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Crohn’s Disease affects the entire digestive system, and symptoms may include diarrhea, abdominal pain, and weight loss, as well as malnutrition and mouth sores.—
Lindy Segal,
PEOPLE,
24 Apr. 2026 -
As a result, Germany's civilian population faced severe food shortages and widespread malnutrition in the latter years of the war.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
16 Apr. 2026
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Reports that dozens of people had died, including some of apparent starvation, made no difference.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Apr. 2026
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Within the next few years, as famine spread throughout China and the Cultural Revolution began, her grandmother and three of her brothers died of starvation, tuberculosis, and drowning.—
René Ostberg,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
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