"It's progress. That progress is slow,"
"We had hoped to see a more robust uptake than that in our mobile health units."
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tallied more than 1,700 measles cases and 45 outbreaks in 2025."
"For the first time in more than two decades, the United States is poised to lose its measles elimination status, a designation indicating that outbreaks are rare and rapidly contained."
A pop-up vaccine clinic in the back corner of a library parking lot in Boiling Springs offered free measles shots but attracted only one person, showing low uptake at mobile units. Spartanburg County has recorded more than 50 measles cases since early October. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tallied more than 1,700 measles cases and 45 outbreaks nationwide in 2025, with the largest outbreak in Texas causing hundreds of infections and two child deaths. For the first time in more than two decades the United States is poised to lose measles elimination status. Historically low vaccination coverage and other national trends are driving the resurgence.
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