{"id":1791,"date":"2015-06-10T13:08:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T03:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2015-06-10T13:08:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T03:38:41","slug":"sa-researcher-helps-discover-ebola-virus-in-eye-fluid-of-recovered-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/2015\/06\/10\/sa-researcher-helps-discover-ebola-virus-in-eye-fluid-of-recovered-survivor\/","title":{"rendered":"SA researcher helps discover ebola virus in eye fluid of recovered survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: 13px\/16.89px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif;margin: 0px 0px 10px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;background-color: #ffffff\">A leading Flinders University ophthalmology researcher has co-authored a case study which found that live Ebola virus was present in a patient\u2019s eye fluid, 10 weeks after the virus was no longer detectable in the patient\u2019s blood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16.89px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, serif;margin: 0px 0px 10px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;background-color: #ffffff\">Professor Justine Smith, an eminent international ophthalmologist and scientist, said the discovery of Ebola virus in the patient\u2019s aqueous humour \u2013 the clear fluid in the front of the eye between the lens and the cornea \u2013 could have major implications for Ebola survivors and the health care workers who treat them. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-news\/2015\/06\/09\/sa-researcher-discovers-ebola-virus-in-eye-fluid-of-recovered-survivers\/#sthash.EQctzdWE.dpuf\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading Flinders University ophthalmology researcher has co-authored a case study which found that live Ebola virus was present in a patient\u2019s eye fluid, 10 weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}