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This image was selected as a picture of the day for August 16, 2008. It was captioned as followed:
English: a seated, listless child, who was among many kwashiorkor cases found in Nigerian relief camps during the Nigerian–Biafran war.
English: a seated, listless child, who was among many kwashiorkor cases found in Nigerian relief camps during the Nigerian–Biafran war.
Italiano: Un bambino affetto da kwashiorkor in un campo per rifugiati durante la guerra civile nigeriana (1967–1970).
Português: Um refugiado, criança apática, que estava entre os muitos casos de kwashiorkor, desnutrição, encontrados nos campos de refugiados nigeriano durante a guerra nigeriano-Biafra.
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English: This late 1960s photograph shows a seated, listless child, who was among many kwashiorkor cases found in Nigerian relief camps during the Nigerian–Biafran war. Kwashiorkor is a disease brought on due to a severe dietary protein deficiency, and this child, whose diet fit such a deficiency profile, presented with symptoms including edema of legs and feet, light-colored, thinning hair, anemia, a pot-belly, and shiny skin. A large number of relief camps were established for nutrition assessment and feeding operations for the local villagers around the war zone.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
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late 1960s |
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Dr. Lyle Conrad |
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| 12:49, 17 November 2005 | 700×1,063 (71 KB) | Ske | (starved girl during the Nigerian-Biafran war ( late 1960s). {{PD-USGov}} source http://phil.cdc.gov/ uimage ID: 6901) |
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