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Beta thalassemia mainly affects people of Mediterranean, south Asian, south-east Asian and Middle Eastern backgrounds.

Instead, she spent part of the day speaking to a crowd from the historically black sorority Zeta Phi Beta.

Earlier on Wednesday, she addressed the historically black Zeta Phi Beta sorority in Indianapolis, telling members that her new campaign is "not playing around" and asked for their help to get elected.

The women of Zeta Phi Beta, she said, had marched for voting rights and the end of segregation during the Civil Rights era.

Members of the fraternity Zeta Beta Tau said their house manager was stabbed by a homeless person last year in the same alley.