It's a scary fact, but you don't find any Metal Gears in Zanzibar island. What you get is pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacteria that almost took out a British Columbian girl's eyesight.

Trasey Plouffe's dream vacation turned out to be a nightmare, when she woke up with bacteria eating her eyes. The 18 year old experienced great pain with veins in her eyelids popping out. "I was hoping it would just fade away during the next night," cried the girl.

We won't be too graphical about it, but imagine bacterias making holes out of your cornea. The local first-aid station couldn't help because of language barriers; they couldn't understand each other.

Rubbing her eyes only caused more trouble, spreading the microscopic culprits making her suffer. Even after turning blind, she caught a bus to reach a clinic the next day. All she got from the doctor was: "You're losing your eyes. You better get out of here."

Not losing hope, she took a 10-seater plane to Tanzanian capital of Dar es Salaam immediately. The hospital could only do as much as give her painkillers and advise to get to a hospital in Canada.

Thanks to a kindhearted member of the Canadian High Commission in Tanzania, she was able to reach Vancouver General Hospital. This was the last stop after five days of her ordeal.

Cornea transplants were able to give her vision back, but it's still blurry after having 17 stitches in her right eye and 24 on the other. Plouffe can only go through this with a positive mind, saying "The cataracts will get bad and I will lose my eyesight, but it's temporary and it will get fixed."