{"id":163828,"date":"2025-12-02T09:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/163828\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:09:09","slug":"japans-flu-season-comes-early-as-new-variant-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/163828\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s flu season comes early as new variant spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new influenza variant spreading across Japan may be behind the increase in early outbreaks this year, the Japan Institute for Health Security (JIHS) has said.<\/p>\n<p>The new strain, called \u201cSubclade K\u201d is a variant of the Type A flu virus, which typically spreads around the beginning of the flu season, while Type B tends to spread later on.<\/p>\n<p>Of the influenza patients JIHS examined since September, they found that 22 out of 23 samples \u2014 around 96% \u2014 were infected with the new strain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new influenza variant spreading across Japan may be behind the increase in early outbreaks this year, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3556,163,85,46,98191,17866],"class_list":["post-163828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-flu","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mhlw","tag-vaccinations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}