In Pennsylvania, a woman with underlying health conditions has died from measles complications amid a growing outbreak — a death that speaks to one of public health's oldest and most sobering truths: the most vulnerable among us are only as protected as the communities that surround them. Measles, a disease declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, has returned to claim a life in a state where vaccination rates had quietly eroded. Her death arrives at a moment when debates over how government agencies count and communicate disease fatalities have added another layer of uncertainty to a
Pennsylvania measles death underscores vulnerability of immunocompromised populations
One Pennsylvania woman died from measles complications.