{"id":235845,"date":"2026-01-16T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235845\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:30:10","slug":"wellington-hospital-gastroenteritis-outbreak-likely-caused-by-contaminated-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235845\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington Hospital gastroenteritis outbreak likely caused by contaminated food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4KLTOS8_240807_Wellington_Hospital_3_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"646\" alt=\"Wellington Hospital Emergency Department\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nWellington Hospital&#8217;s emergency department.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER\n<\/p>\n<p>Health officials said a gastroenteritis outbreak at Wellington Hospital was likely caused by contaminated food.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of the hospital&#8217;s emergency department staff have fallen ill over the past week and Health New Zealand has confirmed the outbreak has now spread to a general unit.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson Jamie Duncan said no patients had been affected and there is no risk to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>He said no further spread within the hospital had been identified.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wellington Hospital&#8217;s emergency department. Photo: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER Health officials said a gastroenteritis outbreak at Wellington Hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-235845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235845","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=235845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}