Sept 28 (Reuters) – Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak continued to worsen, with 68 new infections reported since Wednesday \u200clast week, bringing the total to 903 on \u200cMonday, health department data showed, as the state grapples with the \u200bworst measles resurgence in decades.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 According to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, 176 measles patients had been hospitalized, up from 164 reported on September 23<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u200cLancaster County, with the \u2060highest number of cases, remains the hardest-hit area in the state<\/p>\n
\u2022 Pennsylvania reported four \u2060measles-related deaths among unvaccinated residents earlier this month, sparking a disagreement between Governor Josh Shapiro and US Health Secretary \u200bRobert F. \u200bKennedy Jr. over how \u200bmany of the fatalities \u200cwere directly caused by the virus<\/p>\n
\u2022 Soon after, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was reviewing how it classifies measles-related deaths<\/p>\n
\u2022 The CDC’s website now lists one verified measles death but did not confirm \u200cwhere the death had occurred<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u200bThe US has recorded 3,659 measles \u200bcases this year \u200bas of September 24, according to CDC \u200cdata<\/p>\n
\u2022 Measles is a highly \u200bcontagious viral disease \u200bthat can cause fever, rash and respiratory complications, but can be easily prevented with the measles, mumps \u200band rubella \u200cvaccine \u2014 a routine childhood immunization that provides 97% \u200bprotection after two doses<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Christy Santhosh in \u200bBengaluru; Editing by Diti Pujara)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept 28 (Reuters) – Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak continued to worsen, with 68 new infections reported since Wednesday \u200clast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4913,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-295738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-measles","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295738","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=295738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}