Keywords: 1968 5Nigeria CDC.png en This photograph showed two malnourished Nigerian children that were being cared for in a refugee relief camp in the late 1960s during the Nigerian-Biafran civil war The CDC helped to treat the 500 000 cases of malnutrition by setting up food distribution centers and clinics in refugee relief camps surrounding the Nigerian war zone Protein enriched foods such as dried codfish and powdered milk were made available to the children suffering with the protein-calorie malnutrition disease called kwashiorkor 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 |