South Carolina surpassed 875 measles cases in the state’s first update of February. The South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) reported 29 new measles cases, which brings the total in the outbreak to 876. The public health agency also reported a new case of measles in Sumter County, and an investigation is underway into whether the new case is linked to the outbreak in the Upstate.
The added cases came a day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted a statement from Deputy Director Dr. Ralph Abraham to X, formerly Twitter, in which he said, “Under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s leadership, the CDC has surged resources, including vaccines and therapeutics, nationwide to support state and local response efforts and contain outbreaks.”
Framing measles as an American policy failure is inaccurate and misleading. Under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s leadership, the CDC has surged resources, including vaccines and therapeutics, nationwide to support state and local response efforts and…
— CDC (@CDCgov) February 2, 2026
The state’s current outbreak is the nation’s largest since measles was declared eliminated in 2000. And as more people contract the disease, DPH continues to ask unvaccinated South Carolinians to consider the vaccination and help “stop this outbreak.”…