In South Carolina’s surging measles outbreak, infectious people have exposed others to the virus in the labor and delivery unit of a hospital – where babies are at high risk of infection, as well as in the workplaces of some of the region’s major employers, including manufacturing plants for BMW and Michelin.
Internal records obtained by Healthbeat from the South Carolina Department of Public Health’s outbreak response reveal more about the scope of the outbreak’s impact within the state and across the country than has been previously made public.
The documents, obtained under South Carolina’s public records law, also show the state’s outbreak has resulted in measles exposure incidents in public locations in several other states. They include infectious people from South Carolina who attended a large youth conference in Kentucky, went to a hospital in Florida, and visited busy travel convenience stores in Georgia and Texas…