COLUMBIA, S.C. ― The South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) is reporting  27 new cases of measles  in the state since Friday, bringing the total number of cases in South Carolina related to the Upstate outbreak to 111 and the total number reported to DPH this year to 114.

Sixteen of the new cases resulted from the previously reported exposure at the Way of Truth Church in Inman, eight of the cases are household members of known cases, one resulted from a previously reported school exposure, one was from an exposure in a health care setting, and the source of exposure is unknown for one of the cases.

There are currently 254 people in quarantine and 16 in isolation.

Based on the new cases, DPH has identified public exposures at Inman Intermediate School and began notifying pot

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