{"id":226078,"date":"2025-11-28T13:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/south-carolinas-measles-outbreak-shows-chilling-effect-of-vaccine-misinformation"},"modified":"2025-11-28T13:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:11:09","slug":"south-carolinas-measles-outbreak-shows-chilling-effect-of-vaccine-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/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":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/south-carolinas-measles-outbreak-shows-chilling-effect-of-vaccine-misinformation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But on a Monday afternoon in Boiling Springs, only one person showed up.<\/p>\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<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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/data-research\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">more than 1,700 measles cases<\/a> and 45 outbreaks in 2025. The largest started <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/texas-measles-outbreak-cdc-vaccines-rfk-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">in Texas<\/a>, where hundreds of people were infected and two children died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But on a Monday afternoon in Boiling Springs, only one person showed up. \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 As South Carolina [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}