Fungal eye infections caused by ReNu with MoistureLoc spread the globe as China gets ready to defend patients. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/28/content_4761334.htm

ReNu, a product by Bausch & Lomb, is responsible for rare eye infections known as fungal keratitis (Fusarium Keratitis). If untreated, these infections can cause blindess. Lawsuits for ReNu are being filed by a number of citizens of Asia who have suffered severe damage to their eyes as a result of using Bausch & Lomb’s ReNu.

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American law firms have announced that they have been retained by citizens of Asia who have suffered severe damage to their eyes as a result of using Bausch & Lomb’s ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens solution. In February 2006, Bausch & Lomb ceased sales of all ReNu solutions in Singapore and Hong Kong after many users of ReNu with MoistureLoc were diagnosed with fusarium keratitis. http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news.html?d=102549

Lucky for ReNu users, a team of Singapore healthcare professionals were the first to alert the world on a link between a ReNu contact lens solution and a global spike in fungal corneal infections, according to the Singapore News.
In singapore, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said: “Certainly when you decide to do something like this, you’re taking on a very big multi-national corporation and as I said, they’re armed with teams of (scientists and) lawyers. And if the advisory was pre-mature or without basis, or could not be proven, I’m quite sure there’ll be a legal suit on our table.
“But more than legal suits, it’s also our own reputation. In this instance, the reputation of SNEC and of course Ministry of Health and Singapore. So I’m quite glad. More importantly it ended up well.”
All ReNu users owe thanks to these courageous doctors for stepping forward and alerting the world of this public health risk.

Hao Junbo, the group’s lawyer, told China Daily yesterday that less than 10 people had so far provided sufficient evidence to back up the claims. “I’ve sent full medical documents of three infections to my partner in the United States,” he said yesterday. China Daily July 11, 2006
This represents a whole new front which Baushc & Lomb will have to defend itself. It is fitting that this litigation be brought, since it is the Asian consumers who first reported the problems of eye infections to Bausch & Lomb.