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| A New Virus Hits Sun Microsystems |
| 2008-05-10 |
| It's a new kind of virus for Sun Microsystems Inc. At the company's JavaOne conference this week in San Francisco, 70 people came down with what officials believe is norovirus, a type of medical virus easily spread by touching dirty surfaces. The city's Department of Public Health started receiving reports on Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday, the department warned people who felt they had been infected to stay home. Wow. Whotta concept! David Perry, spokesman for the Moscone Center, said 67 of people infected were staff working at the weeklong conference and 3 were attendees. He said the facility had been fully cleaned Norovirus causes nausea, vomiting and diarrhea and lasts 24 to 48 hours. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #2 Think thousands of people from all over the world putting their hands on the same keyboard at some kind of demo booth or email station. Then you rub your eyes or pick your nose and suddenly you're sick. But then it could've been from everybody breathing the same recycled air on the airplanes flying into San Francisco. It's an epidemic waiting to happen. |
| Posted by: Grusoling Panda8701 2008-05-10 18:08 |
| #1 I can think of dozens of better headlines for this one. Java makes people sick, for example. Dirty Java conference makes attendees sick. Sun makes attendees sick. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-05-10 17:24 |