Australian man diagnosed with scurvy, a disease doctors 'thought we had eradicated'
www.abc.net.au
Doctors say scurvy, best associated with sailors' lack of fresh fruit and vegetables on long sea voyages, is a "re-emerging diagnosis" — partly due to cost-of-living pressures.

The cost-of-living squeeze and poor diets are putting people at a higher risk of developing scurvy, with a case caused by an acute vitamin C deficiency recently treated at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth.

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    How? Isn’t vitamin C everywhere? They have to have fruits and veggies, and even french fries and ketchup have some of the vitamin C. Like, I have an awful diet and I still manage to avoid scurvy. That’s wild.