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  • Your Eyeballs May Be Covered In Disease-Fighting Bacteria

    Your Eyeballs May Be Covered In Disease-Fighting Bacteria

    If the eyes are windows to the soul, they’re open windows, potentially letting in all kinds of unwelcome bugs. To ensure that doesn’t happen, our tears are loaded with microbe-killing compounds and immune cells. In fact, our eyes are so inhospitable that it was long thought they were the only part of our bodies which…