"His wife is an assistant teacher at a public elementary school in the county, epicenter of the state's historic measles outbreak, and shortly before winter break she'd received a notice that a child in her classroom had measles. Given his wife is fully vaccinated, he wasn't worried. Then, she began to get sick. And sicker. She got a measles test and, to their shock, it came back positive. She was apparently among the very rare breakthrough infections."
"Then, she began to get sick. And sicker. She got a measles test and, to their shock, it came back positive. She was apparently among the very rare breakthrough infections. Frightened, they took her to the hospital that night. "My wife was throwing up," Smith said at the meeting. "She had diarrhea. She couldn't breathe. All for what? This is - it's absolute insanity.""
In mid-January at a Spartanburg County school board meeting, an unassuming man described his wife's severe measles illness after a classroom exposure. The wife, an assistant elementary-school teacher in the county epicenter of the state's measles outbreak, tested positive despite being fully vaccinated, representing a rare breakthrough infection. She developed vomiting, diarrhea and breathing difficulty and was hospitalized. Local pediatricians learned of hospitalizations through social media rather than official channels. The outbreak in Spartanburg County marked a significant local surge in measles cases and raised concerns about further spread and increased national case counts if infections continue.
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