{"id":290253,"date":"2026-09-20T11:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290253\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:56:09","slug":"pennsylvania-measles-update-as-of-september-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290253\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania measles update as of September 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) today announced that 767 measles cases have been confirmed across 38 counties in Pennsylvania so far in 2026 as of September 18.   <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!XCYl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1af7ba5a-48e8-452f-891d-ddf40514e0b7_5000x3500.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/1af7ba5a-48e8-452f-891d-ddf40514e0b7_5000.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"1019\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/1af7ba5a-48e8-452f-891d-ddf40514e0b7_5000x3500.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1019,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:3340183,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/outbreaknewstoday.substack.com\/i\/216565115?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1af7ba5a-48e8-452f-891d-ddf40514e0b7_5000x3500.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Key updates include: <\/p>\n<p>-New Positive Cases (since September 16, 2026): 36 <\/p>\n<p>-Total Counties: 38 <\/p>\n<p>-Total Cumulative Cases: 767 <\/p>\n<p>-Total Hospitalizations: 150 <\/p>\n<p>-Total Confirmed Measles-Associated Deaths: 4 <\/p>\n<p>-Measles cases among vaccinated individuals: 4 (less than 1% of cases)  <\/p>\n<p>Lancaster County reports the most with 324, followed by Mifflin County with 93 and Chester County with 72. <\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania leads the nation in measles this year, followed by South Carolina (671), Utah (519), Texas (192), Virginia (179) and Ohio (178).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) today announced that 767 measles cases have been confirmed across 38 counties&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-290253","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\/290253","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=290253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}