(File Photo: Source for Photo: 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

(Harrisburg, PA) The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) confirmed on Wednesday that an unvaccinated resident of Jefferson County tested positive for measles and has died.  

This is the sixth confirmed measles-associated death in Pennsylvania in 2026.

That death was reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and it was added to the state of Pennsylvania’s measles dashboard, which you can access by clicking here. 

These people that passed away from the six measles-associated deaths in the state of Pennsylvania were two residents from Jefferson County, three residents from Lancaster County and one resident from Mifflin County.