Sept 16 (Reuters) – The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Wednesday reported 731 measles cases, up 38 from Monday’s \u200cupdate, as the outbreak continued to spread in the \u200cstate at the center of the nation’s worst measles resurgence in decades.<\/p>\n
Here are \u200bsome details:<\/p>\n
\u2022 The state health department also confirmed 141 hospitalized measles patients in the update.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Lancaster County continued to bear the brunt of Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak, remaining the state’s worst-affected county as officials \u200cstepped up immunization campaigns \u2060and public health outreach.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The figures were released a day after the health department reported four \u2060measles-related deaths among unvaccinated individuals, marking fresh fatalities in one of the most significant public health crises the country has seen from \u200bmeasles.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The \u200bPennsylvania health department said last \u200bmonth that two residents died \u200cof measles, setting off a dispute between Governor Josh Shapiro and U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has said that only one of the deaths was directly linked to the infection.<\/p>\n
\u2022 In 2026, the U.S. has had 3,294 confirmed measles \u200ccases through September 10, according to \u200bCDC data.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The CDC currently does \u200bnot include the 2026 \u200bdeaths in its measles tally, and its website \u200csays it is reevaluating how it \u200bclassifies measles deaths.<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u200bMeasles, a highly contagious viral disease that can cause fever, rash and respiratory complications, is easily preventable with the \u200bmeasles, mumps and \u200crubella vaccine, or MMR, a routine childhood immunization that is \u200b97% effective after two doses.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Padmanabhan Ananthan in \u200bBengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept 16 (Reuters) – The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Wednesday reported 731 measles cases, up 38 from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4913,28,30,119659,29],"class_list":["post-287569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-measles","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-health-department","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287569","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=287569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}