Officials are urging people who are not vaccinated against measles to do so following two measles deaths in Pennsylvania. Matt Ferrari, a professor of biology at Penn State says getting vaccinated is the simple solution to keeping the disease from spreading. Pennsylvania’s Department of Health confirms both measles deaths were in unvaccinated people in Lancaster County. CDC data shows been a huge rise in the number of measles cases in the U.S. this year and last year. There’s around 28-hundred measles so far this year. There were 285 cases in 2024.
