Prevent Blindness NC is on a mission to help fairgoers identify eye problems early

A five-minute stop in the Education Building during the fair could be the most important thing you do on your annual visit to the fair. For more than 20 years Prevent Blindness North Carolina has set up a booth inside the Education Building offering free vision screenings for adults. Their services may have helped thousands of fairgoers detect vision loss or, even more importantly, disease issues that may lead to vision loss. “At the fair we do two types of screening,” said Edwin Jeffords, president and chief executive officer of Prevent Blindness NC. “The first is an acuity screening, which…

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