South Carolina’s measles outbreak is over after sickening 997 people

South Carolina’s measles outbreak — the worst in the U.S. in more than 35 years — is over, state health o_cials declared Monday.

On Sunday, the state passed the threshold of 42 days with no new outbreak-related cases. In the end, 997 people were sickened by the vaccinepreventable disease since October and at least 21 of them were hospitalized, based on voluntary reports to the state. State health o…