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Article: School building czar recovering from bout with West Nile virus
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- September 20, 2005
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The Patriot Ledger
Katherine Craven's latest directive is not of a bureaucratic
nature.
The state's school building czar, who tangled with Quincy
officials over the city's high school proposal, is one of three state
residents who contracted the potentially deadly West Nile virus this
year.
"To have a mosquito borne illness when you don't go outside ever
is really an unlucky sort of thing," said Craven, one of the few
pregnant women in the country to have contracted the disease.
Her message to residents: "When they tell you to take caution,
take caution.
"If I had known then what I know now, I would have been covered
head-to-toe in DEET."
Craven, a 32-year-old West Roxbury resident, spoke ...