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Plague, hantavirus, West Nile: How to avoid them

The "bugs" of late summer are biting. The nation is having its worst West Nile virus season in a decade, and up to 10,000 people who stayed in California cabins are at risk of hantavirus. A second case of bubonic plague in the West has been confirmed _ in a girl in Colorado _ and scientists fear that a bumper crop of ticks could spread Lyme disease, the nation's most common bug-borne malady.

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