“…Prolonged treatment may cause bone marrow depression, and may induce megaloblastosis [2, 131. In teratogenicity experiments, HU caused a reduction in the overall population and impaired haemopoiesis in the foetuses of rats treated late in pregnancy [8,14]. Phase-specific malformations were noted in rat foetuses examined shortly before term [6,9,10,12,[14][15][16].…”