Wisconsin reports its first measles death in decades, the third in the U.S. this week

NBC News · Aria Bendix · 2026-11-05 20:05 UTC

The infant’s death followed a measles-associated death reported Wednesday in Pennsylvania and another Monday in New York.

An infant in Wisconsin has died of measles, the state health department said Thursday — the third measles-related death reported in the U.S. this week.

It’s Wisconsin’s first measles-related death since 1990, the Health Service Department said, adding that a coroner had listed measles as the infant’s immediate cause of death.

The news came just one day after Pennsylvania’s Health Department reported another measles-associated death there — the state’s sixth this year. It said Wednesday that an unvaccinated resident in Jefferson County who tested positive for measles had died.

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