{"id":672186,"date":"2026-11-02T00:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T00:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672186\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T00:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T00:14:26","slug":"hse-south-west-encourages-parents-to-avail-of-free-flu-vaccine-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672186\/","title":{"rendered":"HSE South West encourages parents to avail of free flu vaccine for children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HSE South West is encouraging parents to ensure their children get a free flu vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccine is administered by a nasal spray with no needles required, offering children aged 2\u201317 years effective protection against winter flu.<\/p>\n<p>HSE South West say that the vaccine takes two weeks to reach maximum protection.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Michael Hanrahan, Consultant in Public Health Medicine for HSE South West, says the vaccine is important for preventing the spread of the flu:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HSE South West is encouraging parents to ensure their children get a free flu vaccine. The vaccine is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[34472,103,61,60],"class_list":["post-672186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-flu-vaccine","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672186","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=672186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}