“…Herpes simplex eye lesions have been described to be present at birth (Hagler et aI., 1969;Pettay et aI., 1972;Hutchison et aI., 1975) or may develop in the neonatal period (Batignani, 1934;Smith et aI., 1941;Pillard et aI., 1950;Zuelzer and Stulberg, 1952;Florman and Mindlin, 1952;Monnet et aI., 1961;Neimann et aI., 1963;Langvad and Voigt, 1963;Mitchell and McCall, 1963;Cogan et aI., 1964;Yen et aI., 1965;Bahrani et aI., 1966;Berkovich and Ressel, 1966;Proto and Tedesco, 1966';May et aI., 1967;Partridge and Millis, 1968;Golden et aI., 1969;Hagler et aI., 1969;Bobo et aI., 1970;Nahmias et ai., 1970;Cibis and Burde, 1971;Nahmias et ai., 1976). About half of these infants were born premature and showed involvement of central nervous system, skin, cornea, conjunctiva, viscera, eyelids, oral cavity and optic neuritis, choreoretinitis, cataracts and microphthalmia in various combinations and severity.…”