The South Carolina Department of Public Health reported 27 new cases of measles on Tuesday, all identified since last Friday, bringing the total number of identified cases in the state this year to 114. There are currently at least 254 people in quarantine in South Carolina, though the problem isn’t just confined to one state.

The latest figures from the CDC, which haven’t been updated in over a week and don’t include hundreds of recent cases, indicate there have been 1,828 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. this year as of December 2 . Three people have died from measles in 2025, two kids and one adult, the first deaths from the disease in this country since 2015.

The U.S. officially eliminated measles as an endemic disease in the year 2000, thanks to the widespread vaccination pr

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