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ID#:

7144

Caption:

This 1968 photograph, taken during the Nigerian-Biafran civil war inside a refugee camp, highlighted a box of salted dried codfish that was distributed to camp residents. This salted fish helped to supplement the protein deficient diets of the camp inhabitants, who were suffering from protein malnutrition, which would eventually lead to kwashiorkor. 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 at numerous relief camps outside of the war zone. The NCDC carried out rapid health and nutritional assessments, coordinated the overall health and nutritional response, and implemented surveillance systems to track rates of illness and death.

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Content Provider(s):

CDC/ Dr. Lyle Conrad

Creation Date:

1968

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