‘In 12 Hours She Was Dead From Measles’: the Story of the Daughter of Roald Dahl, Author of ‘Matilda’

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The death of Olivia Dahl, the eldest daughter of the British writer and author of Charlie and the chocolate factory Roald Dahl, occurred in 1962 after a rapid and devastating complication by measles.More than two decades later, the author turned that loss into a public letter that today, in a new outbreak of measles, circulates again as a personal testimony and direct call to child vaccination.The letter that Roald Dahl wrote after the death of …