Health Officials In Red State Say Hundreds Quarantined Due To Outbreak

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

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