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Sacramento County public health officials have confirmed the county's first human case of West Nile virus this year, with experts emphasizing mosquito prevention as key to avoiding infection.

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With far more dead than living people taken from the rubble a week after Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes, doctors ...

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