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Trigger levels for urgent action
| Rise in mortality |
| • Crude mortality > 1/10 000/day |
| • Mortality in children aged <5 years >4/10 000/day |
| Fall in energy supply |
| • <1500 kcal/day in adults |
| • <100 kcal/kg/day in infants and small children |
| • Reduced z score or MUAC in 10% of children aged <5 years |
| • Wasting >15% of normal body weight |
