The highest number of cases was recorded in 2005 with 25,934 patients. Since then, cases declined. Only 132 cases were reported in 2025. The number of cases in the last five years (2020 to 2024) were 2,410, 203, 311, 281 and 247 respectively, with no deaths during that period. The measles outbreak in the country […]
Senjuti Saha: Absolutely. Genomic surveillance is extremely important to combat future pandemics. We believe the next pandemic may once again emerge from a respiratory virus. During the Covid pandemic, the world managed to identify the virus as SARS-CoV-2 because scientists could rapidly perform genome sequencing. If Bangladesh can regularly collect and sequence samples from hospitals […]
“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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Many people consider measles and rubella to be the same, but there are fundamental differences: measles: The fever is usually high, the rash lasts for 5-7 days, leaves deep marks on the skin and may lead to complications such as pneumonia or diarrhea. Rubella (German measles): Fever is usually mild, rash lasts for about three […]
The minister launched the campaign from Nawabganj. The event moderated by Nawabganj Upazila Health and Family Welfare Officer Sakhawat Hossain was also addressed by UNICEF Bangladesh representative Rana Flowers, Ahmed Jamshed Hasan, Director General of Health Services Prabhat Chandra Choudhary and others. In the program, the Health Minister said that due to delay of several […]
At the opening ceremony of the International Pharmaceutical Industry Fair at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Center last Sunday, Health Minister Sardar Sakhawat Hossain said in response to questions from journalists, “Measles vaccines were administered eight years ago, and none have been given since then.” The context of the minister’s statement was the recent rise in […]
According to the World Health Organization, there are currently six licensed vaccines against human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes many cancers, including cervical cancer, as well as vaccines against hepatitis B (HBV), which causes liver cancer. Can become. During the coronavirus pandemic, Russia developed its own Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 and sold it to several […]
For the first time in Bangladesh, the second phase trial of dengue vaccine has been successful. Researchers from the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDRB) and the Larner College of Medicine of the University of Vermont conducted this successful trial. ICDDR, B Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator of the trial Rashidul Haq and […]
Chikungunya, which causes fever and severe joint pain, is commonly seen in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Southeast Asia, and parts of the Americas. “However, chikungunya virus has spread to new geographic areas, increasing the global spread of the disease,” the FDA said, adding that more than five million cases have been reported over […]