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Utahns take bone marrow tests to find a match for 15-year old


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Updated: 7/28/2010 4:04 pm | Published: 7/28/2010 4:03 pm

DRAPER, Utah (ABC 4 News) - ABC 4 took action for a 15-year old girl in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant.

Natasha Hawatmeh has leukemia, but the odds that she'll find a match in time to save her life are one in 300,000.

Since we aired out story, people have flooded the Treehouse Athletic Club in Draper, where the girl's family set up bone marrow matching tests.

We appreciate it very much what ABC 4 did for us," said Natasha's Aunt. "They are the ones, they took our story, they were the ones to help us and be out there and took the initiative. You know we were always meaning to do this, but didn't have much time. It was last minute and we're very grateful."

We'll stay on this story and let you know if they find a match.

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