malnutrition
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"Children are still turning up in our health clinics with severe acute malnutrition," said Janti Soeripto of Save the Children, adding the numbers rose from January to April.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
A local elder says that child mortality, mainly due to malnutrition, has "really gone up" in the last two years.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Aid trucks are no longer diverted from reaching their destinations en masse, and child malnutrition cases have plummeted.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Displaced families now live in vast tent settlements, where they face malnutrition, hunger and the spread of disease.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
The crowding, poor nutrition, and lack of hygiene made disease rampant; from typhus to scarlet fever, from malnutrition to psychosis, illness of some kind struck nearly every family.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
Vocabulary lists containing malnutrition
Nutrition - Introductory
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Nutrition - Middle School
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Nelson Mandela "I am Prepared to Die" (1964)
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