A third person has died of measles in the US, health officials say
Pennsylvania reports that a 40-year-old woman died from the disease, which was declared eliminated in the US in 2000.
A 40-year-old woman in the state of Pennsylvania has died of measles, becoming the third person to die from a rare outbreak of the preventable disease in the United States.
“This is a heartbreaking loss for the family and an unfortunate reminder that measles can be a serious and potentially life-threatening disease,” Greg Furlong, the medical examiner for Jefferson County, about 230km (143 miles) northwest of Philadelphia, said in a statement posted online on Sunday.
Health officials did not identify the woman, but said she died of complications associated with measles on Saturday.
There have been 3,294 cases of measles in the US so far in 2026, according to the Centers for Disease Control, across more than 45 states.