It is not a dangerous situation . It is not contagiou s, and it does not cause any other physical problems, although unrelated eye troubles may arise. People with serious myopia have larger eyes than normal, but the tissue covering the inner surface of the eye like a wall-to-wall carpet covers the same area (in square millimeters) as the normal eye.
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