PARIS, France: Two years ago, Paul's teacher noticed that the 10-year-old boy could no longer see anything on the board at the front of the class.
An ophthalmologist confirmed that Paul was one of the soaring number of children worldwide with myopia, also known as nearsightedness, an eye condition projected to affect half of the world's population by 2050.But the ophthalmologist in the western French city of Nantes had some good news: specially designed glasses had just become available that could slow down the progression of Paul's myopia.
'The myopia generation' Research has suggested that the percentage of people affected by myopia worldwide could surge from 27 percent in 2010 to 52 percent by 2050.Children with at least one nearsighted parent are more likely to develop the condition -- however no one in Paul's family is myopic.Environmental rather than genetic causes are believed to be behind the explosion of cases.
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