Alan Bugg, NM-Victim

Man who died from West Nile virus was from Tucumcari
Last Update: 10/19/2005 8:20:14 AM
By: Associated Press

TUCUMCARI, N.M. (AP) - A Tucumcari woman says she’s angry that the state Department of Health doesn’t do more to educate the public about the West Nile virus.

Catherine Bugg says she’s also upset the agency doesn’t do more to help put a stop to the mosquitoes that carry the disease.

Bugg says her husband, 50-year-old Alan Bugg, was the second New Mexican to die this year from a West Nile viral infection.

Bugg says the department just stated that a 50-year-old male died of a disease, but she says the male was a person, and she wants to put a face on it.

Alan Bugg, who survived a simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplant in June, died October 7th.

Department officials say privacy laws permit them to disclose only the ages and home counties of West Nile virus victims.



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