• CJOtheReal@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    When you get a infection in your eye (inide the actual eyeball) your immune system will kill both eyes and its irreversible…

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 months ago

      Why doesn’t this happen anywhere else? Cut your finger? Both hands get infected. Ingrown toe tail? Both feet hurt.

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        8 months ago

        there are actually a few other cases of this in the body and it’s because your eyes aren’t actually a part of your bloodstream so the eyes are treated as foreign objects along withthe others I mentioned being thyroid follicles ovarian follicles and sperm inside testicular ducts the last 2 being they only have one set of chromosomes so are biologically different to you