Scurvy is part of the pathologies known as avitaminosis. The latter are disorders where some of the vitamins are lacking in sufficient quantity for the normal development of bodily functions.
In the case of scurvy, the missing vitamin is C, also called ascorbic acid . It is very difficult for this to happen, and that is why it is not common in these times where the availability of fruit is quite wide.
The history of humanity went through particular and general situations of nutritional deficiency, and there it could manifest itself. Long boat trips, for example, were contexts where fruit was not available. Prolonged droughts in territories that depended exclusively on the harvest, too.
At present, cases have been diagnosed in refugee camps, as the deprivation conditions of antiquity are reproduced. Poor areas of the world, where crops are the only source of income, are also exposed to scurvy.
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