{"id":136370,"date":"2020-02-13T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=136370"},"modified":"2020-02-15T16:20:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T16:20:34","slug":"thousands-sick-with-the-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/02\/13\/thousands-sick-with-the-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands sick with the flu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Pacientes-con-Flu-Hoy-e1581724670764.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136415\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Public Health Minister Rafael S\u00e1nchez C\u00e1rdenas urges people take special care with hygiene practices to avoid catching the flu. The Ministry of Public Health has confirmed it has more than 125,571 reported cases of AH1N1, H3N2 and influenza B. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\u00e1nchez C\u00e1rdenas said that the seasonal influenza should not be neglected. &#8220;Here in the Dominican Republic, you see people with flu everywhere, because we are in the flu season,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\u00e1nchez C\u00e1rdenas said that influenza is benign in the vast majority of cases but can be lethal in the elderly, children under five and those with weak immune systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/salud\/rd-reporta-125571-casos-de-afecciones-respiratorias-JF17039440\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 February 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Health Minister Rafael S\u00e1nchez C\u00e1rdenas urges people take special care with hygiene practices to avoid catching the flu. The Ministry of Public Health has confirmed it has more than 125,571 reported cases of AH1N1, H3N2 and influenza B. S\u00e1nchez C\u00e1rdenas said that the seasonal influenza should not be neglected. &#8220;Here in the Dominican Republic, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/02\/13\/thousands-sick-with-the-flu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136416,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136370\/revisions\/136416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}