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Published: November 4, 2007
Faces of West Nile: 'Mom must have sent that mosquito down here to get him,' victims son says
By Ron Jackson
MIAMI, OK — Donald "Don” Lee Wood lost the love of his life in June when his wife of 64 years died of heart failure. To no one's surprise, the 85-year-old Wood died less than two months later.

Wood, family members believed, died of a broken heart.

But an autopsy showed it was the West Nile virus.

"We were at the house before the funeral when we got the call,” said Richard Wood , 60, of Miami and th...

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