Market impact: Why Bangladesh is struggling against measles epidemic despite 20m vaccines

Severity: none Alert worthy: false

Summary

A measles epidemic in Bangladesh has resulted in over 1,000 deaths in six months despite widespread vaccination efforts. This event is a serious public health crisis for Bangladesh.

Impacts

None identified.

Caveats

• While a severe humanitarian crisis locally, this event does not present a clear or significant physical path to global energy, grains, metals, freight, major FX, or equity beta markets.