Pennsylvania asks for CDC help on measles outbreak, demands agency recognize measles deaths: Reuters

The Pennsylvania health department ​said it was requesting emergency support from the US CDC as it grapples with one of the country's largest and most deadly measles outbreaks, according to a document reviewed by Reuters on ⁠Thursday. The request ‌comes on condition that the federal agency recognize four ⁠measles-associated deaths reported by the state, raising the stakes in a dispute with the Trump administration. The state's measles outbreak has become the focus of a standoff between U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Governor Josh ‌Shapiro, a Democrat. Kennedy has cast doubt on whether deaths reported in U.S.