Thalidomide’s true cost: 10,000 miscarriages and infant deaths in Britain alone
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 3:25
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Thalidomide’s true cost: 10,000 miscarriages and infant deaths in Britain alone
By David on 8 March 2016 GMT Corporate Crime Medical/Health
‘Thalidomide victims may surpass 10,000 people in the UK – far more than the 531 who have received compensation for the notorious drug, which causes severe birth defects and death in new-born babies.
Former director of the Thalidomide Trust Martin Johnson claims many families would not have known their babies had been affected by the drug.
Speaking to the Sunday Times, Johnson said it has taken half a century for the true scale of the thalidomide scandal to be revealed.’
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