A measles outbreak in Pennsylvania is now the largest on record since 1991
Pennsylvania's measles outbreak has passed 1,000 cases, and Ars Technica reports it is the largest on record since 1991. In its latest update, the state's health officials put the 2026 total at 1,078 cases. Among those cases are 207 hospitalizations and five deaths.
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Context
Trend lines from a running outbreak count carry some noise: officials noted that 40 of the 74 cases added in one day's update were from more than two weeks earlier and were only then being recorded.
Pushback
A reporting lag doesn't change the shape of the story. The five deaths all occurred during the current outbreak in people who were unvaccinated, and the two infants were too young to have been vaccinated.