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20 世纪中叶(1956年),一家德国制药公司上市了一种新药,称为沙利度胺(商品名叫做反应停),可缓解妇女妊娠初期常见的呕吐、恶心、乏力和食欲不佳等反应,上市后十分畅销。但止于 1962年,仅在德国就出生了 8816例怪胎,在日本也有1002例产妇生产了畸胎——海豹肩胎儿(一种在肩部长出类似海豹肢体的怪胎),到了1963年全球共计出现了 11136例。由此,引起全世界医药界的哗然,公司立即宣布停止生产和使用,9个月后海豹肩胎儿才免于出现,但造成的后果已无法挽回,约半数儿童已经死亡,存
In the mid-20th century (1956), a German pharmaceutical company launched a new drug, called Thalidomide (a trade name called Response Stop), that eases the common vomiting, nausea, fatigue, and poor appetite of women during their first trimester gestation After the listing is very popular. But in 1962, 8816 cases of geeks were born in Germany alone, and 1002 cases of maternal births in Japan also produced terato-epidermal fetuses (a geek that grew like a seal on the shoulders). By 1963 A total of 11,136 cases worldwide. As a result, the pharmaceutical industry in the world was upraged and the company immediately declared its cessation of production and use. Only after 9 months failed to show the seals, but the consequences were irreparable. About half of the children died