scratching my mosquito bites and thinking about EEE

That's eastern equine encephalitis, and that's literally what I'm doing. When people get eastern equine encephalitis, it's fatal 50 percent of the time. For comparison, the influenza pandemic of 1917-18 had an overall mortality rate of 20 percent, and ebola has a mortality rate of 70 percent. Just so we're all on the same page here.

The disease is spread by mosquitos, especially those living in hardwood swamps, like what's behind my house. Aaaaannnnd, a horse in my town has it, which has promp...