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  2. Conjunctivitis - Wikipedia

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    Conjunctivitis is the most common eye disease. [45] Rates of disease is related to the underlying cause which varies by the age as well as the time of year. Acute conjunctivitis is most frequently found in infants, school-age children and the elderly. [18] The most common cause of infectious conjunctivitis is viral conjunctivitis. [26]

  3. Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis - Wikipedia

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    Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) (also spelled acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis) is a derivative of the highly contagious conjunctivitis virus, [1] otherwise known as pink eye. Symptoms include excessively red, swollen eyes as well as subconjunctival hemorrhaging. Currently, there is no known treatment and patients are required to merely ...

  4. Neonatal conjunctivitis - Wikipedia

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    Neonatal conjunctivitis is a form of conjunctivitis (inflammation of the outer eye) which affects newborn babies following birth. It is typically due to neonatal bacterial infection , although it can also be non-infectious (e.g. chemical exposure). [ 1 ]

  5. Adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis - Wikipedia

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    Adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis, also known as epidemic keratoconjunctivitis, is a contagious eye infection, a type of adenovirus disease caused by adenoviruses. [1] It typically presents as a conjunctivitis with a sudden onset of a painful red eye, watery discharge and feeling that something is in the eye. [3]

  6. What Doctors Want You to Know About the First Case of Severe ...

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    These cases have mostly just included conjunctivitis, a.k.a. pink eye, points out Thomas Russo, M.D., a professor and chief of infectious disease at the University at Buffalo in New York. “There ...

  7. Infectious period - Wikipedia

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    In epidemiology, particularly in the discussion of infectious disease dynamics (mathematical modeling of disease spread), the infectious period is the time interval during which a host (individual or patient) is infectious, i.e. capable of directly or indirectly transmitting pathogenic infectious agents or pathogens to another susceptible host ...

  8. Adenovirus infection - Wikipedia

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    Adenovirus infection can also cause adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis. [5] Typically one eye is affected after an incubation period of up to a week. [5] The eye becomes itchy, painful, burning and reddish and lymphadenopathy may be felt by the ear nearest the affected eye. [5] The symptoms may last around 10 days to three weeks. [5]

  9. Doctors Explain How To Spot Symptoms Of Bird Flu After First ...

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    The first patient in the U.S. was hospitalized with "severe" bird flu. Here's what you should know about symptoms, according to an infectious disease expert.