More than 150 unvaccinated children in South Carolina have been placed under a 21-day quarantine after exposure in a measles outbreak. State Health officials hope to halt the spread.
Last week, officials in Greenville identified an eighth measles case that is potentially linked to the outbreak. Seven outbreak cases had been confirmed since September 25 in neighboring Spartanburg, where transmission was identified in two schools: Fairforest Elementary and Global Academy, a public charter school.
Across those two schools, at least 153 unvaccinated children were exposed to the virus and have been put in a 21-day quarantine, during which they are barred from attending school, state officials said in a press conference. Twenty-one days is the maximum incubation period, spanning from when a person is exposed to when they would develop a rash if infected.
It's unclear how the latest case in Greenville became infected with the virus and how they may link to the nearby Spartanburg cases.
"What this case tells us is that there is active, unrecognized community transmission of measles occurring in the Upstate [northern region of South Carolina], which makes it vital to ensure that the public have received their measles vaccinations," the South Carolina Department of Public Health said in an announcement.
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When will these parents, who were most likely vaccinated as children, get over the irresponsible and stupid idea that they know better? It is bad enough that Trump appointed a charlatan anti-vaxxer as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, while still getting his bloated visage updated shots. The loss of the social contract between United States citizens has been a huge blow to the nation.
Previously:
• 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine approved. Now go get it!
• Falling vaccination rate leads to worst year of measles outbreaks in decades
• Politician who opposed mandatory chickenpox vaccine has been hospitalized after getting chickenpox
