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mendax [soylentnews.org] writes:

If the verbal diarrhea that has emitted from the Republican convention in Cleveland this week isn't enough, it seems that the notorious Noro virus may be on the loose among the delegates [arstechnica.com], according to Ars.

Around 11 Californian Republican Party staff members who arrived in Cleveland early to help organize this week's National Convention have fallen ill with what appears to be norovirus infections.

Health officials have reportedly taken fecal samples from the sick and sent them for testing at a lab in Columbus, Ohio. "It looks like the norovirus, but we're not going to say that's definitively what it is," Erie County Health Commissioner Pete Schade told the local newspaper, the Plain Dealer.

What I found interesting about this story is not the possibility that the country and the world may see Donald Trump lose his lunch and bowels on stage on Thursday night, but rather this:

The resort [where the staff members have been quarantined] has set up hand sanitizer stations for guests, however alcohol-based sanitizers are not effective against non-enveloped viruses such as noroviruses.

If the noro virus gets loose on the convention floor there is nothing that can be done except to shut it down early. Maybe they'll blame it on some devious plot by the Democrats and/or the Hillary Clinton campaign, like they have blaming everything else this week.

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