Posted on 12/11/2025 10:17:31 AM PST by DFG
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials said Wednesday.
As of Wednesday, 111 measles cases had been reported in what’s known as upstate South Carolina — an area in the northwest of the state that includes Greenville and Spartanburg.
“We are faced with ongoing transmission that we anticipate will go on for many more weeks,” Dr. Linda Bell, state epidemiologist for the South Carolina Department of Public Health, said during a news briefing Wednesday.
Twenty-seven of those cases have been reported since Friday. “That is a significant increase in our cases in a short period of time,” Bell said. She attributed the spike in part to holiday travel and get-togethers, as well as low vaccination rates.
According to NBC News data, the K-12 vaccination rate for measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) in Spartanburg County was 90% for the 2024-25 school year, below the 95% level doctors say is needed to protect against an outbreak. In neighboring Greenville County, the MMR vaccination rate was 90.5%.
The health department deployed mobile health clinics to the area to provide MMR shots, but few people in the community took advantage. “I can tell you that a relatively small number of doses was administered at each of the mobile health unit clinics that we offered,” Bell said.
No other vaccination clinics are planned, according to the department’s website.
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Ill Eagles?
Bring in turd worlders without vetting and you get turd world diseases.
MMR vaccine is one of the more controversial ones. It used to be all separate, with boosters
Anyway I’m all for a common sense vaccine schedule. Tired of the false extremes media wants to paint the discussion.
^ Meaning one for measles, one for mumps, one for rubella. (Plus boosters.) Inconvenient yes, but for some reason them being all combined is more convenient but too rough on some children’s systems…
That, and the fact that Pharma and the medical community destroyed a lot of trust in vaccines with the evil covid mRNA fake shots. Lying to people and withholding the truth from people cause this type of distrust.
People can no longer be sure as to what is in all these vaccines being shot into the bodies of their families.
Thank you open borders for re-introducing disease we eradicated.
That would be my guess as to why the mobile vaccination clinics have so low turnout. Illegals are afraid of ICE.
“Thank you open borders for re-introducing disease we eradicated.”
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With air travel as the primary means of global transportation, disease recognizes no borders, open or otherwise.
The is the predictable outcome of trashing our existing vaccination and public health programs.
“Democracy means people should get what they want, good and hard.” H.L. Mencken
Same state that had a school sick out with thousands of la illegales?
It’s very likely that the initial source was overseas. Might have been brought here by immigrants—legal or otherwise. But it could have been brought here by an unvaccinated American citizen. Would be interesting to find out.
In the past, those who didn’t get vaccinated were protected, because the vast number of people did get vaccinated. The disease didn’t have much opportunity to spread. Today, with lower vaccination rates, those who don’t get vaccinated are no longer quite as protected by the lesser number of those who do.
I remember the Bowery boys getting measles that were little swasticas. Then they said oh it’s German measles
I would surmise that most of the pathogens come across with foot traffic and lower income invaders and spread from there via the white, tinted windowed tour buses I see on I-35 going and coming non-stop. Stop those buses.
90 percent is way too high.
Full disclosure I am a child of the 1950's and exposure parties. I about lost a sister to complications from measles .
A generation ago people took their children to a home where there was measles so that they would catch it. I think I did vaccinate my three children. They all had chickenpox however. I don’t remember when that vaccine became available. I had a horrible case of chickenpox when I was 14 and I sit here today with shingles in spite of the fact that I got that vaccine. Good news is that we caught the shingles early and I’m on medication for it. After three days I’m feeling much better.
I had the measles when I was around 10 years old. I missed a week or two of school.
Gone are the days of families in the 1940s and 1950s having Chicken Pox and measles parties to get their kids these diseases to get it over with.
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Cruise ships via airplane is quite a vector!
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