{"id":12475,"date":"2018-01-11T12:36:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T12:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visiting-angels.co.uk\/?p=12475"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:49:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:49:40","slug":"flu-strikes-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visiting-angels.co.uk\/blog\/flu-strikes-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Flu Strikes In January"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"12475\" class=\"elementor elementor-12475\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-91b853b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"91b853b\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-95796ea elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"95796ea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Public Health England has reported \u201chigh but not unprecedented levels\u201d of flu being seen in the first week of January. The figures for hospital admissions during the first two weeks in December 2017 were in line with those seen in 2016 at between 1-2 per 100,000 people. In the first week of January that figure had increased dramatically to over 7 per 100,000 people.\n\n\n<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d8c80a3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d8c80a3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"post-content\"><div class=\"post-content\"><div class=\"post-content\"><p>Public Health England figures for 22 of 137 NHS Trusts show that in the region of 5000 people were admitted to hospital in early January. At the same time 22,000 people visited their GP\u2019s in early January.<br \/><br \/>There has been media coverage in the past month about the H3N2 strain of flu which is an influenza A virus which has been called Aussie flu. 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