ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 10月20日 22時19分

2 years ago, Ebola nearly took Aminata Conteh’s life. Now, complications from the disease are threatening the 8-year-old’s sight. In late July, she and her mother visited an eye hospital in Freetown, #SierraLeone, hoping for surgery to remove a dense cataract. Doctors have been shocked to find cataracts — which usually afflict older people — in Ebola survivors as young as 5. Eye disease, with the specter of blindness, has become a dreaded complication of Ebola. Researchers estimate that 20% of about 17,000 survivors there have had a type of severe inflammation inside the eye, uveitis, which can cause blindness. But even if it resolves, cataracts can quickly follow. On a Monday morning, Aminata and her mom joined about 20 other #Ebola survivors of all ages as doctors from @emoryuniversity — who’ve been studying eye problems in survivors — explained the tests and treatments they would receive. Even though Ebola may still lurk inside the eye in survivors with uveitis, patients can’t spread it through casual contact. But operating on them might pose a risk to surgeons. Over 2 days, 18 survivors were scheduled to have cataract surgery. Aminata, who @janehahn photographed in this series of pictures, was the youngest. Visit the link in our profile to read more and to see more photos.

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