Conjunctivitis and skin erythema. Outbreak caused by a damaged high-intensity lamp
W. Halperin, R. Altman, K. Black, F. J. Marshall and M. Goldfield
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.
