{"id":287555,"date":"2026-09-16T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287555\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T20:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:00:10","slug":"over-700-measles-cases-4-measles-associated-deaths-reported-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287555\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 700 measles cases, 4 measles-associated deaths reported in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Pennsylvania has surpassed 700 total measles cases this year, according to the newest data released by the state Department of Health.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday afternoon, there have been 731 total cases across 38 counties. Those cases have led to 141 total hospitalizations and four measles-associated deaths, according to the Department of Health. <\/p>\n<p>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/pennsylvania-department-of-health-announces-two-additional-measles-associated-deaths-mifflin-county-jefferson-county-measles-cases-lancaster-county-september-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mifflin County 18-year-old among two additional &#8216;measles-associated&#8217; deaths in PA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four vaccinated individuals have tested positive for measles, though the Department of Health said this is to be expected. Experts say the MMR vaccine provides 97% lifetime protection. <\/p>\n<p>Below is the full measles dashboard, which is updated Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. <\/p>\n<p>Nationally, there have been 3,294 reported measles cases, according to data released Sept. 11 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Pennsylvania has surpassed 700 total measles cases this year, according to the newest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-287555","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\/287555","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=287555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}