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Venous thrombosis of the retina is a condition rarely seen in young soldiers after vaccination. This case is the first to occur in my experience and presents interesting clinical features. The earliest examination of the fundi was made one week after onset of symptoms.
REPORT OF A CASE
A 21 year old white soldier was given subcutaneous injections of 1 cc. of typhus vaccine and 0.5 cc. of triple typhoid vaccine (stimulating doses) on March 3, 1945. Intradermal vaccination for smallpox was also done on the same date. One year previously he had received simultaneous inoculations for cholera and typhus and, later, simultaneous inoculations for yellow fever and typhoid, without systemic reactions. He had never before been given typhus and typhoid vaccines on the same day. He had received his last previous injection of a stimulating dose of cholera vaccine on Jan. 5, 1945. His first reaction to vaccine occurred