Apollo disease is out again, people should be careful.

It is Acute Hemorrhagic Conjunctivitis (Apollo) season again, patients have started trickling in. Stay away from anyone with a red eye. Make sure you wash your hands often; it can be transmitted via formites like door handles, phones and any object that a sufferer has touched. Once you touch such objects and touch your eyes the risks of contracting it are very high. A viral infection caused usually by enterovirus 70 (feco-oral transmission) and coxsachie viruses it is often self-limiting but superimposed bacterial infection is often. Schools and offices should send the infected home. -Do not instill breastmilk, onion fluid, sugar solution, battery water or traditional eye medication. See an ophthalmologist.