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Infectious disease and famine: how COVID-19 increases the risk of malnutrition, and vice versa, in a vicious cycle

10.06.22 | PLOS

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Infectious Disease and Famine: How COVID-19 increases the risk of malnutrition, and vice versa, in a vicious cycle
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 p Credit: Hyder S, et al., 2022, PLOS Pathogens, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Article URL: http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010810

Article Title: Pestilence and famine: Continuing down the vicious cycle with COVID-19

Author Countries : Cambodia and Thailand

Funding: see manuscript

PLOS Pathogens

10.1371/journal.ppat.1010810

Literature review

Not applicable

Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Keywords

Covid 19 Disease Outbreaks Famines Health and Medicine Immunology Infectious Disease Transmission Life Sciences Malnutrition Pathogens Viruses

Article Information

Journal
PLOS Pathogens
DOI
10.1371/journal.ppat.1010810
Method of Research
Literature review
Subject of Research
Not applicable
COI Statement
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Contact Information

Claire Turner
PLOS
plospathogenspress@plos.org
Jerome Jaymond
Institut Pasteur du Cambodge
jjaymond@pasteur-kh.org

How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2022, October 6). Infectious disease and famine: how COVID-19 increases the risk of malnutrition, and vice versa, in a vicious cycle. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/1EOPG6QL/infectious-disease-and-famine-how-covid-19-increases-the-risk-of-malnutrition-and-vice-versa-in-a-vicious-cycle.html
MLA:
"Infectious disease and famine: how COVID-19 increases the risk of malnutrition, and vice versa, in a vicious cycle." Brightsurf News, Oct. 6 2022, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/1EOPG6QL/infectious-disease-and-famine-how-covid-19-increases-the-risk-of-malnutrition-and-vice-versa-in-a-vicious-cycle.html.