{"id":306636,"date":"2026-10-14T18:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T18:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306636\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T18:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T18:46:07","slug":"pennsylvania-reports-1222-measles-cases-as-outbreak-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306636\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania reports 1,222 measles cases as outbreak grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 14  \u2014  The Pennsylvania Health Department \u200bon Wednesday reported 1,222 measles cases in \u200cthe state, up 86 cases from \u2060a week \u200bearlier.<\/p>\n<p>Key details \u2060include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Measles-related hospitalizations this \u200cyear stand \u200cat 225, according to state \u2060health \u2060department data<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The state health department has reported five measles-related deaths so far<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The CDC has confirmed \u200ctwo measles-associated \u200bdeaths in 2026, though it has not identified the states involved<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The US has recorded 4,080 measles cases this year as \u200bof October 8, \u200caccording to \u200cCDC \u2060data<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The CDC said on Tuesday it would deploy additional support to Pennsylvania \u200cto help investigate \u200bthe outbreak<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting \u200cby Siddhi \u2060Mahatole \u200bin Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim \u200bZahid)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 14 \u2014 The Pennsylvania Health Department \u200bon Wednesday reported 1,222 measles cases in \u200cthe state, up 86&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2593,2592,2595,2594,296,139,28,30,29,2597,2598,726,2596,1704,2599,1133],"class_list":["post-306636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306636","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=306636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}