The Forgotten Disease in the 21st Century: Scurvy Outbreak in Hawassa Central Prison, Hawassa, Sidama, Southern Ethiopia, 2023.

For clinicians in modern medicine, there should be a high index of suspicion for scurvy as a possible differential diagnosis when a patient presents with leg swelling in high-risk population, such as prisoners. Health-care providers in prison clinics need to be alert to such forgotten yet life-costly disease in resource constrained prison clinics.