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two schools in South Carolina has been forced to place at least 153 of its students under three-week quarantine as a result of exposure to measlesAccording to state health officials.
None of the quarantined students at Global Academy of Spartanburg County and Fairforest Elementary were vaccinated. ABC News report,
In the interest of the safety of others, they will now be expected to stay away from school for 21 days to ensure that the period of transmission of the disease has ended.
Meanwhile, dealing with school South Carolina The Department of Public Health will implement precautionary measures to protect its students and teachers from exposure.
Last week, Greenville County officials confirmed the state’s 11th case measles This is the eighth case of the year, since September 25.
“This case tells us that there is active, unrecognized community transmission of measles in the Upstate [region]“That makes it important to make sure the public gets the measles vaccine,” said Dr. Linda Bell, South Carolina’s state epidemiologist. said in a briefing,
The department reminded citizens that the virus is “highly contagious” and its particles can “remain in the air for up to two hours after an infected person leaves” an infected person. It is likely that it will also be given to 18 other people who have not been vaccinatedIn severe cases, measles can target the lungs and brain and cause cognitive problems, deafness, or even death.
The whole of America has recorded At least 1,563 infections That’s the highest level so far this year, since 1992, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
There have been at least 44 separate outbreaks in 41 states in the first 10 months of this year, most notably in Texas but most recently in Arizona, Utah and Minnesota. In contrast, there were only 16 in all of 2024.
Its spread comes amid the declining popularity of measles, mumps and rubella vaccines across the country.
before the beginning of COVID-19 Due to the pandemic in March 2020, about 95.2 percent of US kindergarteners were vaccinated mmr shot. Nevertheless, this figure is since fell to 92.5 percentAbout 286,000 kindergarten-aged children are currently not getting measles protection, likely a result of the online spread of vaccine skepticism in response to the coronavirus.
Jim O’Neill, Acting Director CDC And robert f kennedy jrDeputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, recently endorsed by the President donald trumpis calling Break the MMR vaccine into three separate shotsAgainst the advice of vaccination experts.
Neither Trump nor O’Neill offered any scientific rationale for their enthusiasm for dismantling the shot that has been successfully deployed in the US since 1971.
HHS communications director Andrew Nixon said Independent: “Deputy Secretary O’Neill agrees with President Trump that vaccinations for measles, mumps, and rubella will be administered as three separate vaccines.
“Standalone vaccination could potentially reduce the risk of side effects and maximize parental choice in childhood vaccination.”
pharma giant merck And GSK Joint is the major manufacturer of the shot, and the former agreed with experts who warned that it would not be appropriate to interfere with the vaccine.
Merck said in a statement that breaking it would require more injections of children and increase the likelihood of their vaccination schedule being disrupted, potentially leading to further spread of the virus it was designed to prevent.