{"id":286775,"date":"2026-09-15T22:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T22:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286775\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T22:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T22:02:07","slug":"pa-measles-death-toll-rises-to-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286775\/","title":{"rendered":"PA Measles Death Toll Rises To 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deaths follows two <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/pittsburgh\/2-measles-deaths-reported-pa-details-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">measles-associated deaths<\/a> in Lancaster County last month reported by the state last month, the first connected to the virus in the state in 35 years.<\/p>\n<p>To determine that the latest cases met the criteria to be considered measles-associated deaths prior to announcing them, the health department DOH conducted investigations with cooperation from the Jefferson and Mifflin County coroner\u2019s offices. The inquires included confirming clinical evidence of a measles infection, a positive laboratory test, and that the death was not due to an unrelated cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deaths follows two measles-associated deaths in Lancaster County last month reported by the state last month, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-286775","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\/286775","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=286775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}