By Lyn Riddle | The State
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Fifteen new cases of measles have been reported in the Upstate since Tuesday, more schools have had infected students, 303 people are in quarantine and 13 in isolation, the South Carolina Department of Public Health reported Friday.
The total number of cases in South Carolina related to the Upstate outbreak is 126 and 129 this year.
Quarantine involves staying home 21 days after a known exposure to monitor symptom development. Students who are not immunized and were exposed to a known case are not allowed to attend school.
Isolation is indicated when an individual has the measles and is infectious, which is four days after the rash appears.
Six of the 11 schools affected reported immunization levels in the low 80s. The Department of Health said 95% offers herd immunity. Statewide, the immunization level has dropped to 90%.
Two of the schools with quarantines — Dorman Freshman Campus and Fairforest Middle— have 94% and 90% immunization levels respectively. Chapman, Hendrix and Tyger River reported high 80s.
Here are the schools and numbers quarantined:
• Campobello Gramling School — 67 students in quarantine
• Boiling Springs Elementary —16 students in quarantine
• Fairforest Elementary — 27 in quarantine
• Hendrix Elementary — 40 in quarantine
• Mabry Middle School — 13 in quarantine
• Chapman High School — 5 in quarantine
• Rainbow Lake Middle School — 60 in quarantine
• Tyger River Elementary — 21 in quarantine
• Fairforest Middle School — 3 in quarantine
• Dorman High School-Freshman Campus — 8 in quarantine
• Inman Intermediate — 43 in quarantine
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