Chinese Doctors Detect HIV Virus in Human Eyes

Chinese doctors detect HIV virus in human eyes

BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhua) — Doctors in the Peking Union Medical College Hospital have found HIV virus in an AIDS patient’s eyes.

This is the first time for Chinese doctors to detect the virus of the fatal disease in human eyes, according to Wednesday’s Beijing Morning Post.

The finding tells us even though the blood plasma HIV test is negative, for an AIDS patient, it does not mean he or she was cured because the virus might be in some places else,” said Li Taisheng, an expert with the hospital’s anti-infection department.

Li said they found the virus in the aqueous humor sample of a female AIDS patient, who has just had a cataract operation in the hospital.

The patient has been receiving anti-AIDS treatment in the hospital for a year and recently she was found losing her eyesight because of AIDS. “Clearly, the ordinary anti-AIDS medicines do not work for the HIV virus in the human eyes, ” said Li, adding even though, the virus does not exist in tears and people would not be infected with AIDS through tears.