Word: xerophthalmia
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...Malnutrition blindness, or xerophthalmia, is the leading cause of blindness in children. Though incurable in the final stages, it can be prevented by 12? worth of vitamin A concentrate four times a year, or a daily handful of green vegetables. In the famine winter of 1972 in Bangladesh, 100,000 infants lost their sight. Says Wilson: "Of all the causes of blindness, this is the most obscene...
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