I feel asleep with contact lenses in and a flesh-eating bug ate my EYE

A young man in has gone partially blind after he fell asleep wearing his contact lenses and a flesh-eating bacteria tore through his eye.

Michael Krumholz, 21, a sports management student from Lake Worth near Miami, took a 40-minute nap while wearing his daily contact lenses in December.

When he woke up, his left eye was blood red and his vision distorted - but he took his contact lenses and shrugged it off. But over the coming days he slowly started to lose sight out of the eye and experienced excruciating pain.

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