{"id":10882,"date":"2025-11-26T13:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10882"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:01:37","slug":"south-carolinas-measles-outbreak-shows-chilling-effect-of-vaccine-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/11\/26\/south-carolinas-measles-outbreak-shows-chilling-effect-of-vaccine-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina\u2019s Measles Outbreak Shows Chilling Effect of Vaccine Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/measles-outbreak-south-carolina-vaccine-misinformation-kennedy-rfk\/\">Kaiser Health News<\/a> Near the back corner of the local library\u2019s parking lot, largely out of view from the main road, the South Carolina Department of Public Health opened a pop-up clinic in early November, offering free measles vaccines to adults and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spartanburg County, in South Carolina\u2019s Upstate region, has been fighting a measles outbreak since early October, with more than 50 cases identified. Health officials have encouraged people who are unvaccinated to get a shot by visiting its mobile vaccine clinic at any of its several stops throughout the county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But on a Monday afternoon in Boiling Springs, only one person showed up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s progress. That progress is slow,\u201d Linda Bell, the state epidemiologist with the Department of Public Health, said during a recent press briefing. \u201cWe had hoped to see a more robust uptake than that in our mobile health units.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As South Carolina tries to contain its measles outbreak, public health officials across the nation are concerned that the highly contagious virus is making a major comeback. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tallied&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/data-research\/index.html\">more than 1,700 measles cases<\/a>&nbsp;and 45 outbreaks in 2025. The largest started&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/texas-measles-outbreak-cdc-vaccines-rfk-trump\/\">in Texas<\/a>, where hundreds of people were infected and two children died.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaiser Health News Near the back corner of the local library\u2019s parking lot, largely out of view from the main road, the South Carolina Department of Public Health opened a pop-up clinic in early November, offering free measles vaccines to adults and children. Spartanburg County, in South Carolina\u2019s Upstate region, has been fighting a measles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-measles","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11706,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10882\/revisions\/11706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}