Journal of Nutrition and Food Security

en Warning of the Dangers of War, Economic Blockade, Food Security and Hygiene in the Spread of Parasitic and Infectious Disease public specific letter to the editor <div style="text-align: justify;">We are writing to express our deep concern about the devastating and often overlooked synergy between geopolitical conflicts and disease outbreaks. While the immediate toll of war and economic sanctions is regularly reported, silent killers, parasitic, and infectious diseases thrive in the shadow of instability, and we must sound the alarm before these secondary crises take even more lives. Studies show that in times of conflict, the infrastructure of civilization: clean water, sanitation, and health care, are often the first casualties. War and economic blockades do not just destroy buildings; they dismantle the systems that keep populations healthy</div> war, economic blockade, food security, parasitic and infectious disease 515 516 http://jnfs.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-931-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Ali Fattahi Bafghi 0000-0001-8469-2187 No Medical Parasitology & Mycology Department, School of Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Hassan Mozaffari-Khosravi mozaffari.kh@gmail.com 0000-0002-3513-1778 Yes Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.