{"id":295724,"date":"2026-09-28T19:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295724\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:08:09","slug":"pennsylvania-measles-cases-top-900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295724\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania measles cases top 900"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania state health officials report 13 additional confirmed measles cases since Friday, bringing the total in the state to 903.<\/p>\n<p>Counties reporting the most cases include Lancaster County (363), Mifflin (106) and Chester (83).<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!T8kV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F053ff348-2f03-4c23-af2b-32e739d6dc8a_1192x672.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\/053ff348-2f03-4c23-af2b-32e739d6dc8a_1192.jpeg\" width=\"1192\" height=\"672\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/053ff348-2f03-4c23-af2b-32e739d6dc8a_1192x672.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:672,&quot;width&quot;:1192,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1197582,&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\/217876533?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F053ff348-2f03-4c23-af2b-32e739d6dc8a_1192x672.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>176 hospitalizations have been recorded and there has been four measles-associated deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials remind the public that measles is very contagious. Measles can cause serious health complications, especially in children younger than 5 years of age. Serious complications include pneumonia and encephalitis.<\/p>\n<p>If you like the reporting on Outbreak News Today, please consider a paid subscription for $5\/month or $30 a year. Help support the cause of this niche journalism. It is appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the best protection against measles remains getting fully vaccinated. The MMR vaccine, administered over two doses, boosts a person\u2019s immune system and provides 97% lifetime protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania state health officials report 13 additional confirmed measles cases since Friday, bringing the total in the state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-295724","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\/295724","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=295724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}