Ebola survivors face joints pain, blindness

269

Health experts have witnessed that Ebola survivors were suffering from joint pain, eye inflammation and blindness.

Those patients who defeated Ebola virus successfully have to face severe joint pan and eye inflammation that can lead to blindness, said World Health Organization and added that the world has never seen such a large number of survivors from an Ebola outbreak.

The Ebola virus is thought to be able to survive no more than 21 days in most body fluids, such as blood and vomit, which are the primary means of transmission.

But it is also known to be able to lurk in semen and in the soft tissues of the eye for up to several months after recovery.

Scientists believe the vision impairments reported by survivors of the current outbreak are probably linked to the virus persisting in the eyes.