Cataracts are a major problem among children who survived the Ebola epidemic in West Africa between 2013 as well as also 2016.

The eye disease typically affects old people, so doctors have been surprised to find the item in Ebola survivors as young as 5. Some children develop the most serious cataract cases seen by eye surgeons, The brand new York Times reported.

Of the 17,000 Ebola survivors in West Africa, about 20 percent had a type of severe inflammation inside the eye in which can cause blindness. Among those whose sight returns, cataracts can develop, typically in just one eye.

Initially, surgeons were reluctant to remove cataracts through Ebola survivors because they feared in which the virus might still be lurking inside patients’ eyes, The Times reported.

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