Disease outbreaks
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. Bangladesh, whose routine vaccination programme faltered in 2025, reported 202,000 suspected measles cases – 22,000 of them laboratory-confirmed – since the start of the outbreak in mid-March to October 9, the World Health Organisation said. That’s more suspected cases than any other country this year. So far, 1,147 people have died of the highly c