A severe Victorian disease has returned to the UK with the NHS warning of a sudden rise in admissions - as well as four crucial warning signs not to be ignored. Gout affects around 1.5 million Brits and is a type of arthritis that causes extreme joint pain.
Cases have risen by 20 per cent in the last three years and approximately 250,000 people have been admitted to hospital with gout from 2021-22, the NHS says. MailOnline said Brits were warned earlier this year that cases of Victorian illnesses had hit a five-year high.
The Mirror exclusively reported that patients in England were diagnosed with one of 13 Victorian diseases when admitted to hospital on 421,370 occasions in the year to March 2022, according to NHS figures. These include all people admitted with these illnesses - which include gout, tuberculosis, malnutrition, whooping cough, measles, scurvy, typhoid, scarlet fever, diphtheria, mumps, rickets, cholera, and vitamin D deficiency - even if it wasn’t the primary reason for their admission.
