Study predicts 40 percent increase in blindness in Nigeria by 2020

Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - 10:49 in Health & Medicine

By 2020, 1.4 million Nigerians over age 40 will lose their sight, and the vast majority of the causes are either preventable or treatable, according to the Nigeria National Blindness and Visual Impairment Study Group...

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