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Best Disease Best disease is a genetic disorder involving the eyes, also known as Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy type 2 (shortened as VMD2). It is a genetic disease in a heredity form of progressive macular dystrophy and macular degeneration, first founded in 1905. The loss of vision or sharpness of the vision is not the only symptom of Best disease, but also like many other macular diseases, Best disease also affects either one or both eyes in central …

…the eyesight over a longer period of time. The majority of citizens that know beforehand that they have Best disease can have blindness avoided of large degrees such as complete blindness but into a level to be partially sighted. Bibliography http://www.blindness.org/html/vision_disorder/wbest.html http://www.rnib.org.uk/info/bests.htm http://www.blindness.org/html/vision_disorder/bbest.html http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/disease/Best.html