Doctors and public health officials are concerned about the drop in health alerts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since President Trump returned for a second term.
The South Carolina measles outbreak is now bigger than last year's Texas outbreak and is happening as the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination status.
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Public health workers spent about 200 extra work hours to track down 268 people who might’ve been exposed to measles in recent weeks in an outbreak that began with an unvaccinated Georgia State University student, Fulton County health officials said Tuesday.
In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.
Measles has spread from an unvaccinated Georgia State University student to three other people, bringing the total cases reported in Georgia this year to 10.
The U.S. has hit an unwelcome milestone in measles cases this year. The CDC is reporting 1,288 cases across the country. The disease was declared eliminated 25 years ago.
As of June 6, the state has reported five cases of measles, more than half of which affected one Atlanta area family that contracted the disease outside the United States.
An unvaccinated person in the Greater Atlanta area contracted measles while traveling outside of the country, and the state health department is tracing contacts who may have been exposed between May 10 and 18.
