Düsseldorf neurologist Dr. Ralph Voss again publicly connected Thalidomide to nerve damage at another neurologist congress in Düsseldorf. He also said he didn’t think the damage was reversible.

Source: Chronology of events provided by Beate Kirk, in: Der Conterganfall: eine unvermeidbare Arzneimittelkatastrophe? Dissertation. Greifswald 1998.