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More than 500 people have died in Bangladesh measles outbreak

NPR | By Gabrielle Emanuel

Published May 28, 2026 at 4:48 AM EDT

Bangladesh is scrambling to vaccinate more children amid a measles outbreak that has killed more than 500 people, most of them children.

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