In Bangladesh, a disease once nearly vanquished has returned with terrible force: nearly a thousand children have died of measles since January, their vulnerability the accumulated consequence of a pandemic that emptied clinics and a political upheaval that emptied vaccine centers. The country had come close to silencing measles entirely, recording fewer than three hundred cases a year between 2021 and 2025, only to watch that achievement unravel as immunization gaps widened across an entire generation of young children. Emergency campaigns are now underway with international partners, but the
Bangladesh measles outbreak kills nearly 1,000 as vaccination gaps widen
Nearly 1,000 children have died from suspected measles, with thousands more hospitalized suffering severe complications including pneumonia, encephalitis, and diarrhea.