{"id":305200,"date":"2026-10-12T18:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305200\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:02:09","slug":"pennsylvania-reports-sixth-measles-related-death-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305200\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania reports sixth measles-related death of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791828129_475_4a0a8774-983a-4c94-a3b0-d2630c50cec6_1653489233.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Raquel Ciampi\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Pennsylvania has reported its sixth measles-associated death of the year, according to state officials.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The latest case involves a 39-year-old woman from Franklin County.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The county coroner said the woman had several underlying health conditions, including a previous measles diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The Franklin County Coroner&#8217;s Office will not release additional details that could identify the woman who died. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">&#8220;Our office is bound by laws that limit what can be shared publicly, and families deserve the dignity to mourn in private,&#8221; the release from the coroner&#8217;s office said. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Pennsylvania has now reported more than 1,100 cases linked to the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Measles in Western Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">Last week, Allegheny County confirmed its second measles case. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">The Allegheny County Health Department confirmed on Friday that the second person does not live in the same house as the first minor who tested positive for the disease.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">The ACHD confirmed both were students that went to the same school in the North Hills. The department previously told Pittsburgh&#8217;s Action News 4 there were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/pennsylvania-measles-allegheny-county-target-exposure\/74040205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">no school exposures in relation to the first case.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania has reported its sixth measles-associated death of the year, according to state officials. The latest case involves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42051,125246,116093,900,894,3643,112097,4814,2682,125245,40889,50284,4913,114927,114536,27826,2008,50383,28,30,29,73,125254,125249,125248,125247,125251,11987,125253,125250,1419,125252,2184,78],"class_list":["post-305200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-42051","tag-100-cases","tag-achd","tag-action-news","tag-allegheny-county","tag-case","tag-coroner-report","tag-department","tag-franklin-county","tag-franklin-county-coroner","tag-health-department","tag-measle","tag-measles","tag-measles-death","tag-measles-associated-death","tag-north-hills","tag-office","tag-outbreak","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-rifi-contentwindowe-sourcevar","tag-school-exposures","tag-second-case","tag-sixth-death","tag-sixth-measles-related-death","tag-state-officials","tag-t-document-queryselectoralliframeforvar-n","tag-underlying-health-conditions","tag-western-pennsylvania","tag-western-pennsylvania-last-week","tag-woman","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305200","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=305200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}