What Doomed Franklin's Polar Expedition? Thumbnail Holds Clue

Monday, December 12, 2016 - 15:31 in Earth & Climate

Zinc deficiency, not lead poisoning, may have been a major factor in the declining health of the crew on the deadly 19th-century Arctic voyage.

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