{"id":87175,"date":"2025-12-17T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/87175\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:26:07","slug":"2-students-at-hialeah-gardens-school-taken-to-hospital-after-being-sickened-by-food-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/87175\/","title":{"rendered":"2 students at Hialeah Gardens school taken to hospital after being sickened by \u2018food item\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM<\/p>\n<p>2 students taken to hospital after eating something that sickened them <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 Two students at a South Florida charter school were sent to the hospital after being sickened by something they ate on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened at Mater Academy, located at 7901 NW 103rd St. in Hialeah Gardens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both girls looked distressed and crying as they were loaded into ambulances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe school contacted emergency responders after students reported feeling ill following the ingestion of a food item,\u201d Lynn Norman-Teck, a spokesperson for the Florida Charter School Alliance, said in a statement. \u201cRescue services were called, and the students are currently receiving medical evaluation and care. The situation is being monitored closely, and the safety and well-being of our students remain our top priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News spoke to Mater Academy students, who were unsure what their classmates ate and where it might have came from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Similar incidents have recently occurred at other schools, including at Margate Middle School, where students were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/05\/several-margate-middle-school-students-hospitalized-after-eating-suspected-marijuana-edibles\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/05\/several-margate-middle-school-students-hospitalized-after-eating-suspected-marijuana-edibles\/\">sickened by a laced edible snack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Christian De La Rosa\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/59a14089-8518-45b5-b7.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Christian De La Rosa<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Christian De La Rosa joined Local 10 News in April 2017 after spending time as a reporter and anchor in Atlanta, San Diego, Orlando and Panama City Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM 2 students taken to hospital after eating something that sickened them HIALEAH&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-87175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}