Naperville's mosquito detail Four men trying to stop the spread of the West Nile virus.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June, 2007

Byline: Jake Griffin jgriffin@@dailyherald.com Every Thursday during the warm months, four young men huddle around a folding table in a stuffy supply shed at one of Naperville's municipal storage compounds Their job is simple: Keep residents and visitors safe from a potentially deadly disease.

They remove 15 insect traps from a freezer and empty them one at a time onto a sheet of white paper, painstakingly picking through the array of bugs in search of at least 10 culex mosquitoes that may or may not be carrying the dangerous West Nile virus. "See how these have ...