PENNSYLVANIA (WJAC) \u2014 The CDC recently confirmed the first Measles death of the year, although Pennsylvania health officials have reported four \u2018measles-associated\u2019 deaths as cases across the commonwealth continue to rise.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania’s Department of Health says Measles cases across the state have increased by another 55 infections since the middle of this week.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania leads the nation in cases as the country faces more than 3,400 cases \u2014 reaching a three-decade high.<\/p>\n
In our region, Jefferson County continues to see the most cases with 41 total now reported.<\/p>\n
Statewide, Lancaster County has the most Measles infection with nearly 360 reported cases.<\/p>\n
According to the DOH, 19%, or 173 of the 890 statewide reported cases have resulted in hospitalizations.<\/p>\n
Health officials continue to remind residents that vaccines provide the best protection against getting sick from the highly contagious virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WJAC) \u2014 The CDC recently confirmed the first Measles death of the year, although Pennsylvania health officials…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-294211","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\/294211","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=294211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}