{"id":212732,"date":"2025-12-27T00:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/212732\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T00:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:53:06","slug":"flu-cases-surge-in-maine-with-more-than-800-reported-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/212732\/","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":212733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-212732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}