{"id":81940,"date":"2025-12-05T20:55:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=81940"},"modified":"2025-12-05T20:55:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:55:02","slug":"extra-mutated-superflu-sweeps-britain-nhs-declares-early-flu-crisis-and-warns-of-worst-winter-ever-as-experts-suggest-wearing-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/05\/extra-mutated-superflu-sweeps-britain-nhs-declares-early-flu-crisis-and-warns-of-worst-winter-ever-as-experts-suggest-wearing-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra-mutated &#8216;superflu&#8217; sweeps Britain: NHS declares early flu crisis and warns of &#8216;worst winter ever&#8217; as experts suggest wearing masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/12\/05\/13\/104471975-15355995-The_number_of_people_in_hospital_with_flu_is_at_a_record_level_f-a-72_1764941327517.jpg\" alt=\"The number of people in hospital with flu is at a record level for this time of year (file image)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-ac463f20-d1c6-11f0-af54-a11a1cc466d5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">NHS<\/a><\/span>\u00a0faces a &#8216;historic crisis&#8217; this winter amid looming strikes and record numbers of people in hospital with\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-ac4295a0-d1c6-11f0-af54-a11a1cc466d5\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/flu\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">flu<\/a><\/span> &#8211; with experts now urging Britons to wear face masks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15355995\/Face-masks-flu-covid-NHS-hospitals-strikes.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The\u00a0NHS\u00a0faces a &#8216;historic crisis&#8217; this winter amid looming strikes and record numbers of people in hospital with\u00a0flu &#8211; with experts now urging&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/coughing.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81941,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81940\/revisions\/81941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}