{"id":282138,"date":"2026-09-09T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282138\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:50:07","slug":"pennsylvania-measles-cases-soar-to-nearly-600-confirmed-cases-across-37-counties-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282138\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania measles cases soar to nearly 600 confirmed cases across 37 counties: data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 The number of measles cases continues to climb across the Commonwealth, according to an update Tuesday from the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/health\/newsroom\/pa-department-of-health-provides-statewide-update-on-measles-out0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">As of Sept. 8<\/a>, the DOH said there were 594 confirmed cases of measles across 37 counties in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>According to the most recent findings from the DOH, since Sept. 4, there have been 17 new positive cases.<\/p>\n<p>In total, around 17.5% of cases have resulted in hospitalizations, according to data shared by the DOH, and there have been two confirmed &#8220;measles-associated&#8221; deaths.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/pennsylvania-reports-over-500-measles-cases-as-outbreak-continues-lancaster-county-pa-cdc-infectious-disease-mmr-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Previous data released on Sept. 2<\/a> showed 540 reported measles cases across 36 counties, with around 45% of cases reported in Lancaster County.<\/p>\n<p>PREVIOUS | <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/pennsylvania-reports-over-500-measles-cases-as-outbreak-continues-lancaster-county-pa-cdc-infectious-disease-mmr-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pennsylvania reports over 500 measles cases as outbreak continues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By comparison, the CDC had reported more than 2,900 cases across the U.S. as of Aug. 30, eclipsing the total number of cases reported in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As the outbreak continues, the DOH continues to emphasize the importance of vaccination, citing the 97% protection level provided after both doses of the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvanians can stay up to date on confirmed measles cases, hospitalizations, deaths, community transmission, and vaccination efforts on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/health\/diseases-conditions\/infectious-disease\/measles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DOH\u2019s dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 The number of measles cases continues to climb across the Commonwealth, according to an update&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-282138","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\/282138","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=282138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}