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.
[A] devastating measles outbreak in Bangladesh.
Since the virus took off in mid-March, the country has tallied more than 60,000 suspected cases and 528 suspected measles-related deaths. The vast majority of the sick and dead are children under age 5.
It sounds like part of the issue is health care capacity:
Her worried parents, like many other families, took her to the capital, Dhaka, where hospitals have the capacity to care for patients with a severe case. The journey took several hours. But once there, the child was turned away by two facilities already overwhelmed by the crush of measles patients.
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?
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