Decades years after Thalidomide was launched, with devastating results, it was being hailed once again as a wonder drug.
Thalidomide is prescribed in Brazil, where there are a large number of leprosy patients, but children are still being born today in South America with limb defects because of its terrible effects in pregnancy.
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