{"id":239937,"date":"2026-07-10T04:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239937\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T04:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:30:07","slug":"measles-cases-surpass-100-in-pa-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239937\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles cases surpass 100 in Pa. | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2013 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/health\/diseases-conditions\/infectious-disease\/measles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pennsylvania health officials<\/a> say there have been more than 100 measles cases in the state this year so far.<\/p>\n<p>Since late April, those cases have included three in Berks County and four in Chester County.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the cases are in Lancaster and Lebanon counties.<\/p>\n<p>Measles is a very contagious viral infection. It spreads through the air, often from an infected person\u2019s cough or sneeze.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms include a high fever, cough, runny nose and rash. They usually appear in seven to 14 days of being exposed, but they could take up to 21 days.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials say vaccines provide the best protection against getting sick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2013 Pennsylvania health officials say there have been more than 100 measles cases in the state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4913,28,30,29,7618],"class_list":["post-239937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-measles","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}