Word: kwashiorkor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supplement its crops. Since the recent downing of a Red Cross food plane by Nigerian MIGs (see color opposite), relief planes paid for by Catholic and Protestant charities have been able to bring in less than 100 tons weekly. As a result, an often-fatal protein-deficiency disease called kwashiorkor has broken out again, mostly among children...
...deformed bones. This is another disease supposedly eradicated 30 years ago, principally by adding vitamin D to milk. Though milk shipped abroad in U.S. food programs has long been required to have vitamin D additions, until last fall milk supplied in domestic welfare programs needed no such supplements. ¶ KWASHIORKOR, a drastic protein deficiency that has killed untold thousands of children in Biafra and scarred others with the hideous trademarks of hunger-large eyes and bloated bellies. Schaefer found seven U.S. cases. ¶ NIGHT BLINDNESS, a retinal malfunction caused by lack of vitamin A. Nearly a third of the children...
...famine threat-unlike kwashiorkor, the debilitating protein deficiency that threatened Biafra earlier this year-stems from a shortage of carbohydrate staples such as yams. The Biafran government is attempting to prevent the worst by urging farmers to plant more rice, but the outlook is grim. "The stocks will be gone by January," says an aide to Lieut. Colonel Odu-megwu Ojukwu, Biafra's leader. "There is nothing to plant and nothing to eat in the lean months from May to September. Nor will there be a harvest next September...
Children's War. The real enemy, however, is the protein shortage that afflicts blockaded Biafra, and grows worse with each day. Attempts to alleviate it through large-scale relief measures have so far foundered on either Nigerian or Biafran intransigence. Kwashiorkor, a deadly protein deficiency, is killing scores of Ojukwu's people daily. Estimates of the extent of the suffering are at best approximate, but from 1,500 to 40,000 Biafrans are dying of starvation each week. The grisly figures are expected to mount dramatically if the war does not end soon. "There is so little food...
...immediately surrounded by haggard faces begging for medicine, food, anything. At the Seventh-day Adventist Hospital in Okpala, a sign at the gate reads "No Vacancy." At Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Umuahia, the largest in the region, doctors one day recently counted 1,800 patients suffering from kwashiorkor: during the whole of 1963, the same hospital treated 18 such cases. At the military hospital in the same city, Major David Ofomata, chief medical adviser, tells visitors that everything from antibiotics to catgut is needed, and explains that surgeons have to operate without being able to anesthetize their patients...