California sees first 2 West Nile deaths of year

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has recorded its first two deaths of the year from the mosquito-borne West Nile virus.

State Department of Public Health Director Ron Chapman said Wednesday that both the people who died were adults, one from Sacramento County and the other from Shasta County.

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