7-month-old severely malnourished Somali baby now doing well, though others dying from famine
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DADAAB, Kenya — Only 10 days ago, Minhaj Gedi Farah was too weak to cry and his skin crumpled liked thin leather under the pressure of his mother's hands. Now doctors say the severely malnourished 7-month-old appears out of danger of joining the more than 29,000 children who already have died in the famine.
It's a rare success story amid unimaginable misery for parents at the world's largest refugee camp — a place where a father must bury two of his daughters one day, and their brother the next.
Seven-month-old Minhaj though now weighs more than 8 pounds (3.8 kilograms) — still well below what he should for his age, but a major improvement from 7 pounds (3.2 kilograms) when he first arrived at a field hospital ward here.
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