Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Why the CDC is excluding measles deaths in Pennsylvania even as outbreak appears to be ‘accelerating’

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Source: theguardian.com

<p>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refuses to count four measles deaths in the state though doctors are ‘seeing new forms’ of disease</p><p>The US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its measles dashboard on Friday – but it’s still not counting four measles deaths in Pennsylvania, where the outbreak appears to be accelerating and cases are appearing in ways providers have never seen before.</p><p>Members of Congress on Monday <a href="https://democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026.9.14-letter-to-cdc-dir-schwartz-on-measles.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">requested</a> an “immediate briefing” on the decision to change how measles deaths are reported as cases continue to rise throughout the United States, reaching levels not seen in decades. A possible measles exposure was <a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/measles-exposure-childrens-hospital-of-philadelphia-chop-nicu/4465182/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">reported</a> in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia last week.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/22/cdc-pennsylvania-measles-death-outbreak" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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