{"id":374066,"date":"2025-12-27T01:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T01:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/374066\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T01:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T01:07:07","slug":"flu-cases-surge-in-maine-with-more-than-800-reported-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/374066\/","title":{"rendered":"Flu cases surge in Maine with more than 800 reported last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STATEWIDE (WGME) &#8211; Flu cases in Maine are on the rise, with more than 800 cases reported last week, according to the Maine CDC. <\/p>\n<p>The agency reported 864 positive cases and 69 hospitalizations by the end of last week. <\/p>\n<p>Most positive tests were among individuals aged five to 24. The CDC&#8217;s website indicates that reported cases and hospitalizations in Maine are spiking more this year compared to last year. <\/p>\n<p>A pediatrician described this flu season as &#8220;horrible&#8221; to the Portland Press Herald newspaper. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>Doctors emphasize that antiviral drugs are only effective within the first 72 hours after symptoms begin and urge those feeling sick to get tested early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEWIDE (WGME) &#8211; Flu cases in Maine are on the rise, with more than 800 cases reported last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-374066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}