More than 1,000 dead in Bangladesh measles outbreak

More than 1,000 people, most of them children, have died in a measles outbreak in Bangladesh, where cases are rising again despite an emergency vaccination campaign.

More than 19.8 million children in the country have already been vaccinated, but some 1,000 new suspected cases are still being reported every day. Unicef told the BBC that on 26 September, the government will move into an "intensified phase" of its campaign to reach Read More....