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By the time scientists acknowledged that there was a problem, it was 1957. There had been whispers about it decades and decades before, but nothing that the general populace took seriously. How could something that devastating happen in an advanced society? So, for many it stayed brushed under the rug, but some scientists kept working on it in secret.
When they started collecting data on births, the issue they found, started well before the turn of the 20th Century. By 1972, it simply became the way life was now. There may have been one or two, here and there, but they were kept secreted away by family. Eventually, there just weren’t any more. The older generations, especially those from World War II told stories about them, but the younger generations treated it like stories of Big Foot or the Loch Ness Monster. Fun to hear, but unbelievable at the same time. Tony was one of those that had trouble believing, but all that came to an end the day the file was delivered.