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Outdoor workers in Southern California risk West Nile virus peril.
Byline: L.C. Greene
Sep. 15--Jim Brandt starts his shift shortly after sunrise -- when mosquitoes might still be on the prowl and sniffing out one final snack before their daytime siestas.
Brandt, along with a half dozen other gardeners, tend plants at the sprawling Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens in north Claremont. Brandt and others working at the 86-acre gardens wear long-sleeved shirts, and some also use insect repellent.
"If anyone would get bitten, it would be us," Brandt said.
The gardens can be buggy at times, but Brandt said he has yet to see mosquitoes or suffer a bite this year. Earlier this year, the gardens added mosquito fish to its ponds in order to discourage the insects from breeding. There's still at least another month in the mosquito season, though.
Like the botanical garden's groundskeepers, many inland workers ply their trades in the out-of-doors, at dusk or dawn, exposed to mosquitoes that could be carrying the potentially deadly West Nile virus.…
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