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| Dorcas Wangira | |
| Africa health correspondent | |
| Malawi has confirmed an outbreak of viral conjunctivitis, or pink eye, in the Karonga district, with 109 cases reported since 1 February. | |
| The disease was first | |
| identified among long-distance travellers from neighbouring Tanzania, officials at the Songwe border post, and later within the community, Karonga’s director of health services, David | |
| Sibale, said. | |
| An outbreak of viral conjunctivitis was reported in Tanzania in mid-January. | |
| By the end of the month, it had spread to 17 regions in both the mainland and the islands of Zanzibar, with more than 5,000 cases recorded. | |
| Kenya, Comoros, Madagascar and Mayotte have also recorded cases. | |
| Rwanda’s ministry of health issued an alert on Sunday, urging the public to take precautionary measures. | |
| Viral | |
| conjunctivitis affects the eyes and can | |
| easily spread from one person to another. | |
| Infected people can have a pink or red colour in the white part of their eye, | |
| swelling of the conjunctiva (eye lining), increased production of tears, itching, pain, and difficulty seeing. | |
| With good hygiene and avoiding contact with infected people, it tends to heal on its own. | |
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