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🌱 How a local church exposure helped drive South Carolina’s measles surge

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  • How a local church exposure helped drive South Carolina’s measles surge

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• US hot spots see more measles cases as national total nears 2,000 (umn.edu) — Health officials report a growing measles outbreak in South Carolina, with several new cases tied to earlier exposure at the Way of Truth Church in Inman and one new school exposure in the Upstate. Most cases are among school-age children in low-vaccination elementary schools, and more than 160 people are currently in quarantine or isolation statewide.
   

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