Conjunctivitis -- Fiji
Health authorities in Fiji are urging people to observe strict personal hygiene as the country goes through a massive outbreak of conjunctivitis or pink eye.
In the past 2 weeks [last 2 weeks of March 2016] alone the number of cases of the virus in one district of Suva [the capital of Fiji; located in Central Division] jumped from 700 to 5000 cases...
Dr Kama said health authorities were not associating the outbreak with Cyclone Winston but were urging people with the virus to stay away
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/21XHK7y
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