{"id":879083,"date":"2025-12-19T23:27:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/86-of-hong-kong-infants-toddlers-still-unvaccinated-against-flu-health-expert\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:27:43","slug":"86-of-hong-kong-infants-toddlers-still-unvaccinated-against-flu-health-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/86-of-hong-kong-infants-toddlers-still-unvaccinated-against-flu-health-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"86% of Hong Kong infants, toddlers still unvaccinated against flu: health expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-qa=\"GenericArticle-Content\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">More than 85 per cent of Hong Kong infants and toddlers remain unvaccinated against the flu, as medical experts urge broader immunisation against respiratory viruses, citing a higher risk of co-infection among especially vulnerable groups this winter.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Experts on Sunday warned that if the summer flu peak extended and overlapped with the winter season, respiratory viruses could remain highly active for an extended period.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">They urged the public to get vaccinated against both influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to prevent simultaneous infections, which could increase the risk of severe illness and mortality.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">David Hui Shu-cheong, a professor of respiratory medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said the summer flu peak was slowly receding and expected to bottom out by late November or early December.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">However, he warned that the winter flu season, which typically occurs between January and March, could bring about another peak soon.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Hui noted that 1.33 million people had been vaccinated against the flu this year, 3.9 per cent more than in 2024, yet many young children, considered high-risk, remained unprotected.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3333833\/86-hong-kong-infants-toddlers-still-unvaccinated-against-flu-health-expert?utm_source=rss_feed\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 85 per cent of Hong Kong infants and toddlers remain unvaccinated against the flu, as medical experts urge broader immunisation against respiratory viruses, citing a higher risk of co-infection among especially vulnerable groups this winter. Experts on Sunday warned that if the summer flu peak extended and overlapped with the winter season, respiratory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":879084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[402,29147],"tags":[9113,17034],"class_list":{"0":"post-879083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-infants","8":"category-toddlers","9":"tag-infants","10":"tag-toddlers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}