--- title: California GOP Staff Bring Norovirus to RNC in Ohio description: Nearly a dozen delegates from California who are in Ohio for the Republican National Convention have become sick with the norovirus. canonical: https://time.com/4413944/norovirus-republican-convention-california/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-19T21:52:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-14T23:24:36.000Z article:section: Health og:title: California GOP Staff Are Isolating Themselves After Norovirus Outbreak og:description: The infected delegates have been staying away from the convention og:url: https://time.com/4413944/norovirus-republican-convention-california/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: California GOP Staff Are Isolating Themselves After Norovirus Outbreak twitter:description: The infected delegates have been staying away from the convention twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # California GOP Staffers Are Isolating Themselves After Norovirus Outbreak > Sponsored content. 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Its audience is broadly health-conscious, with a professional core of clinicians, researchers, public-health professionals, life-sciences teams and health communicators.  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Updated: Dec 14, 2023 11:24 PM UTCPublished: Jul 19, 2016 9:52 PM UTC  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Updated: Dec 14, 2023 11:24 PM UTCPublished: Jul 19, 2016 9:52 PM UTC **Correction appended, July 19** Nearly a dozen delegation staffers from California who are in Ohio for the Republican National Convention [have become sick with the norovirus.](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/07/19/illness-fells-california-gop-officials-convention/87288434/) The 11 members of the California Republican Party who have come down with the highly contagious digestive illness are staying at the Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, Ohio, which is about 60 miles from where the [GOP convention](http://time.com/4412477/melania-trump-campaign-blames-hillary-clinton/?xid=homepage) is being held in Cleveland, _USA Today_ reports. The staffers brought the illness from their home state and have been isolating themselves from the public at their hotel, Erie County Health Commissioner Peter Schade told the newspaper. [Norovirus](http://www.cdc.gov/norovirus/), which inflames the stomach and intestines, can be contracted through an infected person, contaminated food or water or tainted surfaces, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms include stomach pain, nausea, and diarrhea and vomiting. **Correction**: A previous version of this article misstated the role of those who became sick. \[[_USA Today_](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/07/19/illness-fells-california-gop-officials-convention/87288434/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4413944/norovirus-republican-convention-california/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4413944/norovirus-republican-convention-california/"},"headline":"California GOP Staffers Are Isolating Themselves After Norovirus Outbreak","datePublished":"2016-07-19T21:52:21.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-14T23:24:36.000Z","description":"The infected staff have been staying away from the convention","url":"https://time.com/4413944/norovirus-republican-convention-california/","keywords":["Public Health"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/public-health/","name":"Public Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4413944/norovirus-republican-convention-california/","name":"California GOP Staffers Are Isolating Themselves After Norovirus Outbreak"}}]}] ```