[tptacek]

The bleeding here is subconjunctival hemorrhage, which by itself is not all that rare or serious. You can get it from sneezing too hard. It's happened to me a bunch of times.

I take your point, that the suggestion in that case study is that the virus caused it directly (RTPCR from the conjunctiva tested positive for the virus). He did have a full-blown case of conjunctivitis, though.