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Byline: Dorsey Griffith
Aug. 28--On warm summer nights, John Lee is apt to stretch out on a lounge chair in his bathrobe and look skyward, tracking constellations in the moonlight.
But one quiet July evening, the Antelope man fell asleep under the stars and fell prey to mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus.
A week later, the 53-year-old was aching and feverish, suffering from what he thought was the flu. But two weeks after that, Lee was in the hospital with brain swelling so severe that he couldn't name the president of the United States, let alone recite his own birth date.
Today, one month after being diagnosed with encephalitis, he can count himself a lucky survivor of the most severe kind of infection from West Nile virus. Still recuperating at home, he is nevertheless well enough to…