{
  "id": 3360925,
  "title": "First two U.S. measles outbreak victims of 2026 were unvaccinated, Pennsylvania officials say",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/first-two-u-s-measles-outbreak-victims-of-2026-were-unvaccinated",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-25T22:01:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "National Post",
    "slug": "national-post",
    "url": "https://nationalpost.com/news/u-s-measles-outbreak-two-deaths-unvaccinated-pennsylvania"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Two unvaccinated people in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, have died from measles, marking the first measles-related deaths in the United States this year, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The deaths are also the first measles fatalities in Pennsylvania in 35 years.\n\nThe individuals who died were residents of Lancaster County, but their identities and further details have not been released by the Department of Health to protect their privacy.\n\nThere have been 393 confirmed cases of measles in Pennsylvania this year, across 28 counties. Nationwide, there have been 2,813 cases reported so far this year, according to the Johns Hopkins U.S. Measles Tracker, already exceeding the total number of measles cases reported in 2025, which was 2,289.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}