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Bangladesh is battling measles. It's a 'real warning' to other nations Bangladesh is battling to contain the world’s worst measles outbreak, a crisis exacerbated by weak data, inadequate outreach and vaccination gaps that experts say offers a warning to other nations about the deadly risk of falling immunisation rates. Amin Mia and Sajina Begum pose with their four-year-old daughter who survived measles. Reuters.Bangladesh, whose routine vaccination programme faltered in 2025, reported 202,000 s...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed deep concern over the measles situation in Bangladesh. With infections spreading across 58 of the country’s 64 districts, the current situation has been assessed as a national ‘high-risk’ outbreak, according to a report published by the agency on...