{"id":84168,"date":"2026-01-29T11:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84168"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:12:28","slug":"measles-crisis-grips-the-south-as-biggest-outbreak-since-elimination-explodes-with-600-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/29\/measles-crisis-grips-the-south-as-biggest-outbreak-since-elimination-explodes-with-600-new-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles crisis grips the South as biggest outbreak since elimination explodes with 600 new cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1VbiXT.img?w=534&amp;h=351&amp;m=6\" alt=\"South Carolina's outbreak of measles, which causes the distinctive rash pictured above, has surpassed a massive surge seen in Texas last year (stock image)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>South Carolina is experiencing the worst measles outbreak in America since the disease was eliminated in the early 2000s, new data warns. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/health-news\/measles-crisis-grips-the-south-as-biggest-outbreak-since-elimination-explodes-with-600-new-cases\/ar-AA1Vbsoh?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=697a1fc5f4a34b3f9c4d1bd8c5c646de&amp;cvpid=fbcad7ed8e234ae1a0d44c3bed9c3dad&amp;ei=117\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>South Carolina is experiencing the worst measles outbreak in America since the disease was eliminated in the early 2000s, new data warns&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/measles1.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84169,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84168\/revisions\/84169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}