SEQUIM — Only a week after her wedding, 19-year-old Neana Melin Boynton lost her four-year battle against acute lymphatic leukemia in a Seattle hospital.
Mrs. Boynton’s death Saturday was caused by infection that started when she was bitten by an insect just four days earlier.
“It’s all surreal, numbing,” said family spokesman Don Zeller, who is friend of Mrs. Boynton’s mother, Cindy Robins.
Zeller said the leukemia had weakened Mrs. Boynton’s immune system to the point that any type of germ or bacterium might have caused an infection dangerous to her.
“She got a bug bite and her body couldn’t fight it off,” Zeller said Monday.
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