South Carolina’s measles outbreak is up to 16 cases, with all five new cases among students who were quarantining after potential exposure at two Spartanburg County schools, the Department of Public Health said Oct. 14.

At one of those schools, Global Academy of South Carolina, only 17 percent of students have the required immunizations, according to a separate state report.

Public health officials are also alerting those who visited a Greenville gym at a specific time and date that they may have been exposed to the source of a measles case there.

South Carolina public health officials announced an outbreak on Oct. 2 in Spartanburg County and later identified two schools there as the common link between initially seven cases. An outbreak is defined as three or more related infections

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