A Country that Made Huge Progress on Measles Now Reports 120,000 Cases
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The death toll from the measles outbreak in Bangladesh has risen sharply. Since mid-March, nearly 750 children have died who had measles or showed symptoms of the contagious infectious disease, reports the Bangladeshi Ministry of Health. According to UNICEF, the actual death toll is likely even higher. Hospitals are overloaded and it is difficult to collect all the data, the UN children's rights organization told the BBC. In the South Asian cou…
The UN children's organization Unicef believes the real numbers are higher.
In Bangladesh, around 750 people have died from measles this year, reports the Bangladeshi Ministry of Health. There has been a massive outbreak since March, which is partly the result of political unrest.
A country that made huge progress on measles now reports 120,000 cases
“I have never seen an outbreak this huge,” says paediatrician Dr Mohammed Golam Mawla, as we look around a measles ward in the Bangladeshi city of Mymensingh. Until March this year, Bangladesh had made “substantial progress” towards eliminating measles, according to the World Health Organisation. Vaccination rates had been higher than 90% until recently. But that progress has quickly and suddenly come undone. Since March, government figures show…
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