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Profile of West Nile victim: rural, elderly, immune deficiency.
Byline: Dahleen Glanton
COVINGTON, La._For seven years, Nona and Thomas Smegal lived a simple life across the lake from New Orleans in a nice brick house surrounded by aged pine trees, small ponds and blue jays that feasted on seeds set out for them in the couple's back yard.
There were always mosquitoes swarming around the kitchen door, and often they made their way inside. But that was a small price to pay, the family said, for the serenity of country living_until the arrival of the West Nile virus.
One Thursday evening in late July, 76-year-old Nona Smegal came down with an excruciating headache. The next day she was vomiting, had a temperature of 102 and her blood pressure was low. Her husband rushed her to the hospital and a two days later she slipped into a coma and died on Aug. 2, becoming one of seven people in Louisiana to succumb to the nation's worst outbreak of West Nile virus.
"I look back and wonder if there is anything I could have done differently," her husband…
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