{"id":277484,"date":"2026-09-02T17:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277484\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:50:10","slug":"cdc-contesting-pa-reported-measles-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277484\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Contesting PA Reported Measles Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The announcement appears to have been premature, and the deaths may even have been altogether fabricated by one of the governor&#8217;s hopeful staffers. The Lancaster County coroner says that it has no record of any measles deaths. State law requires that all measles deaths be reported to the coroner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bogen, said the health department was confident that the infant&#8217;s death was &#8220;measles-associated,&#8221; a term that means there was laboratory or epidemiologic evidence of a measles infection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a pediatrician with more than 30 years of caring for children, I have thoroughly reviewed the case investigation information and sadly can confirm that there were two recent measles-associated deaths in Lancaster County,\u201d Bogen said in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pahealthdept\/status\/2092770788751327619?s=46&amp;t=-DGlDYI6esU-4We1z9gHiQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a statement.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The health department still lists two measles-associated deaths <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/health\/diseases-conditions\/infectious-disease\/measles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on its measles dashboard.<\/a> Overall, there have been 497 confirmed cases of the virus in Pennsylvania this year. <\/p>\n<p>According to the CDC, as of Aug. 30, there were 2,903 confirmed cases of measles confirmed in the United States in 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The announcement appears to have been premature, and the deaths may even have been altogether fabricated by one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-277484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277484","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=277484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}