{"id":277928,"date":"2026-09-03T06:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277928\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T06:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:02:10","slug":"latest-measles-numbers-as-contact-tracing-continues-in-western-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277928\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest measles numbers as contact tracing continues in Western PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following reports of confirmed cases of measles last week at UPMC Children&#8217;s Hospital, contact tracing is ongoing among the hundreds of people who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kdkaradio\/news\/local\/allegheny-county-measles\" data-linked-post=\"2677805326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">visited the facility<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to contact people who came in contact with someone else, either with the virus, from symptoms or exposure,\u201d Dr. Don Yealy tells KDKA Radio\u2019s Marty Griffin.<\/p>\n<p>UPMC&#8217;s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Don Yealy, confirmed Children&#8217;s Hospital has been getting in touch with hundreds of visitors and patients who were in specific rooms or went to certain floors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause if you are in those areas, the possibility of transmission is high,\u201d added Yealy. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Yealy told KDKA&#8217;s Marty Griffin most of the patients testing positive for measles are from counties east of Pittsburgh and the overwhelming majority are unvaccinated. <\/p>\n<p>He also confirmed the Amish are &#8220;represented to a high degree&#8221; in all measles cases in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The latest numbers from the PA Department of Health show a total of 540 cases of measles now recorded in the commonwealth with 119 new cases in the past seven days.<\/p>\n<p>To see what counties in the state are most affected as well as other detailed information on measles transmission visit the state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/health\/diseases-conditions\/infectious-disease\/measles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following reports of confirmed cases of measles last week at UPMC Children&#8217;s Hospital, contact tracing is ongoing among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[76744,4913,73,75,74,1785],"class_list":["post-277928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-amish","tag-measles","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-upmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277928","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=277928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}