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Pennsylvania measles outbreak spreads, with 55 new cases reported since Wednesday

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173 people hospitalized and four deaths in state so far, with less than 1% of those infected having been vaccinated The Pennsylvania department of health (DOH) announced on Friday that 55 new measles cases had been reported in the state since Wednesday, with officials continuing efforts to contain an outbreak of the disease that has spread across dozens of counties. In a news release , the DOH said that 890 measles cases had been confirmed across 39 counties in the state so far for the year. The outbreak had resulted in 173 hospitalizations in the state…

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California man charged in the killing of his ex-wife – two decades after she vanished

Authorities discovered a body hidden in a home’s crawlspace in 2020, 13 years after Jill Maiorca disappeared A man was recently charged in California with the killing of his ex-wife six years after her remains were discovered in a crawlspace beneath a home – and about two decades after when she went missing, according to investigators. Jeff Maiorca, 53, faces a charge of murder in the death of Jill Maiorca, who was 29 when she was killed, authorities said in discussing what could be one of the latest cases in the US to be solved with modern DNA…

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