Scurvy, a disease that is most often associated with the Victorian era, is set to make a comeback and experts warn that it’s set to become more prevalent in the UK thanks to the cost of living crisis making accessing affordable fruit and vegetables difficult. Speaking to the Big Issue, professor Kamila Hawthorne, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners said: “A poor diet increases a patient’s risk of developing a range of nutritional diseases – malnutrition, rickets, scurvy, vitamin and folate deficiencies which are becoming increasingly common – but can also exacerbate chronic conditions which a patient has already developed.”She added that while food banks are an essential, brilliant resource, getting fruit and vegetables at them isn’t always possible: “This impacts in particular on Vitamin C intake as this is a water soluble vitamin required daily as it is not able to be stored in the body. Prolonged low intake will ultimately lead to scurvy.”What are the symptoms of scur