{"id":82915,"date":"2018-09-23T16:02:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T23:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/an-eye-infection-found-in-contact-lens-wearers-can-cause-blindness"},"modified":"2018-09-25T11:12:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T18:12:29","slug":"an-eye-infection-found-in-contact-lens-wearers-can-cause-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/an-eye-infection-found-in-contact-lens-wearers-can-cause-blindness","title":{"rendered":"An Eye Infection Found in Contact Lens Wearers Can Cause Blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-eye-infection-found-in-contact-lens-wearers-can-cause-blindness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doctors at England\u2019s Moorfields Eye Hospital identified an outbreak of Acanthamoeba keratitis, an eye disease that can cause blindness. This team thinks that the amoeba can travel through the water supply and infect contact wearers who aren\u2019t careful.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/49216-contact-lens-blindness-outbreak-england\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/49216-contact-lens-blindness-outbreak-england<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors at England\u2019s Moorfields Eye Hospital identified an outbreak of Acanthamoeba keratitis, an eye disease that can cause blindness. This team thinks that the amoeba can travel through the water supply and infect contact wearers who aren\u2019t careful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83010,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82915\/revisions\/83010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}