{"id":138895,"date":"2025-11-17T04:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T04:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/138895\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T04:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T04:12:10","slug":"superbug-outbreak-in-auckland-christchurch-hospitals-health-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/138895\/","title":{"rendered":"Superbug outbreak in Auckland, Christchurch hospitals – Health NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PostersPosters warning of the outbreak of the superbug Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in Christchurch Hospital this week. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

One of the strains found in Christchurch had been linked to an Auckland cluster, she said.<\/p>\n

AMR occurred when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites changed over time and no longer responded to many medicines, making infections harder to treat. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines<\/a> become less effective and infections become increasingly difficult to treat.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, most patients are carriers of the bug, rather than actually having an active infection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Infection prevention measures<\/a> were in place, including deep cleans of the ward environment and use of personal protective equipment, Berger said.<\/p>\n

\u201cManaging VRE is part of routine staff practice because of the increasing spread of these bugs within our community.\u201d <\/p>\n

Infection Prevention Control (IPC) specialists also supported clinical teams to make sure processes were understood and followed.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur IPC specialists have met with patients and their families and provided them with information sheets and taken time to answer any questions or concerns they may have.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posters warning of the outbreak of the superbug Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in Christchurch Hospital this week. Photo \/…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[51,1558,4487,77,94568,305,134,3274,78,111,139,69,17976,77657,312,94567],"class_list":["post-138895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-christchurch","tag-detected","tag-drugresistant","tag-have","tag-health","tag-hospitals","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-outbreak","tag-outbreaks","tag-says","tag-superbug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}