Measles outbreak in Bangladesh.
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[A] devastating measles outbreak in Bangladesh.
Since the virus took off in mid-March, the country has tallied more than 60,000 suspected cases and 528 suspected measles-related deaths. The vast majority of the sick and dead are children under age 5.
It sounds like part of the issue is health care capacity:
Her worried parents, like many other families, took her to the capital, Dhaka, where hospitals have the capacity to care for patients with a severe case. The journey took several hours. But once there, the child was turned away by two facilities already overwhelmed by the crush of measles patients.
And also a large unvaccinated group of young kids due to political change disrupting things — probably worth a read to understand the various factors.
The clickbaity title on a piece of information that they are pretending everyone should be aware of in said title. Lost some respect for this news outlet.
Not to sound crass as obviously the human toll is devastating regardless, but isn't 500 children in Bangladesh a rounding error basically? What makes this measles outbreak more significant than any other
The fact that it's measles, I guess?