Hallo Zürichsee,

Astra AB, Schweden

Zitat:
"Astra AB was a former international pharmaceutical company headquartered in Södertälje, Sweden. Astra was formed in 1913 and merged with the British Zeneca Group in 1999 to form AstraZeneca"

Nebenbei nicht zu verwechseln mit dem 'Telefonbauer' Aastra - der ehemaligen DeTeWe -- inzwischen Mitel...

Trotzdem ist die rein sprachliche 'Nähe' zum lateinischen Verb nacere schon ähnlich verblüffend, wie beim engl. Begriff contagion - übersetzt: Ansteckung, Seuche usw. - zum Begriff 'Contergan', rund um den sog. 'Thalidomide Skandal'

Ergänzung - und 'Synthese' - aus obigem Link:
"A drug which hadn't been developed by Astra, but that the company distributed in Sweden under its own name under the designation Neurosedyn, which was a prescription-free sedative. It was developed in Germany by Grünenthal under the name Contergan and was also sold under the name Thalidomide in other countries. In late 1961 this drug was connected to a number of birth defects in Germany and was withdrawn from the German market. Three weeks later Astra's Neurosedyn was withdrawn in Sweden, after having been on the market slightly less than three years. It turned out that around one hundred Swedish children had suffered deformation from their mothers taking the supposedly safe drug during their pregnancies, as the Swedish part of the wider Thalidomide scandal affecting around 10,000 worldwide. After complicated legal turns in the 1960s, a settlement was reached in 1969, whereby Astra set aside certain compensation funds for the victims. This turn of events led to a revision of safety thinking in drug development, and to date it is still considered as the worst tragedy and scandal in the history of the Swedish pharmaceutical industry."

Beste Grüße

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