LAS VEGAS \u2014 A fourth death has been linked to measles in Pennsylvania and a UNLV doctor is sounding the alarm.<\/p>\n
All four deaths have been reported in the last month<\/a> as Pennsylvania\u2019s measles outbreak continues to grow. They are the first deaths associated with measles in the state in 35 years.<\/p>\n In all of last year, the U.S. recorded three measles deaths.<\/p>\n PREVIOUSLY: Pennsylvania reports fourth measles-related death as outbreak nears 700 cases<\/a><\/p>\n The Health Department said in a news release Tuesday<\/a> that the two people who died most recently were both unvaccinated.<\/p>\n Dr. Marc Kahn<\/a>, professor and chief of hematology at UNLV’s Department of Internal Medicine<\/a> at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine<\/a>, joined ARC Las Vegas<\/a> and Evan Schreiber<\/a> to explain how you can protect yourself and your family in the most safe and effective way possible with the MMR vaccine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 A fourth death has been linked to measles in Pennsylvania and a UNLV doctor is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-288287","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\/288287","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=288287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}