An Australian expert suggested that the cause of the outbreak of the “pink eye” epidemic, which has infected about 400,000 people since the beginning of the year, is “Covid-19”.
Catherine Bennett, professor of epidemiology and health at Deakin University in Australia, explained in a statement to Newsweek magazine: “Pink eye is a symptom of the original variants (of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes) Covid-19, but it has become less common with variants,” reports Al-Rai daily.
She added, “Children were relatively spared from infection in the early waves, but with the presence of later subvariants that were more capable of causing infection in children, more cases of pink eye appeared.
“This year in April and May, reports of conjunctivitis were on the rise when the XBB 1.18 variant, and other related subvariants of Omicron, swept through countries like the United States.”
She added, “With the emergence of new, highly contagious Omicron variants in a country, the total number of infections rises as the immunity built up in the previous wave begins to wane, and the new variants gain the advantage that they cannot be recognized by the human body’s immune system,” according to what she published.
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