
Health officials acknowledge vaccination drive failures as outbreak becomes the deadliest in decades
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Measles is a highly contagious disease with no specific treatment, posing severe risks including brain swelling and breathing problems to young children.
The death toll from measles in Bangladesh topped 1,000 children since March, health officials said on Wednesday, admitting that failures in a vaccination drive could have fuelled the outbreak.
The South Asian nation of 170 million has recorded 1,002 deaths and 187,484 infections among children, making this year’s outbreak the country’s deadliest in decades, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Measles is highly contagious, spreading through coughs and sneezes, and has no specific treatment once caught.
Complications can include brain swelling and severe breathing problems. Although anyone can catch the disease, young children are particularly vulnerable.
The disease has kept spreading in Bangladesh even as health authorities rolled out a mass vaccination drive to combat the outbreak.
DGHS spokesman Zahid Raihan said more than 18 million children had been vaccinated so far, and teams were searching for those who had missed inoculations.
my country's first stem cell drug approved for marketing, Amymetose Injection, officially landed in Yinchuan Suyin Industrial Park. The drug is suitable for the treatment of acute graft-versus-host disease. This launch will provide patients in Ningxia and northwest regions with more convenient treatment options and promote the development of the local biomedical industry.

A 35-year-old engineer often slept for more than 12 hours on weekends, resulting in a decline in his kidney function index. Physician Hong Yongxiang reminds that sleeping too long may reflect poor sleep quality or chronic inflammation, and not drinking water for a long time will increase the burden on the kidneys. It is recommended to maintain 6 to 8 hours of sleep every day, and catch up on holiday sleep for no more than 1 hour.

Eighty-seven students at Chengyuen High School in Taipei City developed diarrhea symptoms after eating on-campus meals on the 8th. The Health Bureau has ordered the hot food department to close. Councilor Jian Shupei pointed out that the vendors involved provided meals to more than 15,000 students in nine schools, questioned the city government’s failure to take preventive measures to stop supply, and demanded a comprehensive investigation.

A suspected food poisoning incident occurred at Chengyuan High School in Taipei City. The Taipei City Education Bureau and the Health Bureau sent personnel to the school today to interview and inspect the hot food department and lunch box manufacturers. At the same time, the inspection of the hot food departments of the middle and middle schools of seven complete middle schools in the city was expanded. Among them, the supplier of the middle and middle schools of Datong High School was ordered to make improvements within a time limit due to four hygiene deficiencies.

The Sleep Medicine Center of National Cheng Kung University Hospital integrates 9 specialties and 15 attending physicians. It recently cooperated with the Department of Engineering of National Cheng Kung University to develop a home sleep detection wearable device. This self-paid device allows patients to perform tests in a familiar environment, solves the problem of long queues for sleep examinations or bed recognition in hospitals, and provides integrated care.

A 39-year-old Ms. Lin suffered from a rare giant choroidal melanoma, which occupied half of her eyeball. The Taipei Wing General Ophthalmology Team successfully removed the malignant tumor and preserved the eyeball through a difficult posterior lamellar scleral uveectomy. The patient's visual acuity improved to 0.8 after the operation.