{"id":308209,"date":"2026-10-16T20:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308209\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:56:08","slug":"measles-outbreak-nears-1300-cases-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308209\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles outbreak nears 1,300 cases in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing measles outbreak in Pennsylvania has reached 1,260 confirmed cases, the Pennsylvania Department of Health <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/health\/diseases-conditions\/infectious-disease\/measles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> Oct. 16. Of those, 238 individuals have been hospitalized. The department lists five confirmed deaths and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/health\/newsroom\/pa-department-of-health-provides-statewide-update-on-measles-out10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Oct. 14 that it is investigating another reported measles-associated death in Franklin County. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/data-research\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> Oct. 16 that there are now 4,410 confirmed measles cases nationwide, with the vaccination status of 96% of cases being unvaccinated or unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ongoing measles outbreak in Pennsylvania has reached 1,260 confirmed cases, the Pennsylvania Department of Health announced Oct.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-308209","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\/308209","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=308209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}