{"id":297451,"date":"2026-10-01T06:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297451\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T06:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:16:18","slug":"5th-measles-related-death-reported-in-pennsylvania-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297451\/","title":{"rendered":"5th measles-related death reported in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Pennsylvania Department of Health says there has now been a fifth <a data-ylk=\"slk:measles;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:\/\/6abc.com\/measles\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">measles<\/a>-related death in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The person who died was an unvaccinated resident of Lancaster County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No further details have been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Pennsylvania health officials urge early measles vaccinations as outbreak grows;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:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/pennsylvania-health-officials-urge-early-measles-vaccinations-outbreak-grows\/19847517\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania health officials urge early measles vaccinations as outbreak grows<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There are now 943 confirmed cases across 39 counties, with 40 new cases since Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">State health officials say 53,000 doses of the MMR vaccine have been given this month, more than double the typical rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For more information about the outbreak, and the vaccine, visit <a data-ylk=\"slk:PA.gov\/Measles;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\">PA.gov\/Measles<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Department of Health says there has now been a fifth measles-related death in the state. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[95422,3685,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-297451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-confirmed-cases","tag-lancaster-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297451","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=297451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}