CDC Excluding ‘Measles-Associated’ Deaths From Official Count

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating deaths that Pennsylvania officials reported as associated with measles, and not including them in an official tally at this time, officials said on Sept. 1.
“The two measles-associated deaths announced by Pennsylvania have not been confirmed based on the information currently available to CDC,” a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the CDC’s parent agency, told The Epoch Times in an email.
State officials on Aug. 25 said that the deaths of two individuals in Lancaster County were “related to measles” and “measles-associated.” They encouraged people to go get the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine to prevent further deaths….