{"id":271171,"date":"2026-08-24T11:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271171\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T11:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:56:06","slug":"pennsylvania-measles-cases-climb-to-379","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271171\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Measles Cases Climb To 379 |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PA-Department-of-Health-Dashboard-as-of-8-24.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-627282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PA-Department-of-Health-Dashboard-as-of-8-24-300x163.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\"  \/><\/a>HARRISBURG \u2014 Pennsylvania\u2019s measles outbreak continues growing.<\/p>\n<p>The PA Department of Health says there are now 379 cases of measles reported statewide. They say 70 people have been hospitalized, while about one-third of cases involve people under 18.\u00a0 Lancaster County continues leading Pennsylvania with 181 cases.<\/p>\n<p>Mifflin County has 25, while Snyder County added a new case, bringing its total to 13. Northumberland County has seven cases; Perry County has four and Dauphin County has three. Clinton, Columbia, Lycoming and Union counties each have one case.<\/p>\n<p>No measles-related deaths have been reported in Pennsylvania.\u00a0 The state says measles is very contagious, can cause serious health complications, especially in children younger than 5 years of age. Serious complications include pneumonia and encephalitis and can be fatal. The state says vaccination prevents measles spread.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG \u2014 Pennsylvania\u2019s measles outbreak continues growing. The PA Department of Health says there are now 379 cases&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-271171","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\/271171","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=271171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}