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‘A flesh-eating bug almost blinded me — I caught it from an ordinary activity’

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Shereen-Fay Griffin, whilst a flesh-eating parasite was in her eye. See SWNS story SWSMparasite. A woman was left blind in one eye after contracting a flesh-eating parasite from mains water. Shereen-Fay Griffin, 38, lost sight in her right eye just under a year ago after contracting a parasitic eye infection. Shereen believes she contracted the infection - acanthamoeba keratitis - from her leisure center or from tap water at home. At first, Shereen's symptoms were innocuous - itchiness, soreness and fatigue.

By the time doctors realised she had a flesh-eating parasite, it was too late (Picture: Shereen-Fay Griffin/SWNS)

A woman has revealed how a flesh-eating parasite burrowed into her eye leaving her partially blind – and she thinks she may have got it from a swimming pool.

After going swimming in August 2022, Shereen-Fay Griffin, a learning support assistant at a secondary

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