Contact Lens Health Week — August 19–23, 2019

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Description:
  August 19-23, 2019, marks the sixth annual Contact Lens Health Week. In collaboration with partners from clinical, public health, industry, and regulatory sectors, CDC is promoting healthy contact lens wear and care practices to reduce the risk for eye infections among the approximately 45 million persons in the United States who wear contact lenses. Studies conducted following outbreaks of rare but serious eye infections in the United States have found that these infections occur most frequently in contact lens wearers who do not take proper care of their contact lenses, indicating a need to promote safer wear and care (1).
• Subjects:
  Anniversaries And Special Events Contact Lenses Cover Box Health Behavior Humans
• Source:
  MMWR Morbidity Mortal Weekly Rep. 68(32):693 Contact Lens Health Week
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  31416093
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6818703
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Volume:
  68
• Issue:
  32
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:80efe7850ca8ffb8e29a312317e957339c4f05a22b1b87bfc7e490e1a9467d8f17745fbb409cd4a9fe1f278d53ae26ae096a7755ca4c7e90ad8543f45cf5436b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/83404/cdc_83404_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 91.84 KB ]