Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...height of the Three Mile Island crisis, dozens of pregnant women and children were evacuated to Hershey, Pa., twelve miles away from the crippled reactor. The move was a precautionary one to protect them against any radioactive fallout. For a while state officials even considered evacuating Hershey...
...scandal started in 1958 when Distillers Co., a huge British conglomerate known best for selling Scotch and gin, heavily advertised and sold a dangerous tranquilizer, Thalidomide, without adequately testing its effect on pregnant women. Before Distillers finally pulled the drug off the market, in 1961, some 450 tragically deformed babies were born in England, with flippers instead of arms and legs, or no limbs...
...bending over backwards to make sure rubella is not transmitted to pregnant women, but right now the problem is minimal," Fields said...
...hospital will take all the appropriate measures, however, to make sure rubella is not transmitted to pregnant women, Tager said...
...Bernard Fields, chief of infectious diseases at Brigham, said yesterday the hospital has responded to the problem by urging pregnant women not to come into the hospital, discharging--to the extent possible--pregnant patients and running an immunization program for members of the staff...