(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – This undated image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Feb. 4, 2015, shows an electron microscope image of a measles virus particle. (Cynthia Goldsmith/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, via AP, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lancaster County, PA) A coroner in Pennsylvania confirmed details yesterday about the two measles-related deaths in the state last month which involved infants, and the virus of measles itself caused one of the deaths. 

Dr. Stephen Diamantoni, the coroner of Lancaster County, stated that he told the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of his conclusions.  

According to Diamantoni, one of the infants passed away on August 14th shortly after his birth of a ruptured spleen and Diamantoni told the Associated Press that a measles infection killed the other infant, who was 6 weeks old when she passed away on August 18th at her home.  

The female infant was born with a genetic birth defect which left her highly vulnerable to an infection.  

Neither of them were old enough to be vaccinated because the first dose of vaccination is typically given at around the age of one. 

This development is happening during a growing outbreak of measles in Pennsylvania.