Keywords: Calabar 1968.png en This late 1960s photograph depicts a helicopter which has landed at a make-shift airport in Calabar Nigeria upon which health workers were loading crates of dried fish a favorite food in that area to be shipped to refugee camps during the Nigerian-Biafran war In 1967 the CDC was asked to assist the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC in its disease control and death prevention efforts during the Nigerian-Biafran war A large number of relief camps were established for purposes of nutrition assessment and feeding operations for the local villagers around the war zone 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 United Nations Biafra Images from the CDC Public Health Image Library |