The Weather and Everyone's Health

Monday, June 21, 2004

This is just sad:

Singapore Doctors Find SARS in Teardrops

The finding — published in the current issue of the British Journal of Ophthalmology — may also highlight one of the ways that severe acute respiratory syndrome spreads, they said.
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But the discovery of the virus in tears also poses a risk to health care workers, the study found.
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Detecting viruses in teardrops is not new.
Chicken pox and two strains of hepatitis were among the diseases that have been found in tear ducts, the doctors said

Of all the intimate things two people could do together, you'd figure that at least crying and hugging would be safe. But no.

Is nothing sacred, then? I mean, I know there's a certain level of risk involved in intimacy anyway, especially crying. I just didn't think hepatitis was a part of that risk.

- posted by k @ 2:16 PM