A South Carolina measles outbreak centered around Spartanburg County shot up with eight new cases and four more schools seeing students entering quarantine as lower vaccination rates continue to plague the Upstate.

The new cases push the outbreak total to 84, and the state has seen 87 total cases this year, the Department of Public Health said Dec. 5.

There are now 281 unvaccinated people in quarantine after close exposure to a known case — more than double the number just two days ago — and another two in isolation, the agency said.

The new schools with students and staff under quarantine include one at the center of the outbreak two months ago — Fairforest Elementary School — where 44 students now are in quarantine.

The other new schools are: Rainbow Lake Middle, with 61 students in

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