For two days in early December, Denis Fedotov’s nine-year-old son had red spots on his face and a high fever.
The boy was infected with measles – a disease that in 2000 was declared eradicated in the United States but has more recently made a comeback as vaccination rates have fallen.
In Spartanburg County, 111 people have contracted measles since an outbreak began in early October, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH). The outbreak appears to be “accelerating,” said state epidemiologist Linda Bell…