{"id":255019,"date":"2026-07-29T22:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255019\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T22:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:37:09","slug":"doh-measles-case-reported-in-bedford-county-bringing-pennsylvania-total-to-158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255019\/","title":{"rendered":"DOH: Measles case reported in Bedford County, bringing Pennsylvania total to 158"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEDFORD COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) \u2014 A measles case has been reported in the region, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, which said it is a single case in Bedford County.<\/p>\n<p>No further details about the patient or potential exposures were immediately provided.<\/p>\n<p>Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable virus that spreads through the air and can cause serious illness.<\/p>\n<p>The Bedford County case brings Pennsylvania\u2019s total reported measles cases to 158. The state\u2019s tally includes 28 patients hospitalized and 37 cases reported in the past week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEDFORD COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) \u2014 A measles case has been reported in the region, according to the Pennsylvania&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-255019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255019","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=255019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}