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Newcastle conjunctivitis

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Link to WHO Definition

Newcastle conjunctivitis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/539699728

This is a contagious bird disease affecting many domestic and wild avian species; it is transmissible to humans. First found in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom in 1926, then by Burnet in 1943 in Australia in connection with laboratory infection, where the virus was isolated from an ocular discharge of a patient to show the specific antibody titre in the patient's blood.