{"id":370064,"date":"2026-04-08T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370064\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:25:13","slug":"emergency-jabs-after-100-children-die-of-suspected-measles-in-a-month-in-bangladesh-the-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370064\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency jabs after 100 children die of suspected measles in a month in Bangladesh | The Transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cevkz2z7dm8o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> Bangladesh is battling its worse measles outbreak in years, with more than 100 children dead amid a rise in unvaccinated infants.<\/p>\n<p>The government, in partnership with the United Nations, has begun conducting an emergency measles-rubella vaccination drive for children across the country, after more than 900 cases were confirmed since March.<\/p>\n<p>Measles is a highly contagious airborne disease causing fever, respiratory symptoms and a characteristic rash and can sometimes have severe or fatal complications, especially in young children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/read\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTFBpVmZSQURqQWV6czMwMGNBbXd6UWUzcmV5MzRzV3BrUzFwUC1uSDVLQzBqNHJERmdlUm1KSUpBS0l0b0twYkNfLUdPM0FxLXhFc0tEUm4wRmU0Zw?hl=en-US&amp;gl=US&amp;ceid=US%3Aen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Bangladesh is battling its worse measles outbreak in years, with more than 100 children dead amid a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-370064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}