婉兮清扬

Norovirus

发表时间：2008-05-09 13:13:57

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Last night, Matt sent out a notice to our team saying that some of our SDN editors working at the JavaOne site had come down with flu-like symptoms. Early in the morning, all JavaOne attendees received an email from the JavaOne team that San Francisco Department of Public Health believed that there was an outbreak of morovirus, and the Moscone Center (where the JavaOne event is being held) was impacted. The email also informed all the JavaOne attendees that actions had been taken overnight to disinfect the facility, and the event will go on as scheduled.

It should be mentioned that the JavaOne event got started on Monday. On Thursday afternoon the flu-like symptoms were reported by employees of Sun to their managers. Sun and the JaveOne event team immediately contacted San Francisco Department of Public Health, who inspected the venue, collected samples, disinfected the facility, and made justifications for the event to continu, overnight.

This reminds me of the hand-foot-mouth disease that is currently outbreaking in China, which have caused the death of more than 10 children in different provinces. According to related news releases, doctors began to suspect the outbreak of the disease in early March. Local authorities denied the outbreak of a contagious disease in the end of March. It was after the death of 6 children that medical authorities admitted the outbreak of the disease in mid-April -- as of today there have been 25000 infections and 34 deaths reported.

All lives should be respected. The difference is -- different lives are being respected at different levels in different countries. It makes me feel very bad by the fact that China is doing so poor in this aspect.

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