The South Carolina measles outbreak has surpassed the recorded case count in Texas’ 2025 outbreak, as health officials have logged almost 600 new cases in just over a month. The outbreak centered in northwestern Spartanburg County is showing little sign of slowing down,

State health officials reported that 89 new measles cases have been confirmed since Jan. 23, bringing the total number of cases to 789.

The South Carolina measles outbreak is now bigger than last year's Texas outbreak and is happening as the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination status.

The Texas Department of State Health Services is announcing three confirmed cases of measles in non-Texas residents who spent time in Reeves and Ward counties. Below are some possible exposure locations and times for the community’s awareness.

With Texas’ outbreak last year—which spanned January to August and spread to additional states—the US saw the largest measles case total since 1991, with 2,255 confirmed cases. Now, with South Carolina’s unbridled outbreak, 2026 is already looking like it will be another record year.

Unlike the Texas measles outbreak - where billboards warning of the disease lined highways and people queued for tests - the only measles warning in the county was an urgent care office sign asking symptomatic people to wait in their cars.

The total of nearly 600 confirmed measles cases so far from the Centers for Disease Control isn’t just more than the whole of 2023 and 2024 combined–it’s more than the entirety of 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023,

There is no cure for measles. Doctors can provide supportive care and try to manage the symptoms — reduce fever, prevent dehydration, treat secondary bacterial infections — until the disease has run its course, but there is no treatment.