Article: School building czar recovering from bout with West Nile virus

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 ...

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