Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine.

Between Friday and Tuesday, South Carolina health officials confirmed 27 new measles cases in an outbreak in and around northwestern Spartanburg County. In two months, 111 people have been sickened by the vaccine-preventable virus .

More than 250 people, including students from nine area elementary, middle and high schools, are in quarantine — some for the second time since the outbreak began in October. Most of the state’s new cases stemmed from exposures at Way of Truth Church in Inman. Church leaders have been “very helpful,” said state epidemiologist Dr. Linda Bell.

Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds ar

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