File:Starved girl.jpg
Summary
This late 1960s photograph shows a seated, listless child, who was among many kwashiorkor cases found in Nigerian relief camps during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian-Biafran_War" class="extiw" title="en:Nigerian-Biafran War">Nigerian–Biafran war</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwashiorkor" class="extiw" title="en:Kwashiorkor">Kwashiorkor</a> 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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| current | 09:50, 4 January 2017 | | 1,177 × 1,788 (639 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | This late 1960s photograph shows a seated, listless child, who was among many kwashiorkor cases found in Nigerian relief camps during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian-Biafran_War" class="extiw" title="en:Nigerian-Biafran War">Nigerian–Biafran war</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwashiorkor" class="extiw" title="en:Kwashiorkor">Kwashiorkor</a> 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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