Infographic: A Snapshot of the Thalidomide Tragedy

Thalidomide caused thousands of spontaneous abortions and deaths of newborns in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and left more than 10,000 children severely disabled. Why did it happen?

The Grünenthal HQ in Stolberg Germany. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

 

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Emil Jeyaratnam is Multimedia Editor and Sasha Petrova is Editor, The Conversation.

This article was originally published on The Conversation.

Featured image: the Grünenthal HQ in Stolberg Germany. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

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