Bangladesh's measles inquiry still has no public roster. That was the next fact this paper named when Thursday's account of the probe announcement said Zahed Ur Rahman had accepted an investigation into procurement negligence but had not named the committee members.

Friday's outbreak arithmetic moved. New local reporting kept deaths in the 400-plus range, while TBS had reported the death toll at 424 as of May 10. [1] [2] TBS had already reported the government's promise to form a committee with national experts and international organisations over possible vaccine-negligence questions. [2] Views Bangladesh carried the same pledge: the government would investigate the outbreak, vaccine shortage and the warnings about procurement. [3]

The difference between a probe and a sentence about a probe is a list. Who sits on it? Does WHO, UNICEF or Gavi participate? What are its terms of reference? What deadline does it have? Until those answers are public, the institution being advertised has not yet appeared.

This matters because the mortality story and the accountability story can bury each other. A rising toll pulls attention toward hospitals and late referrals. The missing roster pulls it back to the decision that let routine immunisation fail before the emergency campaign began.

-- PRIYA SHARMA, Delhi