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This historic late 1960s photograph depicted a number of men, who were in the process of loading wooden crates of dried fish on to a helicopter, which had landed at a make-shift airport in Calabar, Nigeria. This food is a staple amongst the native population, and was about to be shipped to refugee camps in the region during the Nigerian-Biafran war. In 1967, the National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC) was asked to assist the International Committee of the Red Cross (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
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