{"id":273145,"date":"2026-08-27T09:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273145\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:58:23","slug":"infant-1-of-2-people-reported-to-have-died-from-measles-in-pa-southeastern-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273145\/","title":{"rendered":"Infant 1 of 2 people reported to have died from measles in Pa. | Southeastern Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re learning more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/pennsylvania\/pa-doh-confirms-2-measles-associated-deaths-in-lancaster-county-1st-in-state-in-35\/article_0db3b391-74ec-44cb-b458-1822f4e85b7a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">two measles deaths<\/a> reported in the state earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>State health officials now say one of the victims was an infant from Lancaster County.<\/p>\n<p>Both people who died were unvaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths are the first linked to measles in Pennsylvania in 35 years and come as cases continue to climb across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania has now confirmed more than 400 cases this year, with dozens of people hospitalized due to complications.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials continue to urge families to stay up to date on the MMR vaccine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re learning more about the two measles deaths reported in the state earlier this week. State health officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,3685],"class_list":["post-273145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lancaster-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273145","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=273145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}