South Carolina’s measles outbreak jumped to Washington state 5 times in 2 weeks
Since measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000, the country’s occasional cases have come mainly from international travelers—visitors from far-flung places where the virus still spreads freely—or unvaccinated US residents who return from abroad with a highly infectious souvenir. But as vaccination rates have slipped nationwide in recent years and outbreaks grow bigger and more frequent, domestic travel now poses a greater risk than international incursions…