I know, it was an easy one —\u00a01 goes with B, and 2 with A. Here’s a\u00a0good reference for more on flu deaths<\/a>, if you don’t believe me. I completely understand it’s been a bad year for arbovirus infections, in particular West Nile.<\/a><\/p>\n Yet as we’ve just had our first deaths from EEE<\/a> and West Nile<\/a> in the state, prompting widespread news coverage, mosquito spraying, and warnings from the Department of Public Health, the annual flu vaccine has quietly arrived.<\/p>\n And once again it’s remarkable how many people refuse the vaccine.\u00a0Can someone please explain?<\/p>\n Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OK, here’s a quick quiz — match the viral infection with the average annual US deaths: 1.\u00a0 Eastern Equine Encephalitis A.\u00a0 36,000, mostly in the elderly 2.\u00a0 Influenza B.\u00a0 < 10, mostly in the elderly I know, it was an easy one —\u00a01 goes with B, and 2 with A. Here’s a\u00a0good reference for more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,9],"tags":[305,365,500,990],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-infectious-diseases","category-patient-care","category-policy","tag-eee","tag-flu-vaccine","tag-influenza","tag-west-nile-virus"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/mosquito1.jpg\" "\\"mosquito\\"")
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