How to Use conjunctivitis in a Sentence
conjunctivitis
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The rash symptoms typically look like small bumps around the mouth or conjunctivitis in the eyes.
—Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 July 2024
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People with bird flu may get pink eye (conjunctivitis), a cough, a sore throat, a runny or stuffy nose, muscle or body aches, headaches, fatigue and fever.
—Hatty Willmoth, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
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In people, the main route of infection seems to be through the eyes; conjunctivitis, or red, inflamed eyes, seems to be the telltale symptom of infection.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2025
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For example, someone with pink eye, also known as conjunctivitis, may not associate it with bird flu, even with recent exposure to cattle.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 17 Jan. 2025
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So far, nearly all of the cases of bird flu in North America have been mild, with symptoms including conjunctivitis, or pink eye, and runny nose, chills, cough and sore throat.
—Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2025
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Many have also had conjunctivitis or pink eye as their only symptom, which experts suspect is from contaminated milk from cows infected by bird flu being splashed onto workers.
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2025
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Roughly a day after the fever sets in come the three C’s of measles: cough, conjunctivitis (pink eye) and coryza (a runny nose).
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
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Of those that do, fever, rash, joint pain and conjunctivitis (red eyes) are the most common symptoms of Zika virus.
—Rob Picheta, CNN, 7 Nov. 2019
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If somebody showed up with a rash and conjunctivitis and a low grade fever, somebody would begin to probe.
—National Geographic, 1 Aug. 2016
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Fever, rash, joint pain and conjunctivitis (red eyes) are the most common symptoms.
—Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 27 May 2021
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The worker – the second person in the U.S. to get bird flu since 2022 – had symptoms of conjunctivitis or eye redness.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
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Common symptoms of measles include a high fever, cough, conjunctivitis (pink eye), runny nose, white spots in the mouth and a rash that spreads from head to toe.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 26 July 2024
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Pink eye, or conjunctivitis, can also spread since the fabric comes into contact with the face and eyes.
—Ada Wood, CNN, 2 Oct. 2021
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The presence of the virus there could lead to conjunctivitis, the institute noted in a November blog post.
—Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 11 Apr. 2023
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One more thing to look out for: conjunctivitis and keratitis.
—Sara Spruch-Feiner, Teen Vogue, 14 Feb. 2018
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Measles symptoms commonly include a high fever, cough, conjunctivitis (pink eye), runny nose, white spots in the mouth and a rash that spreads from head to toe.
—Daniella Silva, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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In the Texas case in late March, the only symptom reported was conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye.
—Helen Branswell and Megan Molteni, STAT, 22 May 2024
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Some of the cases involved conjunctivitis, as was seen in other human cases linked to the H5N1 outbreak in dairy cows.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024
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The common symptoms: prolonged fever, a rash, conjunctivitis, swelling of the palms or soles of the feet, sometimes peeling of the skin in those areas and lymph node enlargement.
—Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 27 May 2020
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Swimming through green muck could create an itchy rash or cause conjunctivitis (a.k.a. pink eye).
—Julia Ries, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2024
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In all three cases, symptoms were mild and involved red, bloodshot eyes, a sign of conjunctivitis.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 8 Oct. 2024
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The girl reported being struck by another child and has had conjunctivitis, a cough and fever.
—Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 1 July 2018
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Just last week, Bieber had taken god knows how many photos of the conjunctivitis plaguing his left eye and posted five of them to Instagram.
—Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 30 May 2017
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Their common symptoms: prolonged fever, a rash, conjunctivitis, swelling of the palms or soles of the feet, sometimes peeling of the skin in those areas and lymph node enlargement.
—Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2020
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Two of the dairy farmworkers had eye infections, known as conjunctivitis or pink eye.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2024
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In 2024, a dairy worker was infected in Texas and complained only of conjunctivitis, or pink eye.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
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The symptoms were mild in two workers: an eye infection known as conjunctivitis.
—Maggie Fox, Scientific American, 5 June 2024
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The case is relatively mild; the CDC said the patient has eye redness (conjunctivitis) but has no other symptoms.
—Julia Landwehr, Health, 4 Apr. 2024
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That’s likely what happened to a dairy worker in Michigan who developed mild conjunctivitis and was confirmed to have bird flu in May.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 18 July 2024
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The mix of the glitter texture and definition keeps the eye look from resembling conjunctivitis.
—Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 14 Mar. 2018
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