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How long after you've contacted pink eye do symptoms show?
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Depends: Most pink eye is caused by a viral infection on the covering the eyeball-called the conjunctiva. Once infected its called conjunctivitis; this can develop over a few days or 1-2 weeks. You infect your eye when you touch a surface (or person) with the virus and rub your eye-transfering the virus. Some are from sexually transmitted bacteria. They take a week to show up. Got your eye md.
Answered 5/12/2016
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