Abstract
VARIOUS OCULAR changes associated with scrub typhus (miteborne typhus tsutsugamushi fever) were described by me in reports submitted to the Office of the Surgeon General of the United States army in 1944 and 1945. Abstracts of these reports were released in theBulletin of the United States Army Medical Departmentin April 19451and April 1946.2The external ocular changes consisted of conjunctival injection, occurring during the onset of the disease, and occasionally, subconjunctival hemorrhages, appearing during the first ten days. The intraocular changes, previously undescribed, were more noteworthy. The commonest, and most striking, of these was edema of the disk and retina, occurring during the second and third weeks of the disease and persisting well into convalescence. Retinal hemorrhages, usually superficial in type, and white, soft exudates occurred in a smaller number of patients. When these did occur, they were usually associated with edema of the disk