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An Anonymous Coward writes:

There are a few articles floating around out there. I encourage the editors to choose their favorite one. Note that the headline in USA Today ("Measles kills first patient in 12 years") is misleading; the article itself admits that measles killed 146,000 children worldwide in 2013. [Then again, Wikipedia estimates 96,000 worldwide measles deaths for people of all ages.]

The article itself:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/07/02/measles-death-washington-state/29624385/ [usatoday.com]

Wikipedia's mortality estimate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles#cite_note-GDB2013-9 [wikipedia.org]

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