{"id":227322,"date":"2025-12-17T09:12:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/new-influenza-variant-is-surging-but-vaccination-still-our-best-bet-who"},"modified":"2025-12-17T09:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:12:39","slug":"new-influenza-variant-is-surging-but-vaccination-still-our-best-bet-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/new-influenza-variant-is-surging-but-vaccination-still-our-best-bet-who","title":{"rendered":"New influenza variant is surging, but vaccination still our best bet: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-influenza-variant-is-surging-but-vaccination-still-our-best-bet-who.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amid an early start to the Northern Hemisphere influenza season a new variant of the virus is rapidly gaining ground \u2014 but vaccination remains the \u201cmost effective defence\u201d, the UN health agency said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid an early start to the Northern Hemisphere influenza season a new variant of the virus is rapidly gaining ground \u2014 but vaccination remains the \u201cmost effective defence\u201d, the UN health agency said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227322","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}