Two measles cases are confirmed in Western Pennsylvania

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – A health worker administers a measles test on Fernando Tarin, of Seagraves, Texas, at a mobile testing site outside Seminole Hospital District, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, in Seminole, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Erie County, PA) It has been confirmed that there are two cases of measles in Western Pennsylvania. According to a report from WICU, health department officials in Erie County confirmed the cases were linked to international travel. According to the CDC, Pennsylvania and seventeen other states have measles cases totaling 378 as of March 20th, 2025 and measles spreads when a person that has it sneezes or coughs.