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Measles outbreak in Bangladesh.
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.
It sounds like part of the issue is health care capacity:
And also a large unvaccinated group of young kids due to political change disrupting things — probably worth a read to understand the various factors.
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?