Pennsylvania nears 1,000 measles cases, state health department reports

Nearly a thousand cases of a disease we declared finished, and the vaccine was free the whole time.

Pennsylvania’s reported measles cases are almost at 1,000 for 2026, days after its health department confirmed the figure had passed 900. “977 measles cases have been confirmed across 39 counties in Pennsylvania so far in 2026,” Pennsylvania’s Department of Health wrote in a statement Friday. The agency highlighted that 34 new Pennsylvania measles cases had…

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