HERPANGINA

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Abstract
During the summer of 1950 similar mild illnesses occurred in rapid succession among six children in Parkwood, a suburban Maryland community within the metropolitan area of Washington, D. C. The illnesses were marked by an uncomplicated brief course and a sore throat characterized by vesicular and aphthous lesions in the faucial areas. They closely resembled a clinical entity of unknown cause described by Zahorsky in 1920,1for which he suggested the term "herpangina" in a later review.2Two subsequent reports have described outbreaks of similar illnesses.3The authors of the last-named reports suggested the virus of herpes catarrhalis as the probable causal agent, although attempts to isolate the virus were unsuccessful. The purposes of this communication are (1) to call attention to herpangina as a specific disease, which appears to be of common occurrence, and (2) to report the isolation in suckling mice of viruses from each

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