{"id":225277,"date":"2025-11-17T17:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-flu-strain-poised-for-possible-takeover"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:32:08","slug":"new-flu-strain-poised-for-possible-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-flu-strain-poised-for-possible-takeover","title":{"rendered":"New Flu Strain Poised for Possible Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-flu-strain-poised-for-possible-takeover.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the flu season seems off to a quiet start in the US, warnings from abroad suggest that a new strain may yet shake up the US healthcare system. New data reported in the British Medical Journal showed a significant increase in flu rates in the UK, largely among young adults and school-aged children. The cases are dominated by a new H3N2 strain, which mutated several times over the summer, increasing in severity, according to experts.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Data from Canada, UK, and Japan reveal an H3N2 flu variant that may affect 2025\u20132026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the flu season seems off to a quiet start in the US, warnings from abroad suggest that a new strain may yet shake up the US healthcare system. New data reported in the British Medical Journal showed a significant increase in flu rates in the UK, largely among young adults and school-aged children. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}