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What Is Retrolental Fibroplasia?
Before the 1940s, many premature babies simply died. Doctors were seeing more cases of this blindness. Retrolental fibroplasia was a frightening mystery that was being studied especially closely in 1946. By the late 1940s, the syndrome had exploded into a full-blown epidemic.