Rickets is not a microbe. Rickets is a disease caused by the deficiency of Vitamin D, which is an essential vitamin (that is it is not produced by the body). Body gets vitamin D when sunlight falls on the skin.
No, rickets is not caused by microbes. Rickets is caused by a lack of vitamin D, calcium or phosphate.
No, it is caused by a deficiency of Vitamin C- like scurvy is.
if we don't eat any calcium in our life it will cause rickets
Cause they had no sunlight underwater
Rickets can cause short stature in children. However there are also many other possible causes.
Rickets
Anaemia is a deficiency of iron, night blindness is a deficiency if vitamin A and rickets is a deficiency of vitamin D.
scurvy
The need for vitamin D is greater in childhood. In infants and young children, lack of the vitamin can cause rickets (or rachitis). Rickets is a bone disorder that results in bowed legs, knock-knees, curved spines, and other abnormalities. Children with rickets have been discussed since Galen's time ( A.D. 130-200). A detailed description of rickets was provided as early as the seventeenth century. The cause of rickets, however, wasn't discovered until fairly recently.
Microbial disease.
Microbes don't cause HIV. HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, and the causative agent is a virus.
Rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults.