Extreme vitamin D deficiency causes deformities in children and weak bones in adults.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

You remember, thalidomide is the drug which was actually really most used as sleeping aid that when pregnant women took were shown to produce deformities, children who were born without limbs for example.

你应该知道这种药品,实际上它是用来辅助睡眠的,但是，如果孕妇吃了这种药,就可能造成胎儿畸形，可能生出来的婴儿是没有四肢的。

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Anymore, then they will feel threatened by the fact that as a society we decided to ban that drug because of the deformities were caused.

不然，面对我们禁止使用镇静安眠药的决定,他们也会有威胁感,尽管禁止的原因是这种药物会导致胎儿畸形。

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