Author Topic: Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Patients with Confirmed 2019 Novel Coro  (Read 218 times)

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Transmission through the eye has been established fact for other respiratory viruses:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17050596

"Viral infection of the lungs through the eye."

"These results establish the eye as a major gateway of respiratory infection and a respiratory virus as a bona fide eye pathogen"

So its not surprising that goggles are recommended as PPE when dealing with viruses like SARS/MERS/2019nCoV