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Researching Causes of Blindness and Deafness

Carol Zortman, Language Arts/English

CAUSES of BLINDNESS

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Blindness and Visual Disability
Part II of VII: Major Causes Worldwide
http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact143.html

Blindness and Visual Disability
Part III of VII: Other Leading Causes Worldwide
http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact144.html>

What are the Causes of Blindness?
http://www.mcwdn.org/Blind/BlindnessCauses.html

Visual Impairment and its Causes
http://www.cincyblind.org/visualimpairment.htm

Causes of Blindness
http://www.blindness.org/visiondisorders/causes.asp

Causes of Blindness
http://www.paisleyplace.com/gdf-grads/blindness.htm

Major Causes Of Blindness
http://www.blind.net/bg200000.htm

Blindness
http://www.eyesearch.com/blindness.htm

River Blindness
http://www.sightsavers.org.uk/sitefiles/savingsight/treatments/river.htm

Causes of color blindness
http://ma.essortment.com/colorblindness_rkes.htm

Understanding blindness and eye conditions
http://www.abwa.asn.au/body_understandingblindness.html

Toxin-Induced Vision Loss
http://www.emedmag.com/html/pre/tox/0101.asp

Organism Can Cause Blindness In Extended-Wear Contact Lens Users If Left Untreated
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000307090602.htm

Common Eye Conditions and Causes of Blindness in the United States
http://www.nfb.org/books/books1/ifblnd10.htm

Researchers find gene that causes Stargardt blindness
http://www3.cnn.com/HEALTH/9703/03/blindness.gene/

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CAUSES of DEAFNESS

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Deafness - a range of causes
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Deafness_-_a_range_of_causes?OpenDocument

Coclear Implants
http://dubinserver.colorado.edu/prj/rbe/Page4.htm

Age Related Hearing Loss
http://www.hear-it.org/page.dsp?page=311

Noise and Hearing Loss
http://www.hear-it.org/page.dsp?page=312

Cigarette Smoking and Hearing Loss
http://www.hear-it.org/page.dsp?page=1605

Osteogenesis Imperfecta (Brittle Bone Disease)
http://www.1uphealth.com/health/osteogenesis_imperfecta_info.html

Otosclerosis
http://www.1uphealth.com/health/otosclerosis_info.html

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York County School of Technology

Updated last - 6 November 2003