{"id":292599,"date":"2026-09-23T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292599\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:22:07","slug":"measles-outbreak-in-pennsylvania-intensifies-to-at-least-835-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292599\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles outbreak in Pennsylvania intensifies to at least 835 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health authorities in Pennsylvania said Wednesday that an outbreak of measles has grown to 835 cases across 39 counties in the state.<\/p>\n<p>43 new positive cases have been identified since Monday. Over the course of the outbreak, 164 people have been hospitalized and four people have died.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania has stepped up vaccination for MMR in response.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the first three weeks of September 2026, health care providers across Pennsylvania have administered more than 38,000 MMR vaccine doses \u2013 in a typical month, it\u2019s just 25,000,&#8221; Pennsylvania&#8217;s Department of Health said in a statement on the outbreak. &#8220;Getting vaccinated is the best protection against the measles virus; the vaccine is proven 97 percent effective at preventing measles for life after two doses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORY | <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/health\/pennsylvania-reports-first-measles-deaths-in-35-years\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania reports first measles deaths in 35 years<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, officials are warning of other possible exposure to measles in the St. Louis area in Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>The possible exposure took place between Sept. 12 and Sept. 14 at Busch Stadium and at local restaurants and a grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>Two people may also have been involved in measles exposure when they took a train from Missouri to Chicago on August 27.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention says there have been <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/data-research\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3,471 confirmed measles cases<\/a> so far in the U.S. this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health authorities in Pennsylvania said Wednesday that an outbreak of measles has grown to 835 cases across 39&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-292599","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\/292599","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=292599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}