{"id":275906,"date":"2026-08-31T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275906\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:32:10","slug":"upmc-says-three-measles-cases-confirmed-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275906\/","title":{"rendered":"UPMC says three measles cases confirmed last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPMC confirms three measles cases were confirmed at Children&#8217;s Hospital last week and another give possible cases with test results pending. <\/p>\n<p>It is not known where the children live, but UPMC does say none of them are hospitalized. Patients from other counties comes into Allegheny to get tested for the disease.<\/p>\n<p>According to the state Health Department\u2019s last update, there are ZERO cases of measles in Allegheny County on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/health\/diseases-conditions\/infectious-disease\/measles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>New data will be released on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected none of the patients received the MMR vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have people that are not immunized and it is a very communicable disease, it will spread, especially in a community of people that are not immunized,\u201d Dr. Kevin Wong told KDKA Radio\u2019s Marty Griffin.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kevin Wong specializes in family medicine. <\/p>\n<p>With schools back in session concerned parents can find out the percentage of students who&#8217;ve been vaccinated at their children&#8217;s school.<\/p>\n<p>Measles is 12 times more contagious than the flu and twice as contagious as COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Unless a student has a \u201cmedical or religious\/philosophical exemption\u201d, they must be vaccinated for certain diseases, including measles. <\/p>\n<p>Get information on the Measles, Mumps, Rubella vaccine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/health\/diseases-conditions\/infectious-disease\/measles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPMC confirms three measles cases were confirmed at Children&#8217;s Hospital last week and another give possible cases with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4913,115739,73,75,74,1785,16410],"class_list":["post-275906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-measles","tag-measles-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-upmc","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275906","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=275906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}