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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.
The staffers who have fallen ill are essentially being quarantined at their hotel, the Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, Ohio. That facility is almost 60 miles away from the Cleveland arena where the convention is taking place. They have been instructed to avoid the convention until going 24 hours without symptoms.
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Source: Ars Technica – Norovirus may have crashed GOP convention, sickening 11 staff so far