A disease once associated with sailors on long voyages has claimed a life in an unexpected place: a modern children's hospital in Australia.
Six-year-old Connor Dean developed severe vitamin C deficiency and features consistent with scurvy before suffering a cardiac arrest under general anaesthesia in 2024. A Queensland coroner has since found that the deficiency was the most likely underlying factor in the events leading to his death, although the precise cause of the cardiac arrest could not be established.
