22+ hour, 13+ min ago   (211+ words) Bangladesh has recorded three more deaths among people with measles symptoms in a 24-hour period. The Directorate General of Health Services said 63 people tested positive for measles during the same period, bdnews24.com reports. Two deaths were reported in Dhaka Division…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1443+ words) For some children, measles arrives before they are old enough for their first routine vaccine. For others, it comes after they have moved beyond the age covered by the emergency campaign. That gap is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore as…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (580+ words) When hijacked planes brought down the World Trade Centre's twin towers on Sept 11, 2001, roughly 25,000 children were living or attending school nearby in lower Manhattan, and thousands more were in surrounding neighbourhoods. Some were infants and toddlers, while others were still…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (300+ words) Thursday • 10 September 2026 Sep 10, 2026, 06:03 Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md. Sakhawat Husain said today (Thursday) a nationwide special measles vaccination campaign will begin on September 25. "From September 25, a large-scale measles vaccination campaign will be launched again across the country," he…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (905+ words) Bangladesh, which once came close to eliminating measles, is facing its worst outbreak on record, with more than 1000 suspected and confirmed measles-related deaths reported since March as hospitals struggle with overcrowding, shortages and a continuing influx of sick children. The…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (474+ words) Bangladesh's dengue outbreak is accelerating, with 42,590 people hospitalised and 117 deaths recorded this year, as a sharp September surge strains hospitals and raises fears the mosquito-borne disease could intensify further in the coming weeks. At least four dengue patients died and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1666+ words) As people struggle through another spell of punishing heat, Shila spends about 10 hours a day cooking in other people’s homes. The heat of late summer is oppressive enough. Standing over a stove makes it worse. But stopping work is not…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (199+ words) At least 15 infants were killed when a fire broke out at a state-run hospital in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, triggered by a fault in air conditioning systems, local broadcaster Geo TV reported on Wednesday. The blaze started around 7am (0200 GMT) at the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (394+ words) More than 2,500 people have now died in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak, which is spreading exponentially in an area larger than France, senior United Nations Ebola coordinator Julien Harneis said on Friday. Speaking on a video call from…...