A growing measles outbreak in South Carolina could make its way to Charlotte, Mecklenburg County Health Director Dr. Raynard Washington warned.
South Carolina has reported more than 130 confirmed measles cases and hundreds of people quarantined in Spartanburg and surrounding counties, part of a broader surge that has pushed U.S. cases to their highest level in decades, Axios reported.
“Measles, like other communicable diseases, does not respect geographic or social boundaries,” Washington told The Charlotte Observer in an email. “It is a very contagious disease that spreads through the air when someone who has measles talks, coughs or sneezes.”…