doi: 10.1001/jama.240.18.1980.
Conjunctivitis and skin erythema. Outbreak caused by a damaged high-intensity lamp
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- DOI: 10.1001/jama.240.18.1980
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Conjunctivitis and skin erythema. Outbreak caused by a damaged high-intensity lamp
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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.
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