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A 20-year-old Amish woman with leukemia got measles and died in Pa.’s largest outbreak in three decades

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A 20-year-old Amish woman with leukemia died after contracting measles during a major outbreak in Pennsylvania. She was unable to be vaccinated due to her compromised immune system.

Speaking on the porch of her stone farmhouse, the grandmother of a young woman who died after being sickened with measles, described the family’s experience with Pennsylvania’s largest measles outbreak in three decades, now the nation’s largest.

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