The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sept. 18 said it’s working on developing parameters for counting deaths caused by measles, while continuing to decline to add any recently reported deaths in Pennsylvania to its measles death count.
The CDC said in an update on measles cases and deaths in the United States on Friday that it has not received any death records from this year “that indicate measles is the underlying cause” of death.
The public health agency also said it is working with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists “to develop a standardized case definition for deaths due to measles.” Such a definition will promote consistent reporting of measles deaths across states and counties, according to the CDC….