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Seven More Children Die of Suspected Measles in Bangladesh

TL;DR

Bd-Pratidin files seven more deaths with measles-like symptoms. Suspected is not laboratory-confirmed.

MSM Perspective

Thursday's health desk files seven suspected. Wednesday already named the world's worst outbreak. Seven is not a new war.

X Perspective

Feeds treat seven more as a new epidemic starting today.

Bangladesh health copy filed seven more children dead with measles-like symptoms in 24 hours. [1] Bd-Pratidin dated the bulletin Thursday. [1] The Daily Star filed seven more dying with measles symptoms. [2] Suspected is not laboratory-confirmed. Print seven suspected. Do not print seven confirmed measles deaths unless a named lab table says so.

Wednesday's Reuters file already named the world's worst ongoing measles outbreak. Thursday is an incremental death clock, not a new epidemic. Do not spend a later 1,030 that belongs to a later edition.

Print seven. Print suspected. Leave a named lab-confirmed death table to the edition that owns a named lab table.
Seven suspected remains an incremental clock, not a laboratory table and not Wednesday's outbreak renamed.
Thursday is not a new outbreak.

-- NORA WHITFIELD, Atlanta

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