Around 100 other children have been infected by the disease in three villages in Shialdaha under Sajek union, Rangamati Civil Surgeon Bipash Khisa told bdnews24.com on Thursday. “But the villages are very far away and there is no alternative to walking to reach them,” he said. A similar measles outbreak among the Tripura villages in Chattogram’s Sitakunda claimed the lives of nine children in the span of four days in July, 2017. After the 2014 large-scale measles vaccination, the number of cases declined the next year. The special measles vaccination campaign, which is carried out every four years, was conducted in Bangladesh in 2018.

Source: bd News24 March 19, 2020 20:37 UTC