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Mass Media–Induced Availability Bias in the Clinical Suspicion of West Nile Fever
- Mayer Brezis, MD, MPH;
- Daphna Halpern-Reichert, MPH; and
- Mitchell J. Schwaber, MD, MSc
- From Hebrew University–Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem 91120, Israel, and Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv 64239, Israel.
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Background: The mass media can magnify the public perception of a risk to health, sometimes to the degree of mass hysteria (1, 2). Since awareness of a diagnosis influences the clinical perception of its likelihood (availability bias) …
