{"id":7414,"date":"2023-07-07T10:30:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T10:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7414"},"modified":"2023-07-06T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:29:08","slug":"quickstats-number-of-deaths-from-hornet-wasp-and-bee-stings-among-males-and-females-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-2011-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/07\/07\/7414\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Number of Deaths from Hornet, Wasp, and Bee Stings Among Males and Females \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2011\u20132021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7227a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/figures\/mm7227a6-F.gif?_=68904\" width=\"474\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2011\u20132021, a total of 788 deaths from hornet, wasp, and bee stings occurred (an average of 72 deaths per year).<\/p>\n<p>The annual number of deaths ranged from 59 (2012) to 89 (2017). Overall, 84% of deaths occurred among males.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data, 2011\u20132021.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/Deaths-by-Underlying-Cause.html\">https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/Deaths-by-Underlying-Cause.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2011\u20132021, a total of 788 deaths from hornet, wasp, and bee stings occurred (an average of 72 deaths per year). The annual number of deaths ranged from 59 (2012) to 89 (2017). Overall, 84% of deaths occurred among males. Source:\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data, 2011\u20132021.\u00a0https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/Deaths-by-Underlying-Cause.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,47315,47317,53752,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7416,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414\/revisions\/7416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}