{"id":312978,"date":"2026-10-23T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312978\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:06:09","slug":"pennsylvania-measles-outbreak-2026-by-robert-herriman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312978\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania measles outbreak 2026 &#8211; by Robert Herriman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) today announced that 1,338 measles cases have been confirmed across 44 counties in Pennsylvania so far in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!umgY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F23371a32-490a-4867-94f3-02d790b12a54_1408x768.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/23371a32-490a-4867-94f3-02d790b12a54_1408.jpeg\" width=\"1408\" height=\"768\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/23371a32-490a-4867-94f3-02d790b12a54_1408x768.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:768,&quot;width&quot;:1408,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:605162,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/outbreaknewstoday.substack.com\/i\/221845226?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F23371a32-490a-4867-94f3-02d790b12a54_1408x768.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Key updates include:<\/p>\n<p>Newly Confirmed Cases (since October 21, 2026): 21<\/p>\n<p>Total Counties: 44<\/p>\n<p>Total Cumulative Cases: 1,338<\/p>\n<p>Total Hospitalizations: 255<\/p>\n<p>Total Confirmed Measles-Associated Deaths: 5<\/p>\n<p>Measles cases among vaccinated individuals: 4 (less than 1% of cases)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) today announced that 1,338 measles cases have been confirmed across 44 counties&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-312978","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\/312978","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=312978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}