{"id":56,"date":"2009-11-04T10:01:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T16:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=56"},"modified":"2009-11-20T02:55:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T08:55:37","slug":"ministryflu-death-rises-to-15-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/ministryflu-death-rises-to-15-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry:Flu death rises to 15 in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/flu-death-turkey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-57\" title=\"Ministry:Flu death rises to 15 in Turkey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/flu-death-turkey-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ministry:Flu death rises to 15 in Turkey\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/flu-death-turkey-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/flu-death-turkey.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Turkish Health Ministry announced on Wednesday that four more Turks died of influenza A\/H1N1 in Turkey, bringing the A\/H1N1 flu death toll to 15.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ministry said in a statement that four people, including two women aged 24 and 31, a 55-year-old man and a five-year-old boy died in several cities of Turkey due to A\/H1N1 flu, raising the death toll to 15.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey registered the first A\/H1N1 case on May 15. The first victim was a 28-year-old male hospital janitor in Ankara, who died of the A\/H1N1 flu on Oct. 24.<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday, 1,870 people in Turkey had tested positive for A\/H1N1 flu since May, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CNN Turk on Tuesday, Health Minister Recep Akdag stressed the importance of vaccinations against A\/H1N1 flu, saying, &#8220;if we protect ourselves and the risk groups with vaccination, then the peak number of infections for January and February will remain lower than expected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Turkey began to vaccinate vulnerable groups against A\/H1N1 flu, starting from health workers and Muslim pilgrims preparing to travel to Mecca for the annual hajj.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish Health Ministry announced on Wednesday that four more Turks died of influenza A\/H1N1 in Turkey, bringing the A\/H1N1 flu death toll to 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,118,103,172,173],"tags":[351,343,349,356,352,344,353,354,347,340],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-only-on-nationalturk","category-turkey-choice","category-turkey-headlines","tag-ah1n1-flu","tag-flu","tag-health-minister-recep-akdag","tag-health-recep-akdag","tag-january-and-february","tag-ministry","tag-muslim-pilgrims","tag-recep-akdag","tag-turkey-istanbul","tag-turkish-health-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}