{"id":303266,"date":"2026-10-09T18:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303266\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T18:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:50:12","slug":"pennsylvania-school-says-unvaccinated-students-can-not-attend-school-amid-measles-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303266\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania school says unvaccinated students can not attend school amid measles outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHESTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Oxford Area High School in Chester County is closed Friday after a confirmed measles case within its community, according to a letter sent to families. <\/p>\n<p>The district said students who are unvaccinated or who can&#8217;t prove vaccination can&#8217;t attend school or school functions. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you are not vaccinated for measles or can\u2019t prove vaccination, you CAN NOT attend school or school functions and must be quarantined 21 days from school and all school functions,&#8221; Superintendent David A. Woods wrote in the letter. <\/p>\n<p>Woods said the Chester County Health Department has directed the school to verify measles immunity documention for all staff members who work in the high school. <\/p>\n<p>The closure comes after Pennsylvania eclipsed 1,000 confirmed measles cases this year, which is the most of any state in the U.S, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/data-research\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PREVIOUS COVERAGE | <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/measles-cases-approach-1k-as-state-reports-5th-measles-associated-death-pa-pennsylvania-virus-contagious-vaccine-shapiro-cdc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Measles cases hit 1K as state reports 5th &#8216;measles-associated&#8217; death<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday, there have been 86 reported cases in Chester County. Roughly 37% of cases have been reported in Lancaster County, which borders Chester County. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHESTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Oxford Area High School in Chester County is closed Friday after a confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-303266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303266","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=303266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}