Outbreak has left contact wearers groping for glasses

William Spadafora had tried reading glasses, distance glasses and bifocals. He had lost glasses, stepped on glasses and dropped glasses off the side of a boat.

"I was fed up with glasses and I wanted to try something different, so that's why I tried contacts," said Mr. Spadafora, 58. "They worked for me for five or six years until I came down with the fungus."

Say hello again to glasses.

Mr. Spadafora, of Malden, Mass., is among the dozens of contact lens wearers in the United States left groping for glasses thanks to blurred vision and pain from Fusarium keratitis, a nasty fungal infection. Health authorities say...