{"id":287625,"date":"2026-09-16T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287625\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T22:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:00:16","slug":"pennsylvania-health-department-announces-2-additional-measles-deaths-bringing-total-to-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287625\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania health department announces 2 additional measles deaths, bringing total to 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Department of Health Sept. 15 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/health\/newsroom\/doh-confirms-two-additional-measles-associated-deaths-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> the confirmation of two additional measles-associated deaths, bringing the state\u2019s total to four. The department said both individuals were unvaccinated. The state previously announced two measles-associated deaths on Aug. 25. So far this year, there have been 693 confirmed measles cases across the state. As of Sept. 11, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/data-research\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that 3,294 confirmed measles cases have been reported nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Department of Health Sept. 15 announced the confirmation of two additional measles-associated deaths, bringing the state\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-287625","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\/287625","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=287625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}