60年代末,一年的6月,我国某医院值夜班的眼科医师接待一位因眼发红一天而来诊治的海外游客。次日早晨,这位医师也双眼发红。经过诊断确定为红眼病(眼科称为急性结膜炎)。这种眼病当时在国外流行,国内尚未见过,但不久也在国内一些大城市中流行。经过研究,从患者眼的分泌物中分离出腺病毒,而且不只是一型,也有的分离出微小RNA病毒(肠道病毒70型),因而确定红眼病的病原是病毒,而且不只一种病毒,可能是多种病毒,或一类病毒同时发生流行。由上例可见红眼病传播快、发病率高,而且潜伏期短。 In the late 1960s and in June of the year, night-time ophthalmologists in a hospital in our country received an overseas visitor who had been diagnosed and treated for one day’s redness. The next morning, the physician also had both eyes reddened. After diagnosis identified as pink eye disease (ophthalmology known as acute conjunctivitis). This eye disease was popular in foreign countries at that time, has not been seen in the country, but soon it is also popular in some major cities in China. After research, the adenovirus isolated from the patient’s eye secretions, and not just a type, and some isolated from the Picornavirus (Enterovirus 70), and thus determine the etiology of pink eye is a virus, and not only a virus, May be a variety of viruses, or a class of viruses at the same time epidemic. From the above example can be seen pink eye disease spread fast, high incidence, and the incubation period is short.