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Pennsylvania Has 693 Measles Cases, 133 Hospitalisations and a Third Death Under Review

The state health department reports 693 confirmed measles cases across 38 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties, with 133 hospitalisations and two confirmed deaths. A third death reported by a county coroner on Sunday is under review. Fewer than one percent of cases were in vaccinated people.

By Cory Chamberlain · 1 hour ago

The Numbers

Fifty Thousand Measles Cases, and the Thousandth Child Has Died

Bangladesh has recorded more than 50,000 confirmed or suspected measles cases this year and child deaths have passed a thousand. Measles is the most contagious disease routinely encountered and one of the most completely preventable, which makes an outbreak of this size a measurement of a delivery system rather than of a virus.

By Thomas Gutierrez · September 9, 2026