{"id":117435,"date":"2025-10-12T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/117435\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:31:09","slug":"hong-kong-urges-children-to-get-vaccine-jabs-as-flu-kills-unvaccinated-girl-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/117435\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong urges children to get vaccine jabs as flu kills unvaccinated girl, 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A 13-year-old girl who had not received the seasonal influenza vaccination has died in hospital following an infection, the first paediatric flu-related death in Hong Kong this year.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The previously healthy girl developed symptoms including fever, cough, sore throat, and runny nose from Sunday last week, according to the Centre for Health Protection (CHP).<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Her condition worsened over the week, and she collapsed at home on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">She was initially admitted to Prince of Wales Hospital and later transferred to Hong Kong Children\u2019s Hospital the same day.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A nasopharyngeal swab confirmed she was infected with the influenza B virus, a CHP spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Her condition deteriorated on Sunday, and she passed away later that day.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The student, who attended TWGHs Wong Fung Ling College in Ma On Shan, was vaccinated under the government\u2019s 2024-2025 seasonal influenza vaccination [SIV] programme but had not yet received the jab for the current 2025-2026 season, which had started, the centre added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 13-year-old girl who had not received the seasonal influenza vaccination has died in hospital following an infection,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[71972,18,21059,135,19,17,71973,48952,71974],"class_list":{"0":"post-117435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-edwin-tsui-lok-kin","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-flu","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-paediatric-flu","15":"tag-teenager","16":"tag-twghs-wong-fung-ling-college"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}