{"id":296692,"date":"2026-09-30T06:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296692\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T06:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:44:10","slug":"pennsylvania-surpasses-900-measles-cases-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296692\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania surpasses 900 measles cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/topic\/measles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">measles outbreak<\/a> plaguing the U.S. appears to be getting worse in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>State health officials are now reporting 903 cases of the virus across 39 counties \u2014 an increase of over a dozen more cases since Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials, however, say less than 1% of those cases \u2014 only four people \u2014 are among those who are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, there have been four measles-related deaths across the commonwealth, all of them among unvaccinated individuals.<\/p>\n<p>State officials are urging people to get the MMR vaccine, which gives 97% lifetime protection against measles after two doses. More than 7,900 doses have been given this year.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms of the virus include fever, cough and runny nose, followed by a rash that starts on the head and spreads down. Anyone exposed to the virus and showing symptoms is advised to call their doctor.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo credit: CDC via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The measles outbreak plaguing the U.S. appears to be getting worse in Pennsylvania. State health officials are now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[139,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-296692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296692","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=296692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}