South Carolinas measles outbreak is over after sickening nearly 1,000 people
South Carolina's measles outbreak — the worst in the U. S. in more than 35 years — is over, state health officials declared Monday. On Sunday, the state passed the threshold of 42 days with no new outbreak-related cases. In the end, 997 people were sickened by the vaccine-preventable disease since October and at least 21 of them were hospitalized, based on voluntary reports to the state. State health officials estimate the outbreak response cost $2. 1 million. “The outbreak was contained...
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