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The Texas Supreme Court reversed the jury verdict and rendered judgment for Union Pacific Railroad, holding that under the common-law doctrine of ferae naturae, the railroad owed no legal duty to protect an employee from mosquito-borne West Nile virus, as mosquitoes are wild animals not attracted to the worksite by the employer.
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