Utah mother urging people to wear insect repellent

A Utah mother is urging people to wear insect repellent after her son was diagnosed with a rare form of West Nile virus.

Gina Vodopich said yesterday that her son might have avoided being bitten by a mosquito carrying the virus if he had taken 30 seconds and covered himself with repellent.

Ryan Stuart has been in McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden for more than a week after developing the neuroinvasive form of the virus.

Stuart faces months of rehabilitation and doctors are unsure of exactly how much damage the virus has done to his nervous system.

Vodopich says the effects of the neuroinvasive form of the virus have been devastating to her son.