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兰开斯特县验尸官称未报告麻疹死亡病例，对夏皮罗宣布的两起死亡事件提出质疑
作者：罗伯特·麦格里维，福克斯新闻
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兰开斯特县议员指责夏皮罗在麻疹新闻发布会上“误导性”表述
宾夕法尼亚州兰开斯特县的一名议员约书亚·帕森斯指责州长乔希·夏皮罗存在误导行为，称其将一名婴儿的死亡归咎于麻疹，但该县验尸官表示该婴儿并非死于该病。
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随着该州麻疹疫情在31个县累计确诊460例，一名宾州县议员对夏皮罗州长宣布的两起麻疹相关死亡事件提出质疑，这加剧了他与卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·肯尼迪之间日益激烈的冲突。
作为兰开斯特县三名委员之一的约书亚·帕森斯指责夏皮罗在本周早些时候的新闻发布会上故意“误导”，这位民主党州长在会上指出该县有两起“与麻疹相关的死亡”。
“州长在新闻发布会上称这是与麻疹相关的死亡，但这种表述，以及其背后的核心暗示，都将这两起死亡说成是麻疹导致的，”帕森斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
在周二与黛布拉·博根博士一同在宾州医学兰开斯特综合医院举行的新闻发布会上，夏皮罗宣布了两名未接种麻疹疫苗的人员死亡。
“今天，我们看到了免疫接种缺失的后果——这是我们联邦州35年来首次出现与麻疹相关的死亡，”夏皮罗说道。
前CDC顾问称幼儿园疫苗接种率下降无需担忧：“保持冷静，继续前行”
乔希·夏皮罗，宾州州长，摄于2026年7月15日美国卡莱尔市宾州国防与创新峰会。（汤姆·布伦纳/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
夏皮罗在新闻发布会上强烈敦促宾州民众接种麻疹疫苗。
“我想明确一点：这种疾病以及因麻疹导致的死亡是完全可以预防的，”他说。
帕森斯表示，夏皮罗将死亡原因归咎于麻疹。
验尸官提出质疑后，小罗伯特·肯尼迪称麻疹死亡事件可能是“编造的”
帕森斯指出，多家全国性媒体都将这两起死亡事件描述为麻疹导致的死亡。《纽约时报》周二的一篇报道目前仍发布在其网站上，标题为“官员称两名未接种疫苗者在宾州死于麻疹”。
验尸官提出质疑后，小罗伯特·肯尼迪称麻疹死亡事件可能是“编造的”
约书亚·帕森斯，兰开斯特县三名委员之一兼县委员会副主席。（兰开斯特县委员办公室 供图）
然而，帕森斯称，根据他与兰开斯特县验尸官的谈话，该县今年无人死于麻疹。
“验尸官报告称，他们没有……收到任何麻疹死亡或与麻疹相关死亡的报告。在宾州，如果有人死于传染病，必须向县验尸官报告，”帕森斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
验尸官提出质疑后，小罗伯特·肯尼迪称麻疹死亡事件可能是“编造的”
该县验尸官斯蒂芬·迪亚曼托尼博士也在接受当地媒体采访时公开表示，他没有接到夏皮罗或宾州卫生部门的任何联系，并对得知该新闻发布会感到意外。
“验尸官曾遇到过一例病例：一名在家中分娩的婴儿死亡，他已经公开谈及过此事。这名婴儿检测出麻疹，但并非死于麻疹。在新闻发布会召开时，州政府并未说明这两起病例是谁，也未透露任何相关信息。随后，他们公开表示这名婴儿是他们统计的病例之一，”帕森斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
验尸官提出质疑后，小罗伯特·肯尼迪称麻疹死亡事件可能是“编造的”
宾州卫生部门在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中坚称，他们始终将这些病例称为“与麻疹相关”。
“宾州卫生部门并未说明任何一名死者的直接死因。正如该部门自周二以来多次明确的那样，我们在提及这两起死亡事件时始终使用‘与麻疹相关’这一表述。该术语意味着存在实验室或流行病学证据证明感染了麻疹——两起病例的麻疹检测均呈阳性——但医疗证明人或验尸官可能并未认定麻疹是直接死因，”声明中写道。
验尸官提出质疑后，小罗伯特·肯尼迪称麻疹死亡事件可能是“编造的”
验尸官承认这名死亡婴儿体内存在麻疹病毒，但表示他和参与尸检的病理学家均未认为麻疹是致死原因。
人们可能在出现皮疹前数日就已具有传染性。（iStock）
据帕森斯透露，验尸官称这名婴儿死于脾脏破裂。他还表示，自己尚未收到关于夏皮罗和宾州卫生部门提到的第二名死者的任何信息。
验尸官提出质疑后，小罗伯特·肯尼迪称麻疹死亡事件可能是“编造的”
帕森斯称，这表明死亡原因并非麻疹。
“卫生部门就这些问题发布了一份回应声明。我认为这反而引发了更多疑问，但其中有一句话称，并非宾夕法尼亚州所有死亡事件都必须向县验尸官报告，这一点没错。例如，如果一名老年人死于自然原因，就无需调查或向验尸官报告，”帕森斯说道。
“但如果有人死于传染病，就必须上报。因此，如果兰开斯特县确实存在第二起死亡事件，理应已经上报，”帕森斯说。“现在，有一种可能性不大的情况：有人在此处感染麻疹，随后在县外死亡，这种情况会上报给其他县的验尸官。如果真是这样——我认为这极不可能——如果确实如此，他们应该说明情况。”
当福克斯新闻数字频道询问卫生部门为何未联系验尸官时，该部门回应称：“宾夕法尼亚州法典第16篇（宾州法典第16 P.S. Counties § 4236 | FindLaw）规定了验尸官在何种情况下需要介入调查死亡事件。尽管卫生部门在诸多方面与县验尸官合作，包括死亡报告，但卫生部门并不规范或监督验尸官的工作，验尸官也不参与其所在县的大多数死亡事件调查。”
麻疹病毒，属于副粘病毒科麻疹病毒属，透射电镜视图。（BSIP/环球图片社 via 盖蒂图片社）
肯尼迪也对夏皮罗的言论提出了批评。
“夏皮罗州长匆忙前往兰开斯特县召开全国性新闻发布会，并得意洋洋地宣布两起麻疹死亡事件，这对当代政治对话而言是一种阴郁的评论，”卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪在周三的X平台帖子中写道。
卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪，2026年5月21日在明尼苏达州联邦地区检察官办公室向媒体发表讲话。（大卫·伯丁/盖蒂图片社）
“这场表演重演了民主党人的新冠疫情操作手册：制造恐慌、传播错误信息、指责他人，并为了政治利益将传染病恐惧武器化，”他的帖子继续说道。
“这次宣布似乎为时过早，死亡事件甚至可能是州长某位抱有期望的幕僚完全编造的。兰开斯特县验尸官表示，没有任何麻疹死亡的记录。州法律要求所有麻疹死亡事件都必须向验尸官报告，”肯尼迪补充道。
据《华盛顿邮报》报道，在夏皮罗周二宣布消息前几分钟，肯尼迪与夏皮罗进行了一场激烈的电话通话。据透露，在通话中夏皮罗告诉肯尼迪，他不希望联邦政府为持续的麻疹疫情提供帮助。
卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪，2026年2月2日在华盛顿特区就心理健康和成瘾倡议发表讲话。（格雷姆·斯隆/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
截至周五，宾州卫生部门表示，2026年至今该州已有31个县确诊460例麻疹病例。据美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）的数据，这是自1991年以来美国最大规模的麻疹疫情。
宾州卫生部门表示，该州大多数感染者未接种疫苗。
帕森斯强调，此次疫情大多集中在选择不接种疫苗的宗教社区。
“这里确实存在麻疹疫情，”帕森斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“宾州其他县也有。很多关注点都放在了阿曼门诺派和门诺派这些群体上。他们中的许多人选择不接种疫苗。总体而言，他们照常生活，继续过自己的日子。我们当然有资源为想要接种疫苗的人提供服务，但我坚信这是每个人的个人选择，”帕森斯总结道。
在回应置评请求时，夏皮罗的办公室将福克斯新闻数字频道转介给了宾州卫生部门。
当福克斯新闻数字频道联系《纽约时报》时，该报的一位代表表示，报纸“对我们报道的准确性充满信心”。
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Pennsylvania commissioner accuses Shapiro of ‘deceptive’ measles death framing as RFK Jr blasts Dem governor
August 29, 2026 1:07pm EDT / Fox News
Lancaster County coroner says no measles deaths were reported, raising questions about two fatalities announced by Shapiro
By Robert McGreevy, Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6404212214112Lancaster County commissioner accuses Shapiro of ‘deceptive’ framing in measles press conference
Joshua Parsons, one of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania’s commissioners, accused Gov. Josh Shapiro of deception for framing an infant’s death as being from measles after the county coroner said the baby did not die from the disease.
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A Pennsylvania county commissioner is challenging Gov. Josh Shapiro’s announcement of two measles-associated deaths, fueling a growing clash with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the state’s outbreak swells to 460 confirmed cases across 31 counties.
Joshua Parsons, one of three Lancaster County commissioners, accused Shapiro of being intentionally “deceptive” during a press conference earlier this week, when the Democratic governor pointed to two “measles-related deaths” in the county.
“Well, the governor, in the press conference, they said they were measles-associated deaths, but it was framed, and very much the underlying assertion to it, was that these were measles deaths,” Parsons told Fox News Digital.
During a Tuesday press conference alongside Dr. Debra Bogen at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Hospital, Shapiro announced the deaths of two people who were unvaccinated for measles.
“Today, we see the consequences of a lack of immunizations in the first measles-associated deaths that our Commonwealth has seen in 35 years,” Shapiro said.
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Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, during the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, US, on Wednesday, July 15, 2026.(Tom Brenner/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Shapiro strongly urged Pennsylvanians to get vaccinated for measles during the press conference.
“I want to be clear: This illness and death from measles is completely preventable,” he said.
Parsons said Shapiro cast the deaths as being the result of measles.
MEASLES DEATHS MAY HAVE BEEN ‘FABRICATED,’ RFK JR CLAIMS AFTER CORONER RAISES QUESTIONS
Parsons noted that national media outlets framed the deaths as being from measles. The New York Times, in a Tuesday story still posted to its website, wrote the headline, “Two Unvaccinated People Died From Measles in Pennsylvania, Officials Say.”
MEASLES DEATHS MAY HAVE BEEN ‘FABRICATED,’ RFK JR CLAIMS AFTER CORONER RAISES QUESTIONS
Joshua Parsons, one of three Lancaster County Commissioners and the Vice Chairman of the County Commission.(Lancaster County Commissioners Office)
However, according to conversations he had with the Lancaster County Coroner, Parsons claimed nobody in the county has died from measles this year.
“The coroner reported that they don’t have… they had zero measles deaths or measles associated-deaths reported. And in Pennsylvania if you have someone who dies of a contagious disease, that does have to be reported to the county coroner,” Parsons told Fox News Digital.
MEASLES DEATHS MAY HAVE BEEN ‘FABRICATED,’ RFK JR CLAIMS AFTER CORONER RAISES QUESTIONS
The coroner, Dr. Stephen Diamoantoni, has also publicly stated in interviews with local media that he had not been contacted by either Shapiro or the Pennsylvania Department of Health and was surprised to learn of the press conference.
“The coroner had one case where there was an infant who died in a home birth, and he’s talked about this publicly, and that infant died with measles but not of measles. At the time of the press conference, the state did not indicate who these two cases were or anything about them. Subsequently, they came out and said that this infant is one of the ones they’re counting,” Parsons told Fox News Digital.
MEASLES DEATHS MAY HAVE BEEN ‘FABRICATED,’ RFK JR CLAIMS AFTER CORONER RAISES QUESTIONS
The Pennsylvania Department of Health, in a statement to Fox News Digital, asserted that it consistently referred to the cases as “measles-associated.”
“PA DOH did not describe the cause of death of either individual. As PA DOH has repeatedly made clear since Tuesday, the Department consistently used the term ‘measles-associated’ in relation to these two deaths. That term means laboratory or epidemiologic evidence of measles is present — in both cases there was a positive measles test — but the disease may not be assessed by the medical certifier or coroner to be the immediate cause of death,” the statement read.
MEASLES DEATHS MAY HAVE BEEN ‘FABRICATED,’ RFK JR CLAIMS AFTER CORONER RAISES QUESTIONS
The coroner did acknowledge the presence of measles in the infant who died, but said neither he nor the pathologist who examined the infant believed measles to be the cause of death.
Individuals can be infected for days without seeing a rash.(iStock)
The coroner, according to Parsons, said the infant died of a lacerated spleen. He also said he has received no information about the second person mentioned by Shapiro and the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
MEASLES DEATHS MAY HAVE BEEN ‘FABRICATED,’ RFK JR CLAIMS AFTER CORONER RAISES QUESTIONS
Parsons said that suggested the deaths not being from measles.
“The Health Department put out a statement in reply to some of these questions. And I think it just raised more questions, but one line they had in there was that not all deaths in Pennsylvania have to be reported to the county coroner, and that’s true. If you have, for example, an elderly person who dies of natural causes, that does not have to be investigated or reported to the coroner,” Parsons said.
“But if you have someone who dies of an infectious disease, that does have to be reported. So if there is a second death in Lancaster County, that should have been reported,” Parsons said. “Now, there’s an unlikely scenario that someone contracted measles here and then died outside the county, and that would be reported to another county coroner. And if that’s the case, which I think is highly unlikely, if it is the case, they should state that.”
The Pennsylvania Department of Health, in response to Fox News Digital asking the department why it did not contact the coroner, said “Pennsylvania Statutes Title 16 (Pennsylvania Statutes Title 16 P.S. Counties § 4236 | FindLaw) outlines when a coroner would be called in to investigate a death. While DOH collaborates with county coroners in various ways, including death reporting, DOH does not regulate or oversee coroner operations, nor are coroners involved in most deaths within their county. “
The measles virus, paramyxoviridae from the Morbillivirus family, transmission microscopy view.(BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Kennedy was also critical of Shapiro’s comments.
“Governor Shapiro’s unseemly rush to Lancaster County to convene a national press conference and his giddy delight in announcing two measles deaths was a morose commentary on the contemporary political dialogue,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote in a Wednesday post on X.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. addresses the media at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota on May 21, 2026.(David Berding/Getty Images)
“The performance was a replay of the Democrats’ COVID playbook: fearmongering, misinformation, finger-pointing, and the weaponization of infectious disease fears for political gain,” his post continued.
“The announcement appears to have been premature, and the deaths may even have been altogether fabricated by one of the Governor’s hopeful staffers. The Lancaster County Coroner says that it has no record of any measles deaths. State law requires that all measles deaths be reported to the coroner,” Kennedy also added.
Kennedy and Shapiro, according to The Washington Post, had a heated phone call just minutes before Shapiro’s Tuesday announcement. During the call, Shapiro reportedly told Kennedy he did not want the federal government’s help with the ongoing measles outbreak.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during an announcement addressing mental health and addiction initiatives in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 2, 2026.(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
As of Friday, the Pennsylvania Department of Health said 460 measles cases have been confirmed across 31 counties in the state so far in 2026. It marks the nation’s largest measles outbreak since 1991, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The majority of infected persons in the state are not vaccinated, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
Parsons highlighted that much of the outbreak is relegated to religious communities whose members choose not to get vaccinated.
“There’s certainly measles here,” Parsons told Fox News Digital. “There are in other Pennsylvania counties as well. And a lot of the focus has been on the plain population, Amish and Mennonites. Many of them choose not to get vaccinated. And by and large, they’re going about their life and they’re living their life and just continue on. So, we certainly have resources available for people if they wanna get vaccinated, but I believe strongly that’s each individual’s choice,” Parsons concluded.
In response to a request for comment, Shapiro’s office referred Fox News Digital to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
Reached by Fox News Digital, a representative from the Times said the newspaper is “confident in the accuracy of our story.”
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