{"id":297629,"date":"2026-10-01T14:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297629\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:12:17","slug":"pa-measles-death-toll-rises-to-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297629\/","title":{"rendered":"PA Measles Death Toll Rises To 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According the CDC dashboard, last updated on Sept. 25, more measles cases have been confirmed in Pennsylvania than in any other state this year. South Carolina had the second-largest number of cases with 670.<\/p>\n<p>The health department continues to remind people that the best protection against measles is being fully vaccinated. The MMR vaccine, administered over two doses, boosts a person\u2019s immune system and provides 97 percent lifetime protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According the CDC dashboard, last updated on Sept. 25, more measles cases have been confirmed in Pennsylvania than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-297629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297629","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=297629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}