{"id":8131,"date":"2024-11-19T14:37:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T20:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8131"},"modified":"2024-11-19T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T20:37:17","slug":"8-factors-that-put-you-at-risk-of-severe-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/11\/19\/8-factors-that-put-you-at-risk-of-severe-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Factors That Put You at Risk of Severe Flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/19\/well\/flu-risk-factors.html\">New York Times<\/a> Flu infections have started picking up. Here\u2019s what to know. Sore throat. Stuffy nose. Fever, body aches and fatigue. As temperatures drop,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/fluview\/surveillance\/2024-week-45.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cases of the flu have started to rise<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many people, the immune system can clear those symptoms in about a week. But for others, flu can lead to severe illness, hospitalization or even death. Flu infections cause up to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/ss\/ss7306a1.htm#:~:text=Results%3A%20During%20the%202010%E2%80%9311,18)%20and%20had%20consistent%20seasonality.\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">710,000 hospitalizations and 51,000 deaths<\/a>&nbsp;every year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/ss\/ss7306a1.htm#:~:text=Results%3A%20During%20the%202010%E2%80%9311,18)%20and%20had%20consistent%20seasonality.\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new analysis by the C.D.C.<\/a>, which examined flu-related hospitalizations from 2010 to 2023, unpacks some of<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>the factors that put people most at risk of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/highrisk\/index.htm\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">severe health outcomes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/19\/well\/flu-risk-factors.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times Flu infections have started picking up. Here\u2019s what to know. Sore throat. Stuffy nose. Fever, body aches and fatigue. As temperatures drop,&nbsp;cases of the flu have started to rise. For many people, the immune system can clear those symptoms in about a week. But for others, flu can lead to severe illness, [&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":[6,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","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\/8131","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=8131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8132,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions\/8132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}