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South Carolina: 2025-2026 Measles

Source: https://www.southcarolinapublicradi...y-unrelated-to-states-recently-ended-outbreak

DPH confirms second measles case in Saluda County unrelated to state's recently ended outbreak
South Carolina Public Radio | By Luis-Alfredo Garcia
Published May 4, 2026 at 1:26 PM EDT​

The illness stems from a person who became sick after international travel.

The South Carolina Department of Public Health reported a second measles case in Saluda County Monday. The new case is unrelated to the state's measles outbreak that ended April 26 and developed into the nation's largest outbreak since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000.

DPH reported the first international-travel-related case on April 17 in a Saluda County adult who is now out of quarantine. The second person — whose vaccination history is unknown — has been in quarantine and has not caused additional public exposure.

Thirty-nine people will stay in quarantine through May 9.

DPH Deputy Director and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brannon Traxler said in a statement that the agency's strategies to prevent further case spread from the exposure have been successful...


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Source: https://www.medicaldaily.com/south-...ver-997-cases-lessons-containment-2026-475850

South Carolina's 997-Case Measles Outbreak Has Ended — Here Is Exactly What Stopped It
Published Jun 30, 2026 11:01 AM EDT By Joseph James​

The largest measles outbreak in the United States in more than three decades is over.

On April 26, 2026, the South Carolina Department of Public Health declared the Upstate region measles outbreak officially ended after 42 consecutive days with no new outbreak-related cases — the CDC's standard threshold for declaring a measles outbreak concluded. Final case count: 997. Hospitalizations: 21. Deaths: 0.

"Though we reached nearly 1,000 cases, we are grateful that, by and large, it remained confined to one county and did not spread statewide, as was always our concern and fear," said Dr. Brannon Traxler, the department's deputy director and chief medical officer, at a news conference announcing the end of the outbreak.

That outcome — an outbreak of nearly 1,000 cases contained to one primary county with no deaths — did not happen by accident.

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