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While Dry Macular Degeneration usually affects those over the age of 50 or 60, there are several reported cases of infants and children contracting this disorder called Juvenile Dry Macular Degeneration or JMD.  Dry Macular Degeneration is the slow decline of central vision.  While it does not cause complete blindness, it drastically alters ones lifestyle with total vision blurriness resulting in the inability to read or make out faces.