A nurse readies a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in May 2025 at Sanford Children’s Hospital in Sioux Falls. (Photo by Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight))
COLUMBIA — More than 220 people in South Carolina are in quarantine for measles heading into Christmas week, after the number of cases in a monthslong outbreak hit 144, the state health department said Friday.
All the exposures so far have come from Spartanburg County, primarily through schools and a church in Inman, according to the Department of Public Health. Over the past week, the department has reported 18 new cases…