An official report concluded Renu MositureLoc was the only eye care solution contributing to outbreaks of Fusarium infection earlier this year. They still had no clue why, though.

Furthermore, the report’s authors, “…noted that in 25 percent of the Fusarium cases…doctors had at first mistakenly prescribed an anti-inflammatory treatment that is appropriate for bacterial infections but actually makes fungal infections worse.”

Maybe the epidemiologists misdiagnosed the infection, a forest of orange fungal goo impairing their vision.

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