Suspected measles outbreak leaves nearly 100 children dead in Bangladesh
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\nAccording to Bangladeshi authorities, a suspected measles outbreak has killed at least 98 children in the past three weeks, Al Jazeera reported.<\/p>\n
The capital, Dhaka, is reportedly ramping up vaccination efforts in the worst affected areas.<\/p>\n
Last week, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman directed two senior ministers to travel across the South Asian nation of 170 million people to assess the scale of the crisis to help coordinate a response.<\/p>\n
Data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released on Sunday showed that the number of children aged six months to five years old with suspected measles symptoms soared to 6,476.<\/p>\n
The largest number of suspected cases on record was in 2005 at 25,934, according to World Health Organization (WHO) data. That number had significantly declined in succeeding years until this year.<\/p>\n
Rashid attributed the potential outbreak to \u201cmultifactorial causes, including a shortage of vaccines\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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