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Rickets makes a surprise comeback in Cleveland

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The disease often starts with pain in the legs, arms and spine. But babies with rickets can't tell anyone about the pain, so it's usually a seizure, a broken bone or the characteristic bowed legs that finally trigger a diagnosis.

Rickets -- a childhood disease caused by vitamin D deficiency and usually associated with the sooty skies of the industrial age -- is making a comeback.

And the reasons are surprising.

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gotta buys some leeches right away!

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