Assertion: thalidomide's use | /r/HasSubevent | early 1960s
Facets:
value: with over 10,000 children
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the use of thalidomide in pregnant women in 46 countries resulted in the "biggest man‐made medical disaster ever," with over 10,000 children born with a range of severe deformities, such as phocomelia, and thousands of miscarriages.