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By a terrible coincidence, just the year after the formation of the Teratology Society, a shattering happening put congenital malformations and teratology on the map. The event that shook scientific circles, government officials, the pharmaceutical industry, and the public worldwide, was the revelation that a seemingly harmless therapeutic substance had caused thousands of children in many countries of the world to be born with severe limb deformities.
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Kalter, H. (2010). Thalidomide. In: Teratology in the Twentieth Century Plus Ten. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8820-8_6
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