One of the most famous scourges that the pirates of old had to endure was scurvy—the term for an extreme vitamin C deficiency ...

Scurvy, a vitamin C deficiency disease that plagued sailors and pirates centuries ago, appears to be re-emerging thanks to ...

The scourge of scurvy, which is caused by vitamin C deficiency, may be re-emerging amid the cost-of-living crisis and the rise in weight-loss (bariatric) surgery. This was suggested by doctors in ...