Union Pacific Railroad employee William Nami worked for several months along the tracks in the small, rural town of Sweeny, Texas, the self-described "mosquito capital of the world."
Roughly 55 miles from Galveston, the Gulf Coast winds attracted mosquitoes in humid summer months, and workers such as Nami, a 32-year-old veteran at the time, regularly swatted away the swarms. During his four-month stint there in 2008, Nami contracted the then-prevalent West Nile virus, a disease carried by these ubiquitous bugs.
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