{"id":620885,"date":"2026-09-11T00:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T00:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620885\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T00:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T00:18:12","slug":"1000-deaths-from-bangladesh-measles-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620885\/","title":{"rendered":"1,000+ Deaths from Bangladesh Measles Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 1,000 deaths have been reported in Bangladesh as a <a href=\"https:\/\/respiratory-therapy.com\/tag\/measles\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1892\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">measles<\/a> outbreak has gripped the country since March 2026. <\/p>\n<p>US News &amp; World Report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2026-09-09\/suspected-measles-cases-kill-nearly-1-000-as-bangladesh-struggles-to-contain-outbreak\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cited data<\/a> from the country\u2019s health minister, who reported 999 measles-related deaths since March. Meanwhile, the federal database <a href=\"https:\/\/measles.dghs.gov.bd\/bulletin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reports that number to be 1,009<\/a>, as of Sept 9 data.<\/p>\n<p>US News says that the nation\u2019s measles vaccination efforts have unsuccessfully stemmed the rise in cases, which may be as high as 166,000. <\/p>\n<p>According to US News, an emergency vaccination drive was launched by the Bangladeshi government and international agencies in March, starting with infants and toddlers before expanding nationwide. Over 18 million children were vaccinated. <\/p>\n<p>However, cases continued to rise. <\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization <a href=\"https:\/\/immunizationdata.who.int\/global\/wiise-detail-page\/measles-vaccination-coverage?CODE=BGD&amp;ANTIGEN=&amp;YEAR=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">estimates<\/a> 86% of children in Bangladesh are fully vaccinated in 2025, down from 93% in 2024, US News reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany children have still not received the measles vaccine, so we cannot go into a relaxed mode,\u201d Tajul Abdul Bari, the former program manager of the government\u2019s Expanded Program on Immunization, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/09\/09\/g-s1-141466\/measles-outbreak-vaccination-bangladesh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told NPR<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s new vaccination target is 22.6 million children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 1,000 deaths have been reported in Bangladesh as a measles outbreak has gripped the country since March&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3171,103,61,2757,60,16082,263660],"class_list":["post-620885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-global-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-ireland","tag-measles","tag-vaccine-mmr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}