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A new lady's-slipper orchid, once believed to be extinct in the UK, has been spotted in the wild for the first time in 100 ...
Flower once nearly extinct found in the wild for first time in a century - It is being described as a ‘truly thrilling moment ...
The Canadian city of Victoria has been called more English than the English. That’s because the British immigrants who ...
A host of "forgotten" diseases that plagued Victorian Britain more than 150 years ago is making a shocking comeback in modern life, medics have revealed. Cases of scurvy, rickets, scabies and ...
There has been a 380 per cent increase in cases of Rickets - a Victorian-era disease in a few areas of the ... as some parts of Thanet - among the poorest in England. More than 20 per cent of the ...
NHS England figures show a sharp increase ... cost of living is likely to be behind the surge in rickets and scurvy - another Victorian era disease - as parents struggle to afford fruit and ...
Nationally, NHS England figures point to a sharp ... Agency - in 2019 - to address reports that Dickensian or Victorian illnesses like rickets, whooping cough and Scarlet Fever were again on ...
Health experts have warned that several Victorian-era illnesses are making ... with vitamin supplements and foods like oranges. Rickets is also making a comeback. It’s caused by a vitamin ...
LBC’s findings, which have been described as “shocking” by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, represent a dramatic increase in the incidence of Victorian ... for rickets. In 2010-11, only 3,500 cases of ...
Rickets is a deficiency disease caused by a lack of calcium or vitamin D. Like scurvy, it was widespread in the Victorian slums ... confirmed measles cases in England - compared with 54 in the ...
THE Victorian disease rickets has made an alarming comeback among adults in Scotland, it was revealed last month. Amid the cost of living crisis, cases are now 700 per cent higher than in England ...