Chief Medical Officer ‘ashamed’ as rickets makes a comeback

Chief Medical Officer ‘ashamed’ as rickets makes a comeback
40 per cent of English children have some kind of vitamin D deficiency... 


The disease that killed a million piglets in China has spread to the US, and no one knows why
America’s pork industry has been gripped by an outbreak of porcine diarrhea since mid-May, the first appearance of the condition in North America. US farmers have reported 768 cases of the disease, known as porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), through the first week of October, which implies that many more thousands of animals could be affected.