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Contact lens users warned over rare infection that causes blindness

21 September 2018

Professor John Dart (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) has found that contact lens wearers are at a higher risk of developing Acanthamoeba keratitis – a rare infection which can cause blindness.

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