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DPH Confirms 2025 Season’s First Flu-related Death in South Carolina
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Dec. 3, 2025COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) announced today that the state has suffered its first influenza-associated death of the season, underscoring the seriousness of the disease as it circulates in our communities.
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TUESDAY MEASLES UPDATE: DPH Reports 14 New Measles Cases in Upstate, Bringing Outbreak total to 76, Additional School Exposures
Read Full ArticleCorrection: A previous version of this release had incorrect counts about where exposures occurred. Those numbers have been updated below. In addition, there was a typo in the name of a school, and the correction has been made below.
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FRIDAY MEASLES UPDATE: DPH Reports 8 New Measles Cases in Upstate, Bringing Outbreak total to 84, Additional School Exposures
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Dec. 5, 2025COLUMBIA, S.C. ― The South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) is reporting 8 new cases of measles in the state since Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in South Carolina related to the Upstate outbreak to 84 and the total number reported to DPH this year to 87.
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View AllSC Medical Control Committee Meeting - Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025
Agenda
- Call to Order - Dr. DesChamps
- Freedom of Information Act - DPH Staff
- Roll Call - Ms. McElveen
- Approval of Minutes - Dr. DesChamps
- DPH Staff Reports - DPH Staff
- Committee/Council Reports
- EMS Advisory Council - Dr. Clanton
- EMS Training Committee - Mrs. Smith
- Trauma Advisory Council - Ms. McElveen
- Stroke Advisory Council - Ms. McElveen
- EMS for Children Committee - Ms.