{"id":339920,"date":"2026-02-16T09:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/339920\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:17:10","slug":"winter-vomiting-bug-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/339920\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Vomiting Bug On The Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Monday, 16 February 2026 08:21\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__author\">\n                        By Siobhan Murphy\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6992d3959a8ad.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Health Service Executive is urging the public to be vigilant as noroovirus, also known as the &#8220;winter vomiting bug,&#8221; is spreading rapidly this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms include vomiting, diarrhea, fever, headaches, and stomach cramps, typically lasting 2 to 3 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The virus can spread through contaminated surfaces or food<\/p>\n<p>Experts recommend frequent hand washing, disinfecting surfaces, and staying home for at least 48 hours after symptoms subside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Enniscorthy GP Dr Bill Lynch told us there is no vaccine for norovirus, and re-infection is possible, often within weeks<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 16 February 2026 08:21 By Siobhan Murphy The Health Service Executive is urging the public to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[78],"tags":[19870,19869,18,135,19,17,19872,3136,19868,5,5485,161271,2451],"class_list":["post-339920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-eire","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-south-east-radio","tag-wexford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116079561539927065","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}