rickets is making a comeback
May 2001
There's now concern that rickets is making a comeback.
It's a malnutrition problem. It seems that some infants don't get enough vitamin D...and end up with soft bones, poor growth, etc.
Rickets was virtually eradicated by the 1960s after milk and other products were fortified with vitamin D.
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