{"id":856229,"date":"2026-09-22T04:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/856229\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T04:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:50:21","slug":"pennsylvania-measles-cases-near-800-as-outbreak-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/856229\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania measles cases near 800 as outbreak grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sept 21 (Reuters) &#8211; The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 792 measles cases on Monday, 25 \u200cmore than on Friday, as the state&#8217;s \u200coutbreak grew further, remaining at the center of the nation&#8217;s worst \u200bmeasles resurgence in decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here are some more details:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 The state health department confirmed 155 hospitalized measles patients, up from the 150 reported on September 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 Lancaster \u200cCounty has remained \u2060the hardest-hit area in the state throughout the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 Earlier this month, Pennsylvania \u2060reported measles-related deaths among unvaccinated residents, a toll that sparked disagreement between Governor Josh Shapiro and U.S. \u200bHealth Secretary \u200bRobert F. Kennedy Jr. \u200bover how many fatalities \u200cwere directly caused by the virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not yet added Pennsylvania&#8217;s 2026 measles deaths to its national count. The agency has said it is reviewing how it \u200cclassifies such deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 The US \u200bhas recorded 3,471 measles cases \u200bthis year as \u200bof September 17, according to CDC data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 \u200cMeasles, a highly contagious \u200bviral disease, can \u200bcause fever, rash and respiratory complications, but is easily preventable with the measles, mumps and \u200brubella vaccine, a \u200croutine childhood immunization that is 97% effective \u200bafter two doses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Kamal Choudhury in Bengaluru; \u200bEditing by Shilpi Majumdar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept 21 (Reuters) &#8211; The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 792 measles cases on Monday, 25 \u200cmore than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[310134,97,9572,3234,210651],"class_list":["post-856229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-governor-josh-shapiro","tag-health","tag-measles","tag-pennsylvania","tag-state-health-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}