{"id":32963,"date":"2026-04-25T05:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/the-death-toll-from-measles-in-bangladesh-rises-to-240-including-7-children\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T05:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:50:45","slug":"the-death-toll-from-measles-in-bangladesh-rises-to-240-including-7-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/the-death-toll-from-measles-in-bangladesh-rises-to-240-including-7-children\/","title":{"rendered":"The death toll from measles in Bangladesh rises to 240, including 7 children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/thumbs_b_c_3af7e1af5eb4fd6d90c24f893079f6c7.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh reported 7 more measles deaths today, bringing the total to 240 since mid-March, the Health Ministry said, reports Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of infections from the contagious disease has surpassed 29,500 since March 15, including nearly 1,400 new cases reported in the past 24 hours, according to the General Directorate of Services. Health.<\/p>\n<p>The government is facing a serious shortage of measles test kits. Bangladesh has reported infections in 58 of 64 districts indicating &#8220;widespread national transmission,&#8221; the World Health Organization (WHO) said in an assessment late Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The majority, or 79 percent, of reported cases are children under 5.<\/p>\n<p>The capital Dhaka reported the highest number of infections, particularly in densely populated informal settlements, according to WHO.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the government launched a special vaccination campaign targeting children aged 6-59 months. Before this outbreak, Bangladesh had made significant progress towards eliminating measles.<\/p>\n<p>However, recent declines in vaccination coverage occurred due to a national vaccine stockpile between 2024 and 2025, combined with routine immunization gaps and the lack of regular national supplementary measles and rubella campaigns from 2020, it said. WHO.<\/p>\n<p>We use cookies to improve the experience and to display advertisements (Google AdSense).<br \/>\n          By clicking &#8220;Accept&#8221;, you agree to the use of cookies according to<br \/>\n          Privacy Policy<br \/>\n          and<br \/>\n          Cookies Policy.<br \/>\n          You can reject non-necessary cookies by clicking &#8220;Reject&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh reported 7 more measles deaths today, bringing the total to 240 since mid-March, the Health Ministry said, reports Anadolu. The total number of infections from the contagious disease has surpassed 29,500 since March 15, including nearly 1,400 new cases reported in the past 24 hours, according to the General Directorate of Services. Health. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-32963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":7,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32965,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32963\/revisions\/32965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}