Measles outbreak hits South Carolina
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The United States is facing its second surge in measles cases. Large outbreaks in Utah, Arizona and South Carolina are continuing to grow. CNN is tracking the cases.
The Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed the first measles outbreak in Bexar County on July 2. A recent study found that an outbreak the size of the one that occurred in West Texas cost around $12.6 million. It costs around $58,600 for one person to receive care for measles in the hospital.
Scientists are determining whether multi-state outbreaks are linked to the West Texas outbreak that started earlier this year.
Texas this year has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in more than two decades, as a mostly eradicated disease has sickened more than 700 in the state, sent dozens to hospitals and led to the death of two unvaccinated children.
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