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News & Current Events Apr 7, 2026 at 10:36 PM

Bangladesh conducts emergency measles vaccinations as outbreak kills more than 100 children

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Bangladesh conducts emergency measles vaccinations as outbreak kills more than 100 children
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Bangladesh conducts emergency measles vaccinations as outbreak kills more than 100 children
Bangladesh is conducting emergency measles-rubella vaccinations while trying to contain an ongoing outbreak that has killed more than 100 children.
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AudibleNod Apr 7, 2026 +120
>More than 900 cases of measles have been confirmed among 7,500 suspected cases reported since March 15, according to the official data in the South Asian nation of more than 170 million people. 100 dead with 900 confirmed cases terrifying. USAID stopped $700,000,000.00 in aid to Bangladesh in 2025.
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QuantumLettuce2025 Apr 7, 2026 +22
It's coming to the US next.
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Knees0ck Apr 7, 2026 +63
It is already here. A fair few of the concentration camps with kids are deliberately left to get measles, a few states have many cases of it.
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QuantumLettuce2025 Apr 7, 2026 +10
I know measles is already here. I'm saying wide scale death is coming next.
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sawyouoverthere Apr 8, 2026 -9
Unlikely. The death rate for measles is not “wide scale”
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savvy-misanthrope Apr 8, 2026 +1
That's an argument for enforcing LEGAL immigration, which ensures new arrivals have vaccination records, or get the vaccine.
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sawyouoverthere Apr 8, 2026 +8
What are you talking about? There’s been measles in the US for more than a year now
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Alexis_J_M Apr 8, 2026 +5
But not mass death. Yet. I hope the antivaxxers rot in hell.
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sawyouoverthere Apr 8, 2026 -2
It’s not that kind of virus.
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Alexis_J_M Apr 8, 2026 +4
Measles killed a few million kids a year before the vaccines were developed. Yes, it's that kind of virus.
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Familiar-One-5161 Apr 8, 2026 +4
We'll never know for certain, I don't think. The CDC is not tracking things the same way they used to, and making public reports. Does anyone really believe that the CDC is going to release accurate data, or that state health databases are going to be able to collect accurate data from hospitals and compile that to hand over? It was hard enough during that first COVID wave. My hospital in a Red county in California didn't call count it as a COVID infection if you didn't meet specific criteria like having traveled out of the country or being exposed to someone who had, etc etc. So for a while my county was definitely underreported. Things changed as time went on, but my hospital definitely took advantage of not reporting as much as they could.
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ni_hao_butches Apr 7, 2026
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Siny_AML Apr 7, 2026 +34
There’s literally a measles outbreak in the US. Good luck everybody
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Familiar-One-5161 Apr 8, 2026 +4
Yup, I got vaccinated again because I don't believe we'll get accurate notification of outbreaks from the CDC. I'm an RN in California and also in a Union, so I know I'll be able to get info from other RNs about outbreaks. Pay attention to news announcements from nurses, everyone.
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Gone2georgia Apr 8, 2026 +16
Those poor children and their parents. UNICEF website says that one dose of measles vaccine is 12-40 cents and combined with rubella is 66 cents. So little money to help.
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Visual_Collapse Apr 7, 2026 +8
Lethality is up to 2 in 1000. This means there are 50000+ cases. Can become continent-wide problem soon.
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invalidpassword Apr 8, 2026 +5
I doubt if that wacko RFK Jr. gives a flying f***.
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En4cr Apr 7, 2026 +4
First world problems in the US, third world problems in Bangladesh*. Both are an equally serious problem regardless of geography but one is magnified by stupidity and the other by greed. Mind blowing this still happens in 2026. *Thanks for the heads up.
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dope_star Apr 8, 2026 +10
Bangladesh is a separate country from India......
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SarcasticComment30 Apr 8, 2026 +10
The article is about Bangladesh. A country separate and different from India.
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therealcoon Apr 8, 2026 +5
What's mind blowing that people think India and Bangladesh are the same country.
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DGASAP Apr 8, 2026 +6
Uneducated and ignorant Americans.
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Kenju4u Apr 8, 2026 +1
Bangladesh has a lot of problems. This might be the easier one to fix.
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DefinitelyNotChriz Apr 8, 2026 +1
The trump supporters be like: "but but you just gave these kids autism."
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LionBastard1 Apr 8, 2026 +1
Why don't they just drink raw milk since it's all natural? /s
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murderwaffle Apr 7, 2026 +25
not getting your children vaccinated in a developing country is very different than not getting them vaccinated in a developed country. This was much less likely choice and much more likely lack of access, financial and geographical challenges, lack of infrastructure, etc.
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SavathunTechQuestion Apr 7, 2026 +7
Did you read the article? It’s not the same issue as the US where its freely available but anti-vax idiots with their misinformed views are killing kids and ruining lives. As the other comment mentioned the US cut USAID money last year that helped with vaccine programs, that stockpiles/supplies of vaccines didnt have enough, and “The vaccination campaign for measles was disrupted during Bangladesh’s recent political upheavals. Hasina was ousted in a mass uprising in 2024, and Yunus led an interim administration that transferred power to an elected government after an election in February.” Tuberculosis is another disease that USAID helped Bangladesh fight but with that cut deaths are going up again. 
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Frodojj Apr 7, 2026 +7
The previous provisional government and the corrupt one before that mismanaged vaccine supplies, according to the article. So there is a shortage available doses.
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TheGloryBe_throwaway Apr 7, 2026 +2
What country are you from?
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bicycle_mice Apr 7, 2026 +1
It is hard to get vaccinated in some developing countries 
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2-wheels Apr 8, 2026
What would a Republican do?
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