{"id":164045,"date":"2025-12-02T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/164045\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:00:12","slug":"japans-flu-season-comes-early-as-new-variant-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/164045\/","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":164046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1379,134,43231,111,139,69,56936],"class_list":{"0":"post-164045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-flu","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-mhlw","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-vaccinations"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}