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| Keywords: 1968 4 Nigeria CDC.png en This 1968 photograph showed a nearly empty box of dried fish that was being distributed to nutritionally deprived refugees of the Nigerian-Biafran civil war During the Nigerian-Biafran civil war the CDC assisted in delivering food to the refugees However due to a lack of international help health officials could not get enough food to everyone so they relied on a high protein distribution effort i e dried fish dried milk etc that was supplemented with locally-grown carbohydrates such as yams and cassava manioc melons Dr Lyle Conrad and Dr William H Foege established a standard for height and weight for the Nigerian children which before that time did not exist 1968 CDC http //phil cdc gov/phil/details asp CDC/ Dr Lyle Conrad other versions PD-USGov Uploaded with UploadWizard Nigeria in the 1960s Famines in Africa Images from the CDC Public Health Image Library | ||||
