1 Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York
We have been having an epidemic of respiratory infections in this area for the past 2 months, considered to be viral in character. In the past 25 days I have seen 9 girls of the following ages who developed morbilliform rashes at the terminal stages of their respiratory illnesses: 7 months, 4 years (2), 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, 11 years, 12 years, and 18 years. At the time the rashes appeared the patients had no fever and were not acutely ill.