Bangladesh Launches Emergency Vaccination Drive as Measles Deaths Exceed 300

Over 300 deaths recorded including 17 children in a single day; millions of under-vaccinated children at risk, particularly in Dhaka and Rajshahi divisions.

In Bangladesh, a preventable disease has claimed more than 300 lives in fifty days — among them seventeen children in a single afternoon — exposing not a failure of medicine, but a failure of governance. Measles, long tamed in nations that tend their public health infrastructure, has found fertile ground in a population of children left unprotected by years of administrative neglect and a procurement system that collapsed during political transition. The government now races to vaccinate millions of young children, confronting a crisis that was written into the ledger long before the first chi

Bangladesh Launches Emergency Vaccination Drive as Measles Deaths Exceed 300

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