Global & Disaster Medicine

Ebola’s survivors: Cataracts

NY Times

“….Cataracts usually afflict the old, not the young, but doctors have been shocked to find them in Ebola survivors as young as 5. And for reasons that no one understands, some of those children have the toughest, thickest cataracts that eye surgeons have encountered, along with scarring deep inside the eye….”

PHIL Image 17772

Under a magnification of 25,000X, this scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image depicts numerous filamentous Ebola virus particles budding from a chronically-infected VERO E6 cell.

 


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