Contact lens users are at high risk of getting infected, though non-contact lens users are also prone to the disease. Acanthamoeba ...

Eye infections, often resulting from improper contact lens use, send almost 1 million Americans to the doctor each year, federal health officials said today when releasing results of the first study ...

Keratitis (inflammation of the cornea) can result in partial or total loss of vision. The sight-threatening process can be extremely rapid corneal destruction may only take 24-48 hours. It can result ...

The Centre for Health Protection reminds contact lens wearers to clean them properly following four cases of cornea inflammation in July and August. Four public hospital patients suffered from ...

Keratitis refers to the inflammation of one’s cornea, which is the outermost part of the eye that covers the iris and the pupil. Two of the most common causes of keratitis include injury and infection ...

A new outbreak of a rare but preventable eye infection that can cause blindness, has been identified in contact lens wearers in a new study. The research team found a threefold increase in ...