(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

(Chambersburg, PA) A sixth death related to measles has now been recorded in Pennsylvania. 

A 39-year-old woman died on Saturday in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, after a past diagnosis of measles.  

This death meets the criteria that is established by the Pennsylvania Department of Health for a measles-associated fatality, which marks the first such death in Franklin County in many years. 

This loss comes as the United States is enduring its highest annual number of measles cases and related complications since the year 1991.