From Maggie Cobbett, Ripon, North Yorkshire, UK
When it comes to myopia, there is a mystery that has long plagued me. After illness kept me at home for a few days, I returned to school to find I could no longer make out writing on the blackboard. A lifetime of spectacles and contact lenses to correct “short-sightedness” ensued. My mother always insisted it was scarlet fever that damaged my eyes, but others have pooh-poohed the idea, saying it was more likely to have been measles. I would like to know one way or the other.
