• Question: what is the best thing/fact you have found out whilst studying ebola?

    Asked by anon-186813 to Verity on 14 Nov 2018.
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      Verity Hill answered on 14 Nov 2018: last edited 14 Nov 2018 1:55 pm


      Something that is scary but very interesting about Ebola is that once you have had it sometimes it lives in parts of you that your immune system can’t get to.
      One of these parts is your eye, and this happened to one doctor who caught Ebola while working on the West African outbreak. His eye actually changed colour from blue to green! After treatment, his eye went back to blue which is some ways is even stranger, because that sort of change is usually permanent.

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