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Measles spreads to central Texas

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The Associated Press |
The multi-state outbreak confirms health experts' fears that the virus will take hold in other U.S. communities with low vaccination rates and that the spread could stretch on for a year.
KHOU 11 |
One unvaccinated school-aged child has died from measles.

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