{"id":2689,"date":"2026-07-16T20:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:10:26","slug":"two-measles-cases-reported-in-chester-county-as-officials-reveal-more-data-on-pa-s-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2689","title":{"rendered":"Two measles cases reported in Chester County as officials reveal more data on Pa.\u2019s outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nineteen people have been hospitalized for measles since April in Pennsylvania, state health officials reported in a new online data dashboard launched this week to track the spread of the highly contagious disease. <\/p>

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Since April, an outbreak centered in Lancaster County has sickened 98 people \u2014 about a third were under 18. <\/p>

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The virus is also circulating in western Chester County, on the border between the Philadelphia area\u2019s suburbs and Lancaster in central Pennsylvania. Chester reported two additional cases this week, bringing its total to six since the outbreak began. <\/p>

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The state has seen 110 cases this year, nearly seven times the caseload in 2025 and the largest case count in three decades. None of the patients sickened this year were fully vaccinated against the disease, state health officials said.<\/p>

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On the new dashboard, officials also highlighted ongoing vaccination efforts in affected counties, noting that this year state health workers have given out more than 600 doses of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine in Lancaster County alone \u2014 more than three times the doses administered there in all of 2025.<\/p>

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