CHICAGO, IL-The AP reports that “between Friday and Tuesday, South Carolina health officials confirmed 27 new measles cases in an outbreak in and around northwestern Spartanburg County.
In two months, 111 people have been sickened by the vaccine-preventable virus.” So far, more than 250 people, including students from nine schools, “are in quarantine – some for the second time since the outbreak began in October.
Most of the state’s new cases stemmed from exposures at Way of Truth Church in Inman.
” Meanwhile, “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.” Overall, Utah has confirmed 115 measles cases this year, while Arizona has confirmed 176.
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