31. It hopes to eliminate iodine deficiency diseases by 2000. 32. They include :-- Iodine deficiency , which causes retardation and deformities in babies, has been reduced. 33. ICCIDD has partnered with the World Health Organization and UNICEF on work related to iodine deficiency . 34. The man who combated SMERSH and other demons now campaigns against iodine deficiency in the world. 35. Iodine deficiency affects about two billion people and is the leading preventable cause of intellectual disabilities.36. Iodine patch bindis have often been used among women in north-west Maharashtra to battle iodine deficiency . 37. American scientists say that iodine deficiency , while stunting brain development, also appears to boost sperm counts. 38. Iodine deficiency has been blamed for 80 percent of China's 10 million cases of mental disability.39. They contain enzymes that interfere with the formation of thyroid hormone in people with iodine deficiency . 40. Iodine deficiency can cause intellectual disability . mushrooms.