{"id":303312,"date":"2026-10-09T20:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303312\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T20:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:26:09","slug":"pennsylvania-measles-outbreak-grows-as-nation-surpasses-4000-confirmed-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303312\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania measles outbreak grows as nation surpasses 4,000 confirmed cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are now 1,136 confirmed measles cases in Pennsylvania this year amid the state\u2019s outbreak, the Pennsylvania Department of Health <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/health\/diseases-conditions\/infectious-disease\/measles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> Oct. 9. Of those, 219 individuals have been hospitalized and five people have died. Nationally, there have been 4,080 confirmed cases of measles this year, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/data-research\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest update<\/a>\u00a0by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those, the vaccination status of 95% of cases is unvaccinated or unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are now 1,136 confirmed measles cases in Pennsylvania this year amid the state\u2019s outbreak, the Pennsylvania Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-303312","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\/303312","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=303312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}