More than a fourth of the contact lens users who suffered serious eye infections linked to Advanced Medical Optics’ recalled Complete MoisturePlus lens cleaner have required corneal transplants, according to an update on the outbreak released yesterday by federal health care authorities.
“This is just as serious as the fusarium outbreak,” said Lola Russell, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, referring to an outbreak of fungal eye infections last year that was linked to Bausch & Lomb’s ReNu with MoistureLoc lens cleaners.
The recall by Advanced Medical stemmed from MoisturePlus’s apparent inability, for reasons that are not yet clear, to adequately protect some soft lens users from a different infectious microbe called acanthamoeba.
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