One in ten monkeypox sufferers lose their sight due to complications. About it reported in Izvestia with reference to the statistics of Egyptian scientists and the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor.
According to Natalya Pshenichnaya, director of clinical and analytical work at the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor, eye infection can lead to corneal inflammation.
This, according to her, “will lead to its clouding, ulceration and subsequent scarring, and as a result – irreversible loss of vision.”
In Egypt, where there was a prior outbreak of monkeypox, blindness in patients may be due to inflammation of the cornea, a consequence of zoonotic virus infection.
Experts from the Egyptian University of Tanta found that every tenth patient has a loss of vision. One in five patients experience photophobia, and one in three suffers from conjunctivitis.
Also, according to the newspaper, 17 percent of monkeys with smallpox have focal lesions of the conjunctiva, 7.5 percent have keratitis, and 4 percent have corneal ulcers.