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The Blindness Epidemic
V. Everett Kinsey and Vanessa Zacharias published a compendium of possible causes in 1949. Research into retro-lental fibroplasia was hitting premature infants all over the world. By 1953, researchers in at least a dozen different places were sharing their findings. The data coming in from all these places began to point to the unlikeliest of culprits: oxygen.