{"id":293995,"date":"2026-09-25T20:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293995\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T20:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:52:07","slug":"pennsylvania-approaches-900-measles-cases-across-39-counties-department-of-health-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293995\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania approaches 900 measles cases across 39 counties, Department of Health says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The Pennsylvania Department of Health has reported 890 total measles cases across 39 counties this year, according to new data released Friday. <\/p>\n<p>This is an increase in 55 cases since Wednesday, the Department of Health said. The state has reported 173 total hospitalizations and four measles-associated deaths. <\/p>\n<p>Roughly 40% of the cases have been reported in Lancaster County, according to DOH. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC), Pennsylvania has the most total cases in the country. <\/p>\n<p>The CDC said it&#8217;s only confirmed one measles death this year, though a spokesperson was unable to confirm which state the death was reported in. <\/p>\n<p>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/835-measles-cases-confirmed-across-39-pa-counties-department-of-health-pennsylvania-health-vaccinations-hospitalized-doses-administered-local-impact-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">835 measles cases confirmed across 39 PA counties: Department of Health<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The Pennsylvania Department of Health has reported 890 total measles cases across 39&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-293995","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\/293995","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=293995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}