Aseptic Meningitis Epidemic Involving ECHO 4 and Coxsackie B5 Viruses

THE FIRST ATTEMPT to characterize aseptic meningitis as a distinct entity was made by 'Wallgren (1) in 1925. Although his criteria are still useful today, improved laboratory diagnostic techniques now make it possible to demonstrate that what he originally assumed to be a single disease may occur in the course of infection due to a number of different etiological agents. The enteroviruses, other than the poliovirus, which have been associated...