Infectious Disease and Famine: How COVID-19 increases the risk of malnutrition, and vice versa, in a vicious cycle (IMAGE)

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Infectious Disease and Famine: How COVID-19 increases the risk of malnutrition, and vice versa, in a vicious cycle

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Some key facts and points on the vicious cycle of nutrition and infectious disease. Nutrition is critical for immune response and protection from infection. A significant proportion of people in the world are malnourished, a major concern for infectious disease. COVID-19 has increased malnutrition worldwide, creating conditions that may lead to the next pandemic. “People pack” by Dumitriu Robert, “Coronavirus pack” by Graphic Mall, “Coronavirus icon pack” by SkyClick, and “Coronavirus COVID-19 pack” by Eucalyp Studio are all available at http://www.iconfinder.com under a Creative Commons (Attribution 3.0 Unported) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). “Phosphor Thin Vol.4 pack” by Phosphor Icons is available at https://www.iconfinder.com/iconsets/phosphor-thin-vol-4 under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Hyder S, et al., 2022, PLOS Pathogens, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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