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Outbreak Caused by a Damaged High-Intensity Lamp

William Halperin, MD, MPH; Ronald Altman, MD, MPH; Kenneth Black; Frank J. Marshall; Martin Goldfield, MD

JAMA. 1978;240(18):1980-1981.

Abstract
Eighty-one members of girls' basketball teams were exposed to ultraviolet light while sitting in the bleachers of a school gymnasium. A mercury high-intensity discharge lamp lighting the bleacher area had a hole in its outer envelope that allowed the emission of ultraviolet light. Sixty-nine (85%) of the 81 girls were affected; 49 (71%) had symptoms of conjunctivitis and 63 (91%) had symptoms of erythema.

(JAMA 240:1980-1981, 1978)

Author Affiliations
From the Division of Laboratories and Epidemiology, New Jersey Department of Health, Trenton.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to New Jersey Department of Health, PO Box 1540, Trenton, NJ 08625 (Dr Altman).

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