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PortandTerminal.com, January 31, 2020 HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA – You don’t hear much about scurvy these days. Often mentioned in maritime history books, the disease is thankfully not something that most sailors need to worry about any longer. Scurvy is caused by a lack of vitamin C and takes approximately six weeks to set in. When trips by the sea were …
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