Health Pulse / Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Health Pulse

Public health surveillance data. Not medical advice.

Current Trends

COVID-19

Growing

Rt (effective reproduction): 1.0665

Week of 2026-08-25

Wastewater Viral Activity

Influenza A virus

Low

16 monitoring sites, week of 2026-08-22

RSV

Very Low

11 monitoring sites, week of 2026-08-22

SARS-CoV-2

Low

16 monitoring sites, week of 2026-08-22

Highest activity level observed among this state's wastewater monitoring sites. Wastewater signals often precede clinical reporting.

Notifiable Disease Reports

Disease	Latest Week	Count	52-Week Max
Campylobacteriosis	MMWR 33/2026	35	143
Cryptosporidiosis	MMWR 33/2026	7	32
Giardiasis	MMWR 33/2026	5	27
Legionellosis	MMWR 33/2026	6	22
Malaria	MMWR 29/2026	1	6
Mpox	MMWR 30/2026	1	5
Mumps	MMWR 11/2026	1	2
Pertussis	MMWR 33/2026	6	30
Salmonellosis (excluding Salmonella Typhi infection and Salmonella Paratyphi infection)	MMWR 33/2026	34	78
Shigellosis	MMWR 33/2026	6	17
Tuberculosis	MMWR 33/2026	4	14
Varicella disease	MMWR 33/2026	2	16

Weekly provisional counts reported to CDC NNDSS by state health departments. Each disease shows its own most recently reported week — some lag behind others. Provisional and subject to revision.

Health Profile

CDC PLACES has no local estimates for Pennsylvania in the release we use, so there is no community health profile to show here. A source gap, not missing data on our side.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Trend estimates and wastewater viral activity levels, not diagnoses or case counts. Public health surveillance data — not medical advice.