{"id":406997,"date":"2026-01-13T19:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406997\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T19:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:21:08","slug":"measles-cases-in-south-carolina-rise-by-124-to-434-state-health-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406997\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles cases in South Carolina rise by 124 to 434, state health department says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jan 13 (Reuters) &#8211; The South Carolina health department reported \u200b434 measles cases related \u200cto the ongoing outbreak in the state \u200con Tuesday, 124 additional cases since its last update on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The widening outbreak has \u2060been reported \u200cin the northwest part of the state, which \u200dincludes Greenville and Spartanburg, according to the South Carolina Department of \u200bPublic Health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Of those infected, 378 \u200cwere unvaccinated, three were partially vaccinated with one of the recommended two-dose measles-mumps-rubella vaccines, six was fully vaccinated and \u206047 had unknown \u200bvaccination status.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Most cases \u200bwere reported in children in the five to 17 \u200dage \u2060group followed by those below five years of age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting \u2060by Mariam Sunny and Siddhi Mahatole \u200cin Bengaluru; Editing by \u200cKrishna Chandra Eluri)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 13 (Reuters) &#8211; The South Carolina health department reported \u200b434 measles cases related \u200cto the ongoing outbreak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84,171544,517],"class_list":["post-406997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-ongoing-outbreak","tag-south-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}