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Saving Ahmed from starvation

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A race to save the starvingThere is no way to dignify the description of death by starvation -- it is neither quick nor painless, Dr. Sanjay Gupta writes from the Somali border.


Saving Ahmed from starvation

Sanjay Gupta,
Chief Medical Correspondent

August 10, 2011 11:58 a.m. EDT

Gupta: 'Starvation not quick, painless'

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

International Rescue Committee hospital is filled with people starving to death

Ahmed Mohammad, 6, is treated for malnutrition at hospital on Somalia-Kenya border

Once fat is all gone, a starving person's body resorts to eating muscle tissue

Patients like Ahmed must be given calories in small amounts because of shrunken stomachs

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/08/10/saving.ahmed.gupta/index.html?hpt=hp_c1




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