{"id":118686,"date":"2025-10-13T05:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/118686\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T05:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:54:08","slug":"hong-kong-parents-schools-urged-to-advance-flu-shots-after-death-of-13-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/118686\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong parents, schools urged to advance flu shots after death of 13-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong schools and parents should bring forward vaccination appointments for pupils and children and strengthen control measures, infectious disease specialists have said, warning that influenza B is just as dangerous as influenza A.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Their calls were made after a 13-year-old girl who had not received the seasonal influenza vaccination died in hospital on Sunday following an influenza B infection. It is 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\">\u201cSchool administrations should consider liaising with the school immunisation teams for earlier vaccine appointments,\u201d said Dr Mike Kwan Yat-wah, president of the Asian Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cParents can also decide to get their children vaccinated in other ways, such as through private doctors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He also stressed that serious complications could arise from seasonal influenza.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to Kwan, the influenza B virus can cause myocarditis \u2013 an inflammation of the inner muscular layer of the heart \u2013 or affect other organs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong schools and parents should bring forward vaccination appointments for pupils and children and strengthen control measures,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[72568,4685,3496,72567,72563,18,135,4202,72564,19,72562,72566,17,386,72565,72560,72569,72561,71974],"class_list":{"0":"post-118686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-asian-society-for-paediatric-infectious-diseases","9":"tag-centre-for-health-protection","10":"tag-department-of-health","11":"tag-dr-joseph-tsang-kay-yan","12":"tag-dr-mike-kwan-yat-wah","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-hong-kong","16":"tag-hong-kong-childrens-hospital","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-influenza-a-virus","19":"tag-influenza-b-infection","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-japan","22":"tag-ma-on-shan","23":"tag-myocarditis","24":"tag-prince-of-wales-hospital","25":"tag-seasonal-influenza-vaccination","26":"tag-twghs-wong-fung-ling-college"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118686","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=118686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}