{"id":133520,"date":"2017-11-24T09:26:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T15:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=133520"},"modified":"2017-11-22T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T22:24:43","slug":"higher-than-normal-flu-activity-in-nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=133520","title":{"rendered":"Higher than normal flu activity in ND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35681\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/flushot-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/flushot-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/flushot-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/flushot.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota health officials are seeing a higher-than-normal amount of flu activity for this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Department says it typically doesn\u2019t start seeing case numbers escalate until at least mid-December. As of the end of last week, there had been 124 cases statewide, with 10 hospitalizations.<\/p>\n<p>Two-thirds of the cases were in Cass, Burleigh, Morton and Stark counties. Nearly half of the state\u2019s counties have reported cases.<\/p>\n<p>Health Department Epidemiologist Jill Baber says the earlier increase in cases might signal an earlier-than-usual flu season. She urges people to get flu shots as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Baber says prevention is especially important around the holidays, when people are getting together at social gatherings and traveling in larger numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota health officials are seeing a higher-than-normal amount of flu activity for this time of year. The Health Department says it typically doesn\u2019t start seeing case numbers escalate until at least mid-December. As of the end of last week, there had been 124 cases statewide, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133521,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133520\/revisions\/133521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}