{"id":103668,"date":"2025-12-29T14:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/103668\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:29:06","slug":"understanding-new-flu-variant-and-potential-impacts-on-coastal-bend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/103668\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding new flu variant and potential impacts on Coastal Bend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 There are questions and concerns over the new flu variant that continues to spread from coast to coast. Dr. Salim Surani, pulmonologist, shared his worldly experience and what he is seeing globally with First Edition viewers Monday.<\/p>\n<p>First off: Dr. Surani warns everyone should get their flu vaccine not just for yourself but for others around you. Yes, there is still time to get your shot and for it be effective in helping reduce the affects of the new flu strain H3N2 subclade K.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Key Details about Subclade K:<br id=\"isPasted\"\/>\u00a0 \u00a0 Dominant Strain: As of mid-December 2025, Subclade K makes up about 90% of circulating A(H3N2) viruses in the US.<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 Vaccine Mismatch: This variant drifted from the virus selected for the 2025-2026 flu shot, meaning the vaccine might not prevent all infections.<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 Potential Impact: It could lead to a more severe season due to lower population immunity and vaccine mismatch, but impact timing and severity are still being assessed.<\/p>\n<p>More from 3NEWS on KIIITV.com: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/health\/your-health\/new-flu-variant-and-coastal-bend\/mailto:tell3@kiiitv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tell3@kiiitv.com<\/a> so we can get in touch with you about your story should we have questions or need more information. We realize some stories are sensitive in nature. Let us know if you&#8217;d like to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 There are questions and concerns over the new flu variant that continues to spread&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-103668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}