Eight patients, whilst on exercise in Albania, presented with a blistering, erythematous and itchy rash, consistent with caustic burns, after living in dense vegetation for a few days. All patients were found to have been living and operating under fig trees and had come into contact with the sap of Ficus carica, which on exposure to ultraviolet A (UVA) radiation, can cause a process of phytophotodermatitis leading to a blistering rash.
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