We are starting to hear more and more about bacteria and virus activity at conventions and meeting place...have they always been around or are we just now more intelligent to recognize them...Sun Microsystems in addition to working against computer viruses also had to deal with a real viral bacteria spread by touching surfaces...perhaps one day servers will need protection from both kinds of infections, data and human...also in the news was another situation in Canada where one passenger died when folks came down with flu like symptoms...where it was determined that there was not a virus in the air, but authorities all the same had to investigate and now are looking at the potential of foul play...I guess repeated incidents will continue to push the on line web conventions to thrive....BD
(AP) -- 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.
Shawn Dainas, a spokesman for Santa Clara-based Sun Microsystems, which makes servers and software and is accustomed to protecting against viruses of the digital variety, said the company also alerted attendees about the illness by e-mail.
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