Bornholm disease overview

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

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Overview

Bornholm disease or pleurodynia is a disease caused by the Coxsackie virus. It is named after the Danish island Bornholm where the first documented cases occurred.

Other names

It is also known as the devil's grip, devil's grippe, epidemic myalgia, epidemic pleurodynia or The Grasp of the Phantom.