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the long illness left him frail and underweight
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Eritrea and Timor-Leste had the highest rates of underweight women, and Ethiopia and Eritrea had the highest rates of underweight men, totaling 20% of the adult populations in each country.—Arianna Johnson, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa are also experiencing much more obesity than underweight, the study said.—Elaine Chen Reprints, STAT, 29 Feb. 2024 Brothers, a retired manager of the science center, said almost all birds that strand on the beach are seriously underweight and suffering from a range of ailments that could include parasites, exhaustion or starvation.—USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024 In December of last year, the adorable orange tabby and his siblings were brought to the Arizona Humane Society underweight with severe upper respiratory infections.—The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2024 Recently released research from Copley Fund Research that examined 340 global equity fund managers responsible for $1 trillion in AUM revealed that nearly 80% are underweight China.—Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024 On Tuesday, Huss' mother, Sharon, rushed to pick up the feline, who was underweight and missing a tooth.—Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 2 Feb. 2024 Babies who do survive in utero are more likely to be born underweight and are therefore at higher risk of dying, Inglis said.—Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024 Asian fund managers have cut their allocation to China by 12 percentage points to a net 20% underweight, the lowest in more than a year, according to the latest Bank of America survey.—Abhishek Vishnoi, Fortune Asia, 20 Jan. 2024
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