Rising cost of food blamed for scurvy outbreak in Sask. community

Описание: The rising cost of healthy food is being blamed for a scurvy outbreak in the northern Saskatchewan community of La Ronge, where at least 27 cases have been diagnosed. The centuries-old disease, caused by Vitamin C deficiency, was once all but eradicated.

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