Pennsylvania reports fourth measles-related death, the most in US in decades
State officials said all four deaths were in unvaccinated people as Pennsylvania reported nearly 700 measles cases across 38 counties.
- On Tuesday, Pennsylvania health officials confirmed two additional measles-associated deaths involving unvaccinated residents of Jefferson County and Mifflin County, raising the state's total to four.
- These fatalities mark the state's first measles-related deaths in three decades amid an outbreak that has sickened nearly 700 people this year, matching the United States' 1992 total of four deaths.
- According to health department criteria, Pennsylvania defines a measles-associated death as occurring within 30 days of symptom onset; the state's previous two deaths involved infants in Lancaster County, where officials disputed one death's cause.
- Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clashed over the outbreak, with Kennedy accusing the state of "fabricating" deaths and Shapiro criticizing Kennedy's "actions and his rhetoric."
- Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Debra Bogen urged residents to utilize the MMR vaccine, which remains 97% effective, as the state attempts to stem the growing outbreak affecting nearly 700 people.
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According to local forensic doctors, the last death victim was an 18-year-old boy, who joined the two babies who were too young to be vaccinated and a 40-year-old man.
According to local forensics, two babies died before they could be vaccinated, as well as an 18-year-old adult and a 40-year-old woman. These deaths add up to three others, including those of two children, registered in the United States in 2025, the year the epidemic began. These deaths have increased the confrontation between Pennsylvania’s governor, Democrat Josh Shapiro, and Donald Trump’s secretary of health, Robert Kennedy Jr., known for h…
Pennsylvania's authorities have confirmed a new measles-related death, resulting in four deaths in that state as the country has been going through an unprecedented epidemic for 35 years.
The health department of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania announced today a fourth measles-related death, at a time when the United States has been experiencing the largest outbreak of vaccine-preventable disease for decades.
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