Bangladesh is battling measles. It’s a ‘real warning’ to other nations

INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY

SYLHET, Bangladesh: Bangladesh is battling to contain the world’s worst measles outbreak, a crisis exacerbated by weak data, inadequate outreach and vaccination gaps that experts say offers a warning to other nations about the deadly risk of falling immunization rates. Bangladesh, whose routine vaccination program faltered in 2025, reported 202,000 suspected measles cases – 22,000 of them laboratory-confirmed – since the start of the outbreak in mid-March to October 9, the World Health Organiz