{"id":260939,"date":"2026-08-07T11:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260939\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:04:22","slug":"pennsylvania-measles-cases-climb-to-202-two-new-local-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260939\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Measles Cases Climb to 202, Two New Local Cases |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/measles.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-618826\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/measles-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">HARRISBURG \u2014 Pennsylvania has confirmed 202measles cases this year, including 35 reported during the past week. State health officials say none of those infected were fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Northumberland County has six confirmed cases, while Snyder County has one. Lancaster County remains the center of the outbreak with 63 cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Thirty-three patients have been hospitalized, and no measles-related deaths have been reported. The state updates its online measles dashboard three times each week.<\/p>\n<p>Measles spreads through the air and can remain infectious for up to two hours. Two MMR vaccine doses provide about 97-percent protection, according to health officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG \u2014 Pennsylvania has confirmed 202measles cases this year, including 35 reported during the past week. State health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-260939","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\/260939","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=260939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}