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Naperville's mosquito detail Four men trying to stop the spread of the West Nile virus.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 30-JUN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Naperville's mosquito detail Four men trying to stop the spread of the West Nile virus.(News)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Jake Griffin

jgriffin@@dailyherald.com

Every Thursday during the warm months, four young men huddle around a folding table in a stuffy supply shed at one of Naperville's municipal storage compounds

Their job is simple: Keep residents and visitors safe from a potentially deadly disease.

They remove 15 insect traps from a freezer and empty them one at a time onto a sheet of white paper, painstakingly picking through the array of bugs in search of at least 10 culex mosquitoes that may or may not be carrying the dangerous West Nile virus.

"See how these have plumper bodies than the other ones?" says Josh Bennington. "That's a culex. That's how you tell the difference."

After separating anywhere from 10 to 50 culex mosquitoes from the rest of the insect herd, the frozen corpses are dropped into a test tube with four brass BB's and the tube is filled with "grinding solution." Then the tube is vigorously vibrated using a...

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