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Contact Lens Infections are On the Rise

contact lens infections on the rise 8:27 AM
A friend recently contacted me with this sad story: an elite young gymnast, Deanne Soza, is at risk of permanent and severe vision loss due to an aggressive contact-lens associated infection.  Reading the posts from her family it appears she had contracted a possible Acanthamoeba infection in both eyes from wearing contact lenses in a hot tub.  Acanthamoeba is a protozoan parasite that is commonly...