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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