Fungal eye infection can lead to blindness

Poor agricultural workers are most affected by fungal keratitis, an infection of the cornea. — AFP

Between one and 1.4 million fungal eye infections occur in the developing world per year, leaving over 600,000 people blind in one eye, find researchers from Manchester, London and Nairobi in Kenya.

Lead researcher Lottie Brown from the University of Manchester recently published the first estimation of global fungal keratitis figures in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal.