{"id":11377,"date":"2026-01-28T18:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11377"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:53:23","slug":"influenza-epidemic-declared-in-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/01\/28\/influenza-epidemic-declared-in-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Influenza epidemic declared in Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanjuandailystar.com\/post\/influenza-epidemic-declared-in-puerto-rico\">San Juan Star<\/a> Island Health Secretary V\u00edctor Ramos Otero announced on Tuesday the declaration of an influenza epidemic in Puerto Rico, after the established criteria for incidence and growth rate of cases were met during the 2025-2026 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-qs7pd293\">\u201cAn influenza epidemic has been declared,\u201d Ramos Otero said at a press conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-flhgx295\">\u201cThe region with the most cases is Ponce, with 8,392 cases, followed by Caguas, with 8,179 cases, and Bayam\u00f3n, with 7,111 cases,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-0bpie297\">Ramos Otero said two additional deaths related to influenza have been reported and that another 12 are under investigation, bringing the total to 128 deaths, of which only five people had been vaccinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-zw9p3299\">\u201cThe New York State Viral Diseases Institute confirmed that the samples we sent for sequencing correspond to the H3N2 subtype,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The health secretary noted that the H3N2 subtype originated in England, spread throughout Europe, reached the United States with more than 30 states experiencing high levels of transmission, and eventually reached Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Juan Star Island Health Secretary V\u00edctor Ramos Otero announced on Tuesday the declaration of an influenza epidemic in Puerto Rico, after the established criteria for incidence and growth rate of cases were met during the 2025-2026 season. \u201cAn influenza epidemic has been declared,\u201d Ramos Otero said at a press conference. \u201cThe region with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-influenza"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11378,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11377\/revisions\/11378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}