{"id":306092,"date":"2026-10-14T00:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306092\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T00:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:10:11","slug":"health-officials-investigating-reported-measles-related-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306092\/","title":{"rendered":"Health officials investigating reported measles-related death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/ee3b9e0b-c62f-4d02-923c-95c976d19fe9\" aria-label=\"Tasmin Mahfuz profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791936611_719_ee3b9e0b-c62f-4d02-923c-95c976d19fe9_1718896865.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Tasmin Mahfuz\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The Pennsylvania Department of Health is investigating a reported measles-associated death announced by the Franklin County Coroner on Tuesday. Officials said they will provide an update after completing their review.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The Franklin County Coroner stated that a 39-year-old woman died on Saturday and had several underlying health conditions, including a past measles diagnosis.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">If confirmed, her death would be the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/pa-measles-associated-death-franklin-county-woman\/74107317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> sixth measles-related fatality<\/a> in Pennsylvania this year.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The state is expected to update its measles case count Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Below: Measles map<\/p>\n<p>This content is imported from infogram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 The Pennsylvania Department of Health is investigating a reported measles-associated death announced by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[125567,123762,111,2682,125245,125573,114618,88653,116973,50285,4913,125570,114927,125572,122866,125566,125568,28,13432,24528,30,99119,29,2303,125565,7063,125576,125569,125575,125574,101949,108,125250,2583,125571,2812,78],"class_list":["post-306092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-39-year-old-woman","tag-county-cases","tag-death","tag-franklin-county","tag-franklin-county-coroner","tag-franklin-county-woman","tag-health-official","tag-health-officials","tag-https-infogram-com-pa-measles-cases-by-county-1h0n25ox77yrz4p","tag-measle-case","tag-measles","tag-measles-case-count","tag-measles-death","tag-measles-map","tag-measles-related-death","tag-measles-related-fatality","tag-past-measles-diagnosis","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-department","tag-pennsylvania-department-of-health","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-health","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-public-health","tag-reported-death","tag-saturday","tag-several-underlying-health-condition","tag-sixth-fatality","tag-sixth-measles-related-fatality","tag-state-measle-investigation","tag-state-update","tag-tuesday","tag-underlying-health-conditions","tag-wednesday","tag-wednesday-update","tag-wgal","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306092","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=306092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}