One step forward, five steps back? The re-emergence of Victorian diseases in the UK

We are living in the age of incredible medical advances that include gene-therapy and individualised medicine. Despite better treatments for infectious diseases and reductions in death rates related to chronic diseases; we are seeing a rise in diseases and conditions that in the developed world had been consigned to medical history. Over the past five years in the UK, there have been a resurgence in rickets and scarlet fever, tuberculosis (TB) and gout. Some believe the increase in rickets and gout is due to malnutrition and poor diet (Karanikolos et al., 2013) as a result of austerity and poverty (Anonymous, 2014).
Source: International Emergency Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research