South Carolina has logged 434 cases as of Tuesday in an outbreak centered in Spartanburg County with 124 new cases since Friday, according to state officials. The outbreak has rapidly grown over the last month to one of the worst in the nation.
State health officials acknowledged they expected the spike in cases after people’s holiday travel to be with family. A growing number of public exposures and low vaccination rates in the area are also driving the surge, they said.
One of the confirmed cases of measles is someone who visited the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia on the afternoon of Jan. 2 while unknowingly infectious.
“People exposed at this location who are not immune could begin developing early symptoms of measles now,” the S.C. Department of Public Health said Tuesday. “DPH is asking anyone who was at the museum during that specific day and time to contact a health care provider if you believe you may have been exposed and you develop symptoms, or if you do not have immunity to measles.”
Symptoms of measles include cough, runny nose, red watery eyes and fever, followed by a rash two to three days later that starts on the face then spreads to the rest of the body.
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