Epidemic acute conjunctivitis.

Enteroviral conjunctivitis and its neurological complications

“…At about tile same time epidemics of essentially the same condition were occurring in Indonesia (27) and spread from there through Singapore (70), Malaysia and Thailand (10) to India (49). Subsequent epidemics reached as far as Europe (23,52) and Japan (32,42) by 1971 but the Americas and Australasia escaped involvement.…”

Towards an in vitro model for acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis: cytokine-mediated vascular endothelial cell activation triggered by enterovirus type 70 infection

“…The first recognized outbreak of EV70-associated AHC occurred in 1969 in Ghana, West Africa (Chatterjee et al, 1970). In the following years, there was a pandemic of EV70 in Africa, Europe, and Asia (Jones, 1973;CDC, 1981;Hatch et al, 1981;Roy et al, 1972). Although there have been few EV70-associated AHC epidemics in the world since 1985, sporadic outbreaks have occurred (e.g.…”