{"id":305592,"date":"2026-10-13T07:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305592\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T07:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:12:17","slug":"sixth-measles-related-death-reported-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305592\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixth measles-related death reported in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A sixth measles-related death has been reported in Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n

The Franklin County Coroner\u2019s Office said its investigation into the death of a 39-year-old woman found a past diagnosis of measles with treatment.<\/p>\n

They noted she had several other underlying conditions as well.<\/p>\n

The coroner’s office said this is the first measles-associated death in Franklin County “in many years with a patient with a recent history of a measles diagnosis.” They didn’t specify exactly how long it’s been.<\/p>\n

Health officials said Pennsylvania\u2019s current outbreak<\/a> started in April, west of Philadelphia. As of Friday, Oct.9, there have been 1,136 measles cases, including 219 hospitalizations and five deaths<\/a>, two of them infants<\/a>, state officials said. The 39-year-old\u2019s death brings the death total to six. <\/p>\n

Officials said those who suffered measles-related deaths were either unvaccinated or too young to be vaccinated. <\/p>\n

Pennsylvania is dealing with its largest measles outbreak in three decades. <\/p>\n

On Friday, Oxford Area High School in Chester County closed<\/a> because of a confirmed measles case. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A sixth measles-related death has been reported in Pennsylvania. The Franklin County Coroner\u2019s Office…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2682,4913,99116,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-305592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-franklin-county","tag-measles","tag-measles-outbreak","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305592","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=305592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}