Red-Green Colorblindness

•Red-green colorblindness is the inability to see the colors red or green.
•99% of all colorblind people suffer from red-green colorblindness
• Colorblindness affects 8% of men and 0.5% women
•There is no real treatment for Colorblindness,
but special tinted glasses help patients.
• This disease does not effect the patients life or life expectancy in any way.

Disadvantages of Colorblindness include the following:
Simple things like
*reading stop lights
*matching clothes

Other disadvantages include many jobs that color blind people may not be able to pursue:
*cooks
*Electricians
*airplane pilots

Advantages of this disease include:
*seeing through camouflage
*being able to pick out insects and animals that disguise themselves in grass, plants and other surfaces

Symptoms:
*trouble seeing colors or brightness
*inability to decipher between similar shades