2 blinded after swimming with contact lenses

Thursday, August 1, 2019
Doctors are reminding those who wear contacts to remove their lenses before showering or swimming.

This after a recent incident in the United Kingdom where a man and a woman each became blind in one eye due to an infection called acanthamoeba keratitis.
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The parasite lives in water but doesn't normally cause problems, unless it gets trapped under contact lenses.

The woman had a partial cornea transplant but still lost vision in her eye.
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