{"id":397204,"date":"2026-04-25T15:36:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/397204\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:36:37","slug":"new-measles-case-in-wellington-health-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/397204\/","title":{"rendered":"New measles case in Wellington &#8211; Health NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4JYPB3H_MeaslesRash_tif\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"The characteristic rash caused by measles, on the cheek of a child infected with the virus, during an outbreak in the USA in 2024.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nMeasles symptoms include a runny nose, fever, cough, sore watery pink eyes (conjunctivitis) and a rash that develops a few days after fever.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied\/ US CDC\n<\/p>\n<p>Health New Zealand says there is a new measles case in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are still investigating the source, but several locations of interest have been identified &#8211; including the New World supermarket in Whitby and Woolworths in Papakowhai.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who visited those sites last Sunday, or on Monday, Wednesday or Thursday, should check the Health NZ website and monitor for symptoms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/health\/593124\/new-measles-case-in-wellington-possibly-exposed-at-airshow-or-music-festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Earlier this week<\/a>, Health NZ said people may have been exposed to measles at Warbirds Over W\u0101naka on Friday, 3 April &#8211; Sunday, 5 April, or at the Ultra New Zealand music festival in Wellington on Friday, 10 April.<\/p>\n<p>Measles symptoms include a runny nose, fever, cough, sore watery pink eyes (conjunctivitis) and a rash that develops a few days after fever.<\/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 daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Measles symptoms include a runny nose, fever, cough, sore watery pink eyes (conjunctivitis) and a rash that develops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-397204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397204","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=397204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}