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Wednesday, September 04, 2002Mosquito bites line the legs of Cuyahoga Falls resident Wally Oelkers. Even a recent letter from the city announcing the discovery of mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus in his neighborhood off Bath Road wasn't enough to scare Oelkers and his family. "I get bit all the time,'' he said on a recent afternoon. Oelkers and his wife, Tracy, also let their two children go outside to play at dusk. "Are we worried? No,'' she said. ...The threat of the West Nile virus also isn't scaring the senior citizens at New Horizons Adult Day Services, an adult day care program at Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital. About a dozen of the seniors listened on a recent morning as aide Bob Friend, a retired area disc jockey, read them a newspaper article about a 75-year-old Cleveland man who died last week. Still, no one at New Horizons said they were worried -- at least not for themselves. "I'm 95 years old. I'm not worried about me,'' said Elizabeth Culp of Akron. posted by Sydney on 9/04/2002 06:07:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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