Pennsylvania Reports Third Measles Death This Year as Outbreak Spreads

In Pennsylvania, a preventable disease once declared eliminated from American life has now claimed three lives in a single year — two infants too young to be vaccinated, and a 40-year-old woman whose protection status remains unknown. With 676 confirmed cases spreading across 37 counties and 124 hospitalizations recorded, the state finds itself navigating a public health crisis that reflects something deeper than a single outbreak: the slow erosion of the collective immunity that once held measles at bay. The deaths arrive as a somber reminder that diseases do not forget us simply because we h