| acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis: a mixed virus outbreak among vietnamese refugees on guam. | in may 1975 the authors investigated an outbreak of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis that affected an estimated 29,000 refugees from south vietnam who stayed on guam while en route to the united states. illness usually lasted6-10 days and was characterized by conjunctival injection (100%), lid edema (84%), eye irritation (81%) and subconjunctival hemorrhages (45%). conjunctival swabs and paired serum specimens on a limited number of patients implicated enterovirus 70 as a major etiologic agent ... | 1977 | 188334 |