{"id":9442,"date":"2025-05-14T10:35:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9442"},"modified":"2025-05-14T10:35:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:35:39","slug":"new-mexico-health-officials-one-of-the-most-severe-flu-seasons-in-recent-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/14\/new-mexico-health-officials-one-of-the-most-severe-flu-seasons-in-recent-years\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico health officials: \u2018One of the most severe\u2019 flu seasons in recent years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sourcenm.com\/briefs\/nm-health-officials-one-of-the-most-severe-flu-seasons-in-recent-years\/\">Source NM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mid-May marks the end of widespread influenza infections across the country, wrapping up a flu season New Mexico health officials described as \u201cone of the most severe\u201d in recent memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hospitalizations and infection rates from influenza ran significantly higher this year, New Mexico Department of Health Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Chad Smelser told Source NM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe respiratory viruses following the pandemic are reestablishing themselves,\u201d Smelser said, \u201cWe don\u2019t want higher rates of these diseases in our populations because of the hospitalizations and deaths; it\u2019s more important than ever that we recommend people stay up to date on immunizations, such as&nbsp; influenza, RSV and COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A contagious respiratory virus, influenza can infect people year-round, but often spreads further in late fall through the early spring. The virus has several types and can mutate rapidly, often requiring new vaccines to address the specific strains to be developed each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sourcenm.com\/briefs\/nm-health-officials-one-of-the-most-severe-flu-seasons-in-recent-years\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\" loyDL CKGuS\"> loyDL CKGuS<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NM Mid-May marks the end of widespread influenza infections across the country, wrapping up a flu season New Mexico health officials described as \u201cone of the most severe\u201d in recent memory. Hospitalizations and infection rates from influenza ran significantly higher this year, New Mexico Department of Health Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Chad Smelser told Source [&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-9442","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\/9442","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=9442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9443,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442\/revisions\/9443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}