BrisbaneA six-year-old died of a 19th-century disease.
Doctors and child-safety services had flagged his diet for years before he died.
Scurvy is now so rare in Australia that his deficiency was found only in post-mortem scans.
The multivitamin that lacked vitamin C remains on sale in Australia.
How each outlet framed it
- The Guardian
- documents rare modern scurvy death in Down syndrome child; multivitamin insufficiency implicated in cardiac arrest and fatal brain damage
Sources: The Guardian