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Key Facts
 1.4 million children under age 15 are blind.
 Correction of refractive errors could give normal vision to
more than 12 million children (ages 5-15).
 The number of people blinded by infectious diseases has
been greatly reduced. Age related impairment is increasing.
 Blinding trachoma affects 40 million people today, compared
to 360 million in 1985.
http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/blindness/blindness_facts/en/index7.html