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. 1978 Oct 27;240(18):1980-1.
doi: 10.1001/jama.240.18.1980.

Conjunctivitis and skin erythema. Outbreak caused by a damaged high-intensity lamp

W Halperin, R Altman, K Black, F J Marshall, M Goldfield

Conjunctivitis and skin erythema. Outbreak caused by a damaged high-intensity lamp

W Halperin et al. JAMA. .

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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