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ID#:

7106

Caption:

This 1968 photograph depicted refugees washing their clothes, while staying at a relief camp during the Nigeria-Biafran conflict. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has served the international community as a technical resource in international public health and epidemiology, for many years, and has supplied short-term consultations to international relief organizations, working in emergencies since the Nigeria civil war. In 1967, the National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC) was asked to assist the ICRC in its disease control and death prevention efforts during the Nigerian-Biafran conflict. 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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Content Provider(s):

CDC/ Dr. Lyle Conrad

Creation Date:

1968

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