Disease and kids of the polygamist cult

ABC News details their potential risk of catching disease:

While the nightmare of confinement within a restrictive sect in West Texas may be over for more than 400 children in Texas, the outside world may present them with unique health threats.

A dozen of the children have already been identified as being infected with chickenpox, and experts fear that the outbreak could be seen by the sect’s members as an ominous result of being removed from their cloistered world and complicate efforts to care for these children.

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