As a historic measles outbreak hits Pennsylvania Amish country, more show openness to vaccines
State officials say the outbreak has led to 283 hospitalizations and intensified vaccine outreach in Plain communities as cases spread across 45 counties.
- Pennsylvania health officials confirmed the state's sixth measles-associated death on Wednesday, as cumulative cases reached 1,467 across 45 counties with 283 hospitalizations.
- The latest fatality involved an unvaccinated Jefferson County resident, marking the second death in that county where officials have now documented two of the state's six confirmed deaths.
- Providers statewide administered more than 61,000 vaccine doses in October, far exceeding the typical monthly average of about 25,000, while staff operated 241 pop-up clinics since late April.
- Disputes persist over a reported seventh death in Franklin County; the Department stated its "thorough investigation" has not found cases there meeting the state's measles-associated death criteria.
- Nationally, the outbreak represents the largest in recent U.S. memory with more than 4,800 confirmed cases, while New York reported its first measles-associated death in 30 years on Monday.
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Sixth measles-associated death recorded in Pennsylvania, health officials confirm
Pennsylvania recorded its sixth measles death of the year this week, as the number of confirmed infections this year approached 1,500 people, all but five of whom were unvaccinated, state health officials said.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health, the current epicenter of the measles outbreak in the United States, confirmed, on Wednesday, the sixth death associated with the virus in the state this year. This week, New York also said that it had recorded a death, of a seven-month-old still unvaccinated baby, the first one for the disease in 30 years in the state. With this, there are at least seven deaths in 2026 in the United States. Read the intervi…
As of 29 October, 4,852 confirmed cases of this serious and contagious disease had been counted in the country, already more than twice as many as in 2025. Between 2020 and 2024, the number of cases did not exceed a few tens or hundreds.
Pennsylvania Confirms 6th Measles-Associated Death
The Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed on Nov. 4 that an unvaccinated resident of Jefferson County died after testing positive for measles, marking the sixth confirmed measles-associated death in Pennsylvania. The death has been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for federal review and added to the state’s measles dashboard, the department said. So far in 2026, there have been 1,467 confirmed cases across the st…
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