South Carolina health officials today confirmed an additional 15 new cases of measles since Tuesday, as the widening outbreak of the vaccine-preventable disease in the northwest part of the state has infected 126 people so far.

At least 303 people exposed to the highly contagious virus have been placed in quarantine and 13 infected people are in isolation to curb the spread of the disease, the state health department said.

Thirteen of the new cases were from known household exposures, one was from a neighborhood contact and the other was from an unknown source still being investigated.

Of those infected, 119 were unvaccinated, three were partially vaccinated with one of the recommended two-dose measles-mumps-rubella vaccines, one was fully vaccinated and three had unknown vaccination st

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