For many South Carolina adults, the reality of having taken a measles vaccine when they were younger is likely not something that has been in the front of their mind through the years.
After all, the highly contagious virus had, for the most part, been eradicated in the U.S. and the Palmetto State decades ago. That many adults had received a measles vaccine as children was simply a fact that was tucked away in the memory. Just one small part of an individual’s journey.
But now, South Carolina — and in particular the Upstate region — has become the epicenter of a reemergence of the measles. Since the beginning of an outbreak last year, there have been more than 900 total cases in South Carolina, according to the SC Department of Public Health, with a majority of those cases centered in Spartanburg County…