One more suspected measles death reported in 24 hrs

One more suspected measles death was reported in the past 24 hours until 8:0am on Wednesday, said the health authorities on Wednesday.
With this, the total death toll from measles and measles-like symptoms reached 274 in the country, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) bulletin.
Of the total fatalities, 47 were confirmed as measles cases since March 15 this year, the DGHS said.
During the past hours, 88 new confirmed measles cases were also reported across the country along with 1,318 infections with measles-like symptoms.
Since mid-March, there were a total of 35,980 suspected measles cases along with 4,944 confirmed cases of measles.
As many as 24,310 patients were admitted to hospitals and 20,822 of them returned home after recovery.
Meanwhile, the health ministry vaccinated over 10 million jabs under two separate arrangements since April 5.
Measles is a highly contagious viral disease, which affects individuals of all ages and remains one of the leading causes of death among young children globally.
Measles is usually a mild or moderately severe disease.
However, measles can lead to complications such as pneumonia, diarrhea, secondary ear infection, inflammation of the brain (encephalitis), blindness, and death. Bangladesh had made substantial progress towards measles elimination before this outbreak.
However, stock out of vaccine in 2024-2025 resulted in the rise of the number of susceptible children and contributed to the current outbreak, said WHO.
Measles is endemic across the South-East Asia region.
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