{"id":305378,"date":"2026-10-13T00:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305378\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T00:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:02:13","slug":"pennsylvania-reports-6th-measles-associated-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305378\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania reports 6th measles-associated death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania has now seen a sixth measles associated death in the state in Franklin County.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Franklin County Coroner\u2019s Office, a 39-year-old woman who had multiple underlying health conditions, including a previous measles infection that was treated is the latest case.<\/p>\n<p>This meets the definition set forth by the Pennsylvania Department of Health for a measles-associated death.<\/p>\n<p>The six deaths have been reported from the following four counties: Lancaster County &#8211; 3 deaths (including two infants), Mifflin County (1), Jefferson County (1) and Franklin County (1).<\/p>\n<p>As of October 9, Pennsylvania health officials have reported 1,136 confirmed measles cases, the most in the country.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!bwJ1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F39df3d0f-2620-4916-b104-e181667fa731_600x787.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/39df3d0f-2620-4916-b104-e181667fa731_600x.jpeg\" width=\"600\" height=\"787\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/39df3d0f-2620-4916-b104-e181667fa731_600x787.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:787,&quot;width&quot;:600,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:273066,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/outbreaknewstoday.substack.com\/i\/220105354?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F39df3d0f-2620-4916-b104-e181667fa731_600x787.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania has now seen a sixth measles associated death in the state in Franklin County. According to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-305378","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\/305378","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=305378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}