LOMOLEM, Kenya ¨C Hellen Etiman, a Kenyan pastoralist, believed her severely malnourished son would soon recover after starting a course of life-saving specialized food.
Instead, 4-year-old Peter Lokoyen relapsed in July when the health facility treating him ran out of supplies, leaving the family to rely on wild fruit foraged in the barren plains of Turkana county, in the country¡¯s northwest.
By late October, he weighed 11.4 kilograms ¡ª a third less than the median for boys his age listed by the World Health Organization ¡ª and measured just over 87 centimeters. His 20-month-old sister, Melvine, was nearly as tall as he was.
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