{"id":278120,"date":"2026-09-03T11:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278120\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:54:08","slug":"pennsylvania-reports-over-500-measles-cases-as-outbreak-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278120\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania reports over 500 measles cases as outbreak continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Pennsylvania has reported 540 measles cases across 36 counties so far this year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/health\/diseases-conditions\/infectious-disease\/measles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">data <\/a>released Wednesday by the state&#8217;s Department of Health. <\/p>\n<p>About 45% of those cases were reported in Lancaster County, according to the DOH. The state is also reporting two <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/gov-josh-shapiro-says-he-wont-get-into-conspiracy-theories-about-measles-outbreak-pa-pennsylvania-secretary-robert-f-kennedy-jr-rfk-infectious-disease-cdc-doh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;cumulative measles-associated deaths&#8221;<\/a> in the county, though that figure has not been confirmed by the CDC.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/cdc-excludes-two-pa-measles-associated-deaths-from-the-countrys-total-cases-pennsylvania-department-of-health-shapiro-vaccines-outbreak-disease-officials-community-death-count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC excludes two PA measles-associated deaths from U.S. death toll<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall, the DOH has reported 91 hospitalizations as of Wednesday. The state has urged residents to get the MMR vaccine to help combat the outbreak. <\/p>\n<p>Here are the latest numbers for other central Pennsylvania counties: <\/p>\n<p>Adams: 1Berks: 4Cumberland: 1Dauphin: 0Franklin: 2Juniata: 0Lebanon: 21Mifflin: 49Perry: 4York 20<\/p>\n<p>The CDC has reported 2,903 total cases across the U.S. as of Aug. 30. This has already surpassed the total number of cases reported in 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Pennsylvania has reported 540 measles cases across 36 counties so far this year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-278120","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\/278120","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=278120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}