Fetal alcohol syndrome: dashed hopes, damaged lives


Bulletin of the World Health Organization 89(6): 398-399

2011


ISSN/ISBN: 1564-0604
PMID: 21673854
DOI: 10.2471/blt.11.020611
Document Number: 222907
Since the term was coined about 40 years ago, fetal alcohol syndrome has slowly become recognized as a public health issue. Alicestine October reports from South Africa's Western Cape province, which has the highest reported rate in the world.

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