News about measles: events, facts and developments on tafs uz.
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The US recorded more than 4,500 measles cases in 2026 — twice as many as a year earlier. A forecast in JAMA suggests endemic measles could return to the US, while the ECDC notes that the risk to Europe depends on local vaccination coverage. This year, Uzbekistan was added to the list of countries where endemic transmission of the virus has been re-established.
Sardor QodirovAn independent committee of experts has warned that the measles epidemic in Bangladesh, which has killed more than 1,200 children, is a sign of a weakening immunization system and a harbinger of outbreaks of other diseases. The Health Ministry has promised to urgently hire vaccinators.
Aziz KarimovAfter a measles case was detected in a student of the Law Faculty of Moscow State University, the university has begun emergency vaccination and anti-epidemic measures. Vaccinations are administered by specialists of City Polyclinic No. 209 and the MSU University Polyclinic. Rospotrebnadzor has identified the circle of contact persons, and Law Faculty students have been switched to distance learning from October 21 to November 3.
Javlon TursunovA case of measles has been detected in one of the students at Moscow State University. The capital's Rospotrebnadzor reported that emergency vaccination is being carried out by City Polyclinic No. 290 and the MSU University Polyclinic. According to the Telegram channel Mash, students of the law faculty have been switched to distance learning until November 3.
Sevara AzamovaA quarantine has been declared at the Law Faculty of Moscow State University due to a detected case of measles: from October 21 to November 3, students will study remotely. According to students, the reason was a medical certificate from a master's student confirming an infectious disease. This is not the first such case at the university.
Javlon TursunovStudents of the Law Faculty of Moscow State University will switch to remote learning from October 21 to November 3 due to a measles case, the Telegram channel Mash reports citing students. According to them, a master's student brought a certificate of an infectious disease to the university. This is already the third case of measles at the university: previously the infection was detected in an employee of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics in May and in a student of the Faculty of Psychology in January.
Sevara AzamovaKun.uz publishes a local digest: in Samarkand region, teenagers from a technical college rented a car, disobeyed a public order officer and ran him over; a balloon caused an accident at the Aksa Toshkent thermal power plant and a temporary power outage in four districts of Tashkent; residents of Navoi and Chirchik will be required to submit annual income declarations as part of an experiment; the Ministry of Health called the measles epidemiological situation stable.
Sevara AzamovaThe Sanitary-Epidemiological Committee of Uzbekistan responded to social media reports about 290 suspected measles cases in Tashkent and more than 10,000 contact persons. The agency clarified that these figures are cumulative indicators for the first nine months of 2026, and measles incidence decreased by 40% compared with the same period of 2025. The epidemiological situation in the country is assessed as stable.
Aziz KarimovBangladeshi authorities reported an increase in measles-related deaths to 1,201 after five more children died. Since mid-March there have been more than 214,000 suspected cases and over 23,000 confirmed ones. More than 20 million children have been vaccinated since April.
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