{"id":28086,"date":"2020-01-12T14:43:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T20:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=28086"},"modified":"2020-01-12T14:43:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T20:43:02","slug":"28086","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=28086","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/flu-shot-bad-match-influenza-b.html\">This Year\u2019s Flu Shot Doesn\u2019t Match What\u2019s Circulating.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah,\u00a0 just what pop at 95 needs to hear.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s more bad news about the flu: The main strain of flu that&#8217;s circulating right now doesn&#8217;t exactly match what&#8217;s in this year&#8217;s flu shot, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>However, the strain in the vaccine may still be close enough to offer some protection, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes amid a particularly severe flu season in the U.S.; the season started early, and it&#8217;s unclear if flu activity has peaked yet.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the season, officials noticed something very unusual: The main strain of flu virus circulating was a type called\u00a0<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/54509-flu-influenza.html\" data-track-type0=\"click\" data-index0=\"4\" data-component0=\"Inline links\" data-count0=\"17\"><u>influenza B<\/u><\/a>. Typically, influenza B does not cause as many cases as influenza A strains (H1N1 and H3N2) and tends to show up later in the flu season, not at the beginning. Indeed, the last time influenza B dominated flu activity in the U.S. was during the 1992-1993 flu season, according to the new report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Year\u2019s Flu Shot Doesn\u2019t Match What\u2019s Circulating. Yeah,\u00a0 just what pop at 95 needs to hear. There&#8217;s more bad news about the flu: The main strain of flu that&#8217;s circulating right now doesn&#8217;t exactly match what&#8217;s in this year&#8217;s flu shot, according to a new report. However, the strain in the vaccine may still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=28086\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28087,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28086\/revisions\/28087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}