A 40-year-old Pennsylvania woman who died Saturday likely had measles and was not vaccinated against the disease, a county coroner confirmed to Healio on Monday.
Jefferson County Coroner Greg Furlong told Healio he has “good, conclusive evidence” that the woman had measles, calling it a “probable” case.
Results of a post-mortem test have not yet come back, but Furlong described it as a “measles-associated death.”
The woman lived in the county, a rural area northeast of Pittsburgh. It is the third Pennsylvania death connected to measles this year. The other two