{"id":179815,"date":"2025-11-14T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/179815\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:00:14","slug":"ireland-on-guard-for-new-flu-strain-causing-surge-in-illness-across-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/179815\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland on guard for new flu strain causing surge in illness across UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Virus may find it easier to infect people, even if they have had the vaccine\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man receives the flu vaccine. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7c78b9dd-b99d-4ad0-90b9-393cdd23812f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A man receives the flu vaccine. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland is on alert for a new flu strain that is being blamed for kick-starting an \u00adearly winter surge in cases throughout the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The H3N2 strain of flu mutated during the summer, which could mean the virus is better able to avoid some of the protections people have from previous infections and vaccines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virus may find it easier to infect people, even if they have had the vaccine A man receives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[3496,2271,18,135,19,17,5002],"class_list":{"0":"post-179815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-department-of-health","9":"tag-eilish-oregan","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115546529849358773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179815","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=179815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}