{"id":8333,"date":"2024-12-17T15:19:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8333"},"modified":"2024-12-17T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:20:00","slug":"its-not-just-cold-and-flu-cases-that-are-on-the-rise-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/12\/17\/its-not-just-cold-and-flu-cases-that-are-on-the-rise-this-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not just cold and flu cases that are on the rise this winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/health-fitness\/2024\/12\/its-not-just-cold-and-flu-cases-that-are-on-the-rise-as-winter-sets-in\/\">WTOP<\/a> The holiday season comes with more parties, family gatherings and, thanks to cold temperatures, more time spent indoors. While coming together for festive fun can provide Christmas cheer, it can also provide the perfect conditions for viruses to spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEach year around this time, especially as the holiday season starts to pick up, we start to see more of all the other respiratory viruses that are kind of lurking in the community,\u201d said Dr. Katherine Cox-Flaherty, a pulmonologist with Inova in Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There has been a lot of talk about a spike in cases of the flu, COVID-19 and<a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/health-fitness\/2024\/11\/urgent-care-centers-report-unprecedented-spike-in-walking-pneumonia-cases-around-dc-area\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0even walking pneumonia,<\/a>\u00a0but other illnesses are also sending people to their doctors. Among them, according to Cox-Flaherty, is RSV \u2014 a respiratory illness much like those caused by the rhinovirus and enterovirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/health-fitness\/2024\/12\/its-not-just-cold-and-flu-cases-that-are-on-the-rise-as-winter-sets-in\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WTOP The holiday season comes with more parties, family gatherings and, thanks to cold temperatures, more time spent indoors. While coming together for festive fun can provide Christmas cheer, it can also provide the perfect conditions for viruses to spread. \u201cEach year around this time, especially as the holiday season starts to pick up, we [&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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"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\/8333","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=8333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8334,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions\/8334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}