Why Bangladesh is struggling against measles epidemic despite 20m vaccines

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. But Saif, who had been receiving treatment for a pre-existing respiratory illness, was likely infected with measles before the vaccine had time to protect him, Shrebash Paul, a junior consultant at the hospital, said. “The infection then aggravated his underlying condition.