US EditionHundreds quarantined in South Carolina measles outbreak
More than 250 people, mostly unvaccinated, are quarantined as the outbreak spreads through schools, households, and a church in upstate South Carolina, state epidemiologist said.
- On Dec. 10 the South Carolina Department of Public Health reported 111 measles cases since early October, with at least 254 quarantined residents and 16 isolated.
- Health officials said the rise stems from Thanksgiving travel and holiday gatherings and lower-than-expected vaccine coverage in local communities with low MMR coverage.
- Health investigators found 105 unvaccinated cases and three partially vaccinated, tracing multiple infections to the Way of Truth Church in Inman, Spartanburg County.
- Some students now face a second 21-day quarantine, officials expect transmission for weeks, and mobile health clinics were deployed locally with low turnout.
- The CDC reported 1,912 measles cases this year linked to 47 outbreaks, and experts caution the U.S. could lose WHO elimination status if transmission lasts 12 months.
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Hundreds of people in the US state of South Carolina have been quarantined over a measles outbreak. The vaccine-preventable virus has been considered eliminated in the US since 2000, but the country is now at risk of losing that status. Outbreaks are also growing along the Utah-Arizona border, and the national case count is nearly 2,000. Globally, it’s been a good year for vaccine science; in the US, though, “deep institutional skepticism” of va…
Hundreds quarantined in South Carolina as measles spreads | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of school-age children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.
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Independent EspañolBy Devi Shastri - Measles outbreaks are on the rise along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are under quarantine. Between Friday and Tuesday, South Carolina health officials confirmed 27 new cases of measles as part of an outbreak in and around northwest Spartanburg County. In two months, 111 people have fallen ill with the vaccine-preventable virus. More than 250 people, including students from nine local elementary …
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