"Americans don’t wear contact lenses properly and it leads to about 1 million eye infections a year"

check out this article from The Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/11/13/americans-dont-wear-contact-lenses-properly-and-it-leads-to-about-1-million-eye-infections-a-year/?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost