SACRAMENTO -- The California Department of Health Services' Occupational Health Branch (OHB) is alerting California workers, employers, unions and health professionals about special risk to outdoor workers from West Nile Virus.As we reported in our Aug. 6 issue (p. 8264), the virus hit the Golden State earlier this year and has claimed a number of lives already, primarily older adults. The virus is carried by mosquitoes and has appeared as far north as Mendocino County and the upper Sacramento Valley
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