Shabnur Begum (left) arrived at DNCC Covid Hospital in Mahakhali, Dhaka from Kamilla with her three seven-month-old children suffering from measles. His two sons, Yusuf and Imran, are admitted in the ICU, while his other child, Yasmin, is being treated in the children’s ward. The photo was taken on 10 May 2026.Dipu Malakar
“There is a lack of publicity and awareness about the vaccine. People are skeptical,” Professor Be-Nazir Ahmed, a public health expert and former director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) under the DGHS, told Prothom Alo. “Previously, babies as young as nine months old would receive the vaccine, but now this age has been […]
Of the seven children who died in the last 24 hours, two were from Chattogram division and two from Rajshahi. Besides, one child each died in Sylhet, Khulna and Barishal divisions. With this, the total number of deaths due to measles and measles symptoms in the country in the last 52 days has reached 324. […]
The World Health Organization states that children with weakened immune systems are at greater risk of measles. People who have not been vaccinated, or who have not developed immunity after vaccination, face greater risk. Physicians at the Bangladesh Infant Hospital and Institute of Infectious Diseases Hospital report that children suffering from measles often develop pneumonia, […]
Professor Mahmudur Rahman, Chairman of the National Verification Committee for Measles and Rubella Elimination (NVC) and former Director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), was also present at the meeting. The NVC evaluates the country’s progress towards measles and rubella elimination, informs the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Commission and advises […]
Prime Minister Tariq Rahman told the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) today that his government has taken necessary steps to stop the measles outbreak. “Many of our children have died of measles. However, we are trying to control the entire situation in the coming days,” he said while replying to a supplementary question by opposition MLA Salah […]
An emergency vaccination campaign has been launched across the country to combat the spread of measles. Under this initiative, the government has targeted to vaccinate about 18 million (1.8 crore) children aged six to 59 months. On Monday morning, Health and Family Welfare Advisor Sardar Mohammad Sakhawat Hussain inaugurated the campaign at Little Angel Seminary […]
In addition to the measles cases, the hospital had 17 AIDS patients, one of diarrhea, eight of smallpox, one of rabies, eight of tetanus, two of black fever, one of malaria and one of anthrax. A patient with unusual lesions was also admitted there. Every child admitted to the hospital is accompanied by more than […]
The nationwide measles-rubella vaccination campaign begins today, Monday, targeting all children aged six months to five years. Professor MD Zahid Raihan, Additional Director General (Administration) at DGHS, said around 18 million children will be vaccinated during the campaign, which will run from April 20 to May 20. According to the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), […]
Doctors’ organization DPPH has urged the government to declare the ongoing measles situation in the country an “epidemic” and take emergency measures. When the spread of a disease becomes unusual in terms of time, space and affected population, when infections and deaths increase, and when the health system can no longer cope, it constitutes a […]
Officials from UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO) and DGHS participated in the workshop organized at the National Institute of Mass Communication. It was told that Bangladesh has set a target to eliminate measles by December 2026. Elimination means that measles will no longer be transmitted from one person to another within a year. If such […]