Late last week South Carolina reported 15 new measles cases in its ongoing Upstate outbreak, bringing the outbreak total to 126 and the state total to 129.
“Thirteen of the new cases are from known household exposures, one was from a neighborhood contact and another was from an unknown source still being investigated,” the state’s department of public health said in a press statement. “There are currently 303 people in quarantine and 13 in isolation.”
Exposures at 11 schools
The new cases bring new school exposures, including Campobello Gramling School (67 students in quarantine) and Boiling Springs Elementary (16 students in quarantine). The total number of schools with students in quarantine is now 11.
Of case-patients with known vaccination status, 119 were unvaccinated, and three were partially vaccinated. Only one person with measles was fully vaccinated, and three patients have unknown status.
Twenty-four children under the age of 5 years have been affected in South Carolina, and 86 (68%) of 126 case-patients with available data are 5 to 17 years old.
