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DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh will inoculate some 33.5 million children in the biggest measles vaccination campaign in history, officials said on Thursday. The three-week campaign, organized along with the United Nations Children's Fund, will help curb a disease that kills about 20,000 children in impoverished Bangladesh every year. "It will be world's biggest measles vaccination campaign," said an UNICEF communication official. Children aged between 9 months and 10 years will be...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A large measles outbreak in Indiana earlier this year shows what can happen when an imported case of measles encounters a group of unvaccinated individuals.This outbreak and the serious cases that arose would not have occurred if long-standing measles vaccination guidelines had been followed, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday in their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.The source of the Indiana outbreak, which...