{"id":258581,"date":"2026-08-03T22:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258581\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:02:07","slug":"lehigh-county-reports-first-measles-cases-as-pennsylvania-outbreak-surges-past-170-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258581\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh County reports first measles cases as Pennsylvania outbreak surges past 170 | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH CO., Pa. &#8211; As measles cases in Pennsylvania surge, the Lehigh County is seeing its first few.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/health\/diseases-conditions\/infectious-disease\/measles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PA measles dashboard<\/a>, two cases have been identified in the county.<\/p>\n<p>Over 170 have been reported in the whole state.<\/p>\n<p>Measles is a very contagious disease that can cause a rash, fever, runny nose and cough.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors say the best way to prevent measles is with the MMR vaccine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH CO., Pa. &#8211; As measles cases in Pennsylvania surge, the Lehigh County is seeing its first few.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72239,42687,433,4913,52934,50383,28,30,29,2303],"class_list":["post-258581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-immunization","tag-infectious-disease","tag-lehigh-county","tag-measles","tag-mmr-vaccine","tag-outbreak","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258581","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=258581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}