Oxford Epidemic of Bornholm Disease, 1951

Abstract

Sylvest (1934) gave a very fuU description of the recorded outbreaks of Bornholm disease up to 1931. Since that time there have been many valuable reports, but most of them have dealt only with the clinical features of the disease Practically all the large outbreaks reported have occurred in relatively closed communities, although Harder (1936) described an epidemic in the general population of Cincinnati, Ohio. So far as can be ascertained there has been no published report of any extensive outbreak occurring in the general com- munity in this country.