LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has begun providing aid to Pennsylvania amid its ongoing measles outbreak. <\/p>\n
A CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officer joined the state’s Department of Health on site Monday to support response efforts, according to a release. <\/p>\n
The officer will collaborate with DOH on projecting case trajectories, estimating total disease prevalence and evaluating local immunization efforts. <\/p>\n
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he’s confident the CDC will help end the outbreak in Pennsylvania, which has reported more cases than any other state. <\/p>\n
PREVIOUS COVERAGE | RFK Jr. says Shapiro politicized measles outbreak, CDC to provide aid to PA<\/a><\/p>\n As of Monday, Pennsylvania has reported <\/a>1,286 total measles cases across 42 counties. The DOH has confirmed five measles-associated deaths and is investigating a potential sixth death<\/a> that was reported in Franklin County. <\/p>\n Pregnancy-related guidance<\/p>\n The DOH also released clinical guidance for pregnant women who become infected with measles and newborns with possible measles. <\/p>\n Getting vaccinated before becoming pregnant is the best way to prevent measles and newborn measles, DOH said. <\/p>\n The MMR vaccine should not be administered during pregnancy, and pregnancy should be avoided for 28 days after receiving the vaccine, according to DOH. <\/p>\n Postpartum mothers who are not immune to measles are urged to receive the vaccine to reduce the risk of exposing their infants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has begun providing aid to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-310212","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\/310212","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=310212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}