Pennsylvania's health department has now officially confirmed four measles-associated deaths this year. Two were added on September 15, one in Jefferson County and one in Mifflin County, and both people were unvaccinated.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health also reported 731 confirmed cases across 38 counties, with 141 hospitalizations, in an update issued September 16. That is 38 new cases in two days. Four cases, fewer than 1 percent of the total, occurred in vaccinated people.
