Published • loading... • Updated
Pennsylvania reports fourth measles-related death, the most in US in decades
Health officials say all four deaths were in unvaccinated people as Pennsylvania reports nearly 700 cases and the outbreak spreads 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.
Insights by Ground AI
Podcasts & Opinions
239 Articles
239 Articles
Travel & Lifestyle: Pennsylvania Reports Fourth Measles Death As Outbreak Grows
NEW YORK (AP) — Pennsylvania officials have reported a fourth measles-associated death. The latest death involved an 18-year-old resident of Mifflin County, in the center of the state, the county coroner’s office said in a Facebook post. The cause was acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare and severe neurological complication of measles, it said. On Saturday, a 40-year-old woman from Jefferson County, a rural area in western Pennsylvania, …
Pa. Department of Health reports two more measles-associated deaths
The Pa. Department of Health has reported two more measles-associated deaths in Pa. Though deaths from measles are rare, the disease is extremely contagious and can cause pneumonia and brain swelling.
·Indiana, United States
Read Full Article
Coverage Details
Total News Sources239
Leaning Left40Leaning Right19Center115Last UpdatedBias Distribution66% Center
Bias Distribution
- 66% of the sources are Center
66% Center
L 23%
C 66%
11%
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
