A measles outbreak in upstate South Carolina has forced more than 150 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine, state health officials said.
The South Carolina Department of Public Health said in an Oct. 9 briefing that the state has recorded its 11th measles case of the year, after a new infection was confirmed in a child from Greenville County, the state’s most populous county.
“What this new case tells us is that there is active, unrecognized community transmission of measles occurring,” said Dr. Linda Bell, South Carolina’s state epidemiologist.
Eight of the state’s cases have been linked to two schools in neighboring Spartanburg County, one public elementary school and one public K-12 charter school….