Again genius, don't try to show up people who live here and know first hand the actual locations and people involved
Yes, the 2025-2026 South Carolina measles outbreak was primarily linked to an Eastern European immigrant community in Spartanburg County, specifically involving unvaccinated individuals within Ukrainian and Russian communities. The outbreak was centered around a Slavic church and a charter school, with cases linked to low vaccination rates among these groups.
The South Carolina measles outbreak probably started in a Ukrainian immigrant community in the Spartanburg area, among whom vaccination rates tend to be particularly low, Thorpe said, but it has taken hold in a much broader population in the region.
“Antivax attitudes are firmly embedded in Ukrainian society,” says an analysis published in 2021 by the Wilson Center, a nonpartisan foreign policy think tank. It cites many possible factors for the sentiment, but much can be traced back to the early 2010s, when the Ukrainian government mishandled the storage and administration of routine vaccinations, resulting in many cases of complications among children that were initially covered up.
Early attention focused on the
Way of Truth Church in Inman, South Carolina, a congregation described by locals as consisting almost exclusively of Eastern European immigrants.
Church leaders have cooperated with public health officials since the outbreak’s early days. But the persistence of the outbreak may be exposing institutional weaknesses that long predate this congregation.
The northern Upstate, especially parts of Spartanburg and Greenville Counties, has what is believed to be the largest Ukrainian and Eastern European immigrant population in South Carolina. That population has grown steadily for years and surged dramatically following the war in Ukraine.
The first cases were linked to this school/church
www.wayoftruthchurch.org
www.bbc.com
