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NapoliRoma (talk | contribs) Bring the norovirus incident back down to encyclopedic terms. Since only three attendees out of thousands were infected, the food service would appear to be irrelevant |
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In 1999, the JavaOne conference played host to an event called the [[Hackathon]], this event was a challenge set by [[John Gage]]. Attendees were to write a program in [[Java (programming language)|Java]] for the new [[Palm V]] using the infrared port to communicate with other Palm users and register it on the Internet.
During the 2008 conference, 67 staff members and three attendees were sickened by an outbreak of [[norovirus]], most commonly spread by food contaminated with vomit or fecal matter<ref>[http://health.yahoo.com/infectiousdisease-overview/norovirus-infection/mayoclinic--5110957F-E7FF-0DBD-1118AB40C328C978.html Norovirus infection]</ref>.<ref>{{cite news
| author = Jordan Robertson
| title = 70 people sickened during San Francisco conference
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