{"id":1702,"date":"2026-09-30T01:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T01:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2026-09-30T01:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T01:03:28","slug":"measles-outbreak-surpasses-900-cases-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/09\/30\/measles-outbreak-surpasses-900-cases-in-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles Outbreak Surpasses 900 Cases in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> A growing measles outbreak in Pennsylvania has reached 903 confirmed cases, with infections reported in 39 of the state\u2019s 67 counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest figures from the Pennsylvania Department of Health show that 176 people have been hospitalised and four measles-associated deaths have been recorded this year. Thirteen new cases were reported between September 25 and September 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">International media, including The Associated Press, have reported on the continuing outbreak. State health officials say fewer than 1 percent of confirmed cases were among people who had received the full recommended MMR vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pennsylvania health authorities say two doses of the MMR vaccine provide about 97 percent protection against measles and remain the best way to prevent infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing measles outbreak in Pennsylvania has reached 903 confirmed cases, with infections reported in 39 of the state\u2019s 67 counties. The latest figures from the Pennsylvania Department of Health show that 176 people have been hospitalised and four measles-associated deaths have been recorded this year. Thirteen new cases were reported between September 25 and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,36,29],"tags":[152,469,467,468],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children","category-health","category-world","tag-measles","tag-outbreak","tag-pennsylvania","tag-vaccination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}