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skunkbear:

Dr. Ian Crozier survived Ebola, only to have his normally blue left eye turn green because of inflammation. Though the rest of his body, including his tears, was Ebola-free, his eye was teeming with the virus.

It turns out Ebola can hide out in eyes, testicles, the uterus, the spine.

“It presents a huge challenge, because how do we get enough antivirals into these sites?” says Ilhem Messaoudi, a viral immunologist and professor of biomedical sciences at the University of California, Riverside, who is studying how the virus works in the human body. “How do we eradicate those reservoirs? And why do some people end up developing these reservoirs and other people don’t?”

Read the full story here.

Image credit: Emory Eye Center

Ahem.

To everyone who questioned my virology: HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAA.