Pennsylvania Measles Outbreak: Two Unvaccinated Residents Die, Highlighting Vaccine Declin
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Published Two people who were not vaccinated against measles have died of the virus in Pennsylvania, health officials said.
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NBC NewsThe department announced Tuesday that two unvaccinated residents had died of measles, the first measles-related deaths in the U.S. this year and the first in Pennsylvania in 35 years.
PBS NewsHourNews Wrap: 2 unvaccinated people die from measles in Pennsylvania In our news wrap Tuesday, two unvaccinated people in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, have died from measles, the Trump administration is threatening to demolish the Kennedy Center if its plans to renovate the arts center are not allowed to proceed and a federal judge rejected a bid by Ghislaine Maxwell to throw out her 2021 conviction on sex-trafficking charges.
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Both measles deaths in Pennsylvania were residents of Lancaster County, where the share of kids who have gotten the MMR vaccine fell from 95.5% in 2017 to 87.6% in 2025.
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BBC NewsEighty-five percent of kindergarten-age students in Lancaster County, where the recent deaths occurred, are vaccinated against measles - well below the 95% rate needed for herd immunity to limit the spread and protect immunocompromised people.
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In places where infants have a high risk of measles exposure, health authorities sometimes recommend an early dose of the vaccine for babies starting at 6 months old. That was the case during an outbreak in Texas last year, in which two unvaccinated girls died of the disease.
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BBC NewsLast year, two unvaccinated children in Texas died from a measles outbreak that infected over 1,000 people, primarily children.
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RFK Jr. responds to Shapiro over measles-related deaths Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shot back at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) on social media after the governor blamed him and the Trump administration for playing a part in the measles outbreaks that led to two deaths in his state. Pennsylvania on Tuesday confirmed two deaths in unvaccinated individuals…
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BreitbartHealth and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being scapegoated for two measles deaths in Pennsylvania when everyone knows the liars in the corporate media (especially CNN) and the disgraced Dr. Anthony Fauci are to blame for this.
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01 NBC News On Wednesday, the department said one of those deaths was under investigation by the Lancaster County Coroner, which had stated that it was reviewing an infant death with a positive measles test.
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02 Breitbart “His actions and the rhetoric that’s coming from this administration are having a negative impact on communities across America, particularly right here in Pennsylvania,” Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) said that same day. “Sharing conspiracy theories and misinformation does not help the cause of public health—and it leaves people less healthy and less safe, and it leaves parents in a position where it’s harder for us to do our jobs to protect our children.”
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03 Washington Times A 22-year-old man fatally shot by police in Pennsylvania as they responded to a possible burglary was a kind-hearted college student who mistakenly went to the wrong home after celebrating a friend’s birthday, his father said Wednesday.
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04 BBC News "Because measles was largely eliminated in the Commonwealth for more than three decades, people are not familiar with this disease and don't fully understand the potential severity of the illness."
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