Why Bangladesh has lost 1,000 lives to measles despite record vaccine drive
- Dhaka, Bangladesh – One-year-old Saif Hasan died within minutes of being taken into intensive care at Dhaka’s Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) on August 27.
- The child from the southern Bangladesh district of Shariatpur had developed a fever and rashes days after receiving his first measles-rubella vaccine.
- His family wondered whether the vaccine had made him ill.
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- Dhaka, Bangladesh – One-year-old Saif Hasan died within minutes of being taken into intensive care at Dhaka’s Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) on August 27.
- The child from the southern Bangladesh district of Shariatpur had developed a fever and rashes days after receiving his first measles-rubella vaccine.
- His family wondered whether the vaccine had made him ill.
Sources: Al Jazeera