On 28th July 2015, a newborn baby was blinded by flash of a camera. An article was published by the Daily Mail that a three-month old baby blinded from one eye when family friend didn’t turn off the flash of camera at the time of taking a close up photo of the baby. This article indicated that a three-month old Chinese baby got blinded permanently from the flash of a camera. The baby get blinded in one eye when one of the family friends forgot to close the flash of camera at the time of taking a close up picture.
Doctors also confirmed that a three-month old child has suffered with unrecoverable damage in one eye by the flash light of the camera, because this flash light sparkled very near to the baby. The parents of the affected baby noticed that something is wrong after taking the close up picture of the baby.
When we tried to find the authenticity of this news, we found that a number of well reputed websites have published stories that flash light is not harmful for human. We also discovered that the Daily Mail took this news from an unreliable source People’s Daily Online. The People’s Daily website got this news from Guangming Daily and the Guangming Daily got this news from DAHE.com website. The DAHE.com took this news from Henan TV. None of the above websites mentioned the specific date, place or any kind of detail or any king of evidence provided about this incident.