Hundreds of residents in South Carolina are in quarantine due to a measles outbreak, health officials stated.
“The South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) is reporting 27 new cases of measles in the state since Friday, bringing the total number of cases in South Carolina related to the Upstate outbreak to 111 and the total number reported to DPH this year to 114,” the South Carolina Department of Public Health stated in a release.
“Sixteen of the new cases resulted from the previously reported exposure at the Way of Truth Church in Inman, eight of the cases are household members of known cases, one resulted from a previously reported school exposure, one was from an exposure in a health care setting, and the source of exposure is unknown for one of the cases,” the release continued.
“There are currently 254 people in quarantine and 16 in isolation,” it added.
🚨Report: A measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings
As of Wednesday, 111 measles cases have been reported in South Carolina including several in Greenville and Spartanburg counties
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More from the South Carolina Department of Public Health:
Based on the new cases, DPH has identified public exposures at Inman Intermediate School and began notifying potentially exposed students, faculty and staff on Dec. 4. There are currently 43 students in quarantine. Students from Inman Intermediate who quarantine successfully without becoming ill are scheduled to be able to return to classes Dec. 15.
DPH encourages those potentially exposed to notify a health care provider of the exposure before seeking care to allow arrangements to be made in clinical settings to protect others as clinical sites have also been settings of public exposures.
A person with measles is contagious from four days before the rash appears through four days after its onset, meaning people with mild symptoms can spread measles before they know they have the disease. To help stop the spread of measles, it is very important for those who have even mild illness or are in quarantine to stay home to protect others. We encourage employers to support workers in following DPH recommendations to stay out of work while ill or in quarantine which also protects businesses, other workers and clients.
DPH did not say in its release if the outbreak resulted in any deaths.
Hundreds quarantined in South Carolina measles outbreak https://t.co/cr3cHtTfot
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Unsurprisingly, DPH and mainstream outlets pushed for vaccination as the “best” defense against measles.
“Vaccination continues to be the best way to prevent measles and stop this outbreak,” DPH stated.
The Associated Press shared further:
In Arizona and Utah, an outbreak has ballooned since August. Mohave County, Arizona has logged 172 cases and the Southwest Utah Public Health Department has logged 82 cases. The border cities of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, are the heaviest hit.
Overall, Utah has confirmed 115 measles cases this year. Arizona has confirmed 176.
ADVERTISEMENTNationally, the measles case count is nearing 2,000 for a disease that has been considered eliminated in the U.S. since 2000, a result of routine childhood vaccinations.
Last month, Canada lost that designation — which applies when there is no continuous local spread of the virus — as did the larger health region of the Americas.
Experts say the U.S. is also at risk of losing that status. For that to happen, measles would have to spread continuously for a year. A large outbreak in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma that started in January sickened nearly 900 and kicked off the United States’ worst measles year in more than three decades.
