{"id":297413,"date":"2026-10-01T05:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297413\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:02:24","slug":"pennsylvania-reports-fifth-measles-related-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297413\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania reports fifth measles-related death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A fifth measles-related death occurred in Pennsylvania, which remains one of the nation&#8217;s hot spots for outbreaks of the virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The state Health Department reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that an unvaccinated person in Lancaster County died after testing positive for measles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The number of confirmed measles cases stands at 943 across 39 counties this year. Less than 1% of the cases involved vaccinated people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The department won&#8217;t release any details, in order to protect the privacy of the individual and their family. It&#8217;s providing up-to-date information on cases, hospitalizations, and deaths available on a <a data-ylk=\"slk:measles dashboard;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/health\/diseases-conditions\/infectious-disease\/measles\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">measles dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Health leaders said the best protection against the highly contagious respiratory virus is to get fully vaccinated. The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is available at each of the department&#8217;s <a data-ylk=\"slk:59 state health centers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"http:\/\/health.pa.gov\/shc\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">59 state health centers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Measles can cause serious short- and long-term health problems including pneumonia and brain swelling. It spreads when a person who is infected breathes, coughs, or sneezes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The death announced Wednesday is the third measles-related death in Lancaster County. Authorities said Aug. 25 that <a data-ylk=\"slk:two Lancaster County infants;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/penncapital-star.com\/health\/pennsylvania-reports-nations-first-confirmed-measles-related-deaths-in-2026\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">two Lancaster County infants<\/a> died after exposure to the virus. The others were an 18-year-old from Mifflin County, according to the county coroner, and a 40-year-old Jefferson County woman. All were unvaccinated, the Health Department said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fifth measles-related death occurred in Pennsylvania, which remains one of the nation&#8217;s hot spots for outbreaks of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40889,3685,4913,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-297413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-health-department","tag-lancaster-county","tag-measles","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297413","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=297413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}