{"id":314909,"date":"2026-10-27T00:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T00:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314909\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T00:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T00:12:21","slug":"pennsylvania-department-of-health-reports-73-new-measles-cases-last-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314909\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Department of Health reports 73 new measles cases last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Pennsylvania Department of Health provided an update on the commonwealth&#8217;s measles outbreak on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There have been 73 new cases reported in the last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Pennsylvania Department of Health issues measles alert for pregnant women;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/pennsylvania-department-health-issues-measles-alert-pregnant-women\/19966284\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania Department of Health issues measles alert for pregnant women<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That brings the state total to 1,360 cases reported so far this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Over 250 people have been hospitalized, and five people have died from measles complications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Health officials say getting vaccinated remains the best protection against the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Department of Health provided an update on the commonwealth&#8217;s measles outbreak on Monday. There have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-314909","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\/314909","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=314909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}