Cornea-eating amoeba

Name: Cornea-eating amoeba
Uploaded: 2018-10-02T02:33:00+00:00
Duration: 1 min 52 s
Description: A cornea-eating amoeba has the potential to steal your eyesight and maybe your eyeball. The issue came to light after a rise in the number of cases in the United Kingdom of an incredibly rare illness called Acanthamoeba keratitis, caused by a single-cell organism called Acanthamoeba. The British Journal of Ophthalmology cited the tripling of cases since 2010.

A cornea-eating amoeba has the potential to steal your eyesight and maybe your eyeball. The issue came to light after a rise in the number of cases in the United Kingdom of an incredibly rare illness called Acanthamoeba keratitis, caused by a single-cell organism called Acanthamoeba. The British Journal of Ophthalmology cited the tripling of cases since 2010.

Posted October 1, 2018 10:47pm EDT