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A 20-year-old woman with leukemia got measles and died in Pennsylvania’s largest outbreak in decades

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A 20-year-old woman with leukemia died after contracting measles during a major outbreak in Pennsylvania. She was the last of nine siblings in an unvaccinated household to fall ill.

Newly wed, and receiving treatment for blood cancer, she was the last of nine siblings sickened when measles swept through her unvaccinated family’s home.

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