{"id":2207,"date":"2013-01-13T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/new-york-declares-flu-emergency\/"},"modified":"2013-01-13T02:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T02:03:00","slug":"new-york-declares-flu-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/13\/new-york-declares-flu-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"New York declares flu emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"caption body-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/3e3465248572_65248556.jpg\" width=\"464\" height=\"261\" alt=\"People line up behind a sign advising people against the flu outbreak at a pharmacy in New York 10 January 2013\" \/><span class=\"c1\">The US is in the midst of the worst flu outbreak in years<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"introduction\" id=\"story_continues_1\">The governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo, has declared a public health emergency because of the severity of this year&#8217;s influenza season.<\/p>\n<p>The order makes vaccinations more accessible and allows pharmacists to administer vaccines to children.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 20,000 cases of flu have been reported in New York state so far this season &#8211; more than four times the number of cases last winter.<\/p>\n<p>The flu outbreak has reached epidemic proportions across the US.<\/p>\n<p>Last week 7.3% of US deaths were caused by pneumonia and the flu, just above epidemic threshold, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/weekly\/\">said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flu activity was widespread in 47 states, up from 41 the week before.<\/p>\n<p>Experts recommend flu vaccines, which have been found to be 62% effective.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012-13 flu season is said to have started earlier than usual, with many cases of the H3N2 strain, which can be severe.<\/p>\n<p>Some analysts say the latest numbers suggest the worst of the season may have passed.<\/p>\n<p>The only states without widespread flu were California, Hawaii and Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>Flu symptoms can include fever, cough, runny nose, body ache and fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>Severe cases could see vomiting and diarrhoea or develop into pneumonia. Many cases are much milder.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US is in the midst of the worst flu outbreak in years The governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo, has declared a public health emergency because of the severity of this year&#8217;s influenza season. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}