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Last updated on Monday, July 6, 2015
(CLALLAM CO., WASHINGTON) - A young woman from the state of Washington has become the first person in the country to die from measles in a dozen years. She died in April at University of Washington Medical Center.
Health officials identify her only as a young woman from Clallam County. Tests back this week from an autopsy revealed she died of pneumonia due to measles.
The young woman had been vaccinated for measles earlier in her life but she had health problems that compromised her immune system, making her vaccination ineffective.
Dr. Jeanette Stehr-Green, a Clallam County health officer says Washington had 11 measles cases this year, six of them in Clallam County.
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