It can lead to late abortions and birth deformities in newborn sheep, goats and cattle.
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It took five years before an Australian obstetrician, William McBride, traced deformities in children to thalidomide.
It says that there are 10 cases it knows in which second generation deformities have emerged.
This gives the impression that his deformities were much less extreme than Shakespeare would have us believe.
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In humans, symptoms typically include skeletal deformities, mental retardation and abnormal enlargement of the spleen and liver.
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The deliberate mating of close relatives, in particular, had left animals suffering from epilepsy, breathing problems and deformities, it claimed.
However, when pregnant females are infected, the virus can damage the foetus, leading to a range of deformities at birth.
In MPS I, a buildup of certain compounds in connective tissue leads to frequent infections, joint deformities and impaired heart function.
They also tend to have severe deformities, and their placentas are distorted.
The male puppy had severe leg deformities, which it could have been born with but did not appear to have received any veterinary attention.
He was born with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, a terminal genetic condition in which persistent skin problems lead to crippling deformities and, eventually, skin cancer.
Many of us have certain mental images that spring to mind when thinking of the effects of radioactive contamination: mutated animals, children with deformities and birth defects, for example.
Consequently, many develop rickets, pneumonia or limb deformities.
With multiple births increasing the risk of premature delivery, the possibility of a caesarean and the chance deformities and disabilities, UK clinics were last year directed not to return more than two embryos to a patient's womb.
But it does not tell us anything to justify changing the current historical view of Richard: that the Tudor historians and propagandists, culminating with Shakespeare, may have exaggerated his physical deformities and the horrors of Richard's character, but he remains a criminal king whose actions wrought havoc on his realm.
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