Second Dallas Nurse with Ebola Flew to Cleveland after Exposure
Second Dallas Nurse with Ebola Flew to Cleveland after Exposure – The CDC and Frontier Airlines say a health care worker infected with Ebola flew on an airplane the day before she reported having symptoms.
The health care worker, who was not named by the CDC, flew to Cleveland and from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth on Oct. 13. She reported Ebola-like symptoms on Oct. 14, and tested positive shortly thereafter.
The WHO says Ebola’s incubation period is 2 to 21 days. Dallas’s ABC affiliate WFAA says the nurse is Amber Joy Vinson, 26. The CDC says she’s in a stable condition. CDC Director Frieden said she was being transported to Emory Hospital in Atlanta, GA for further treatment.
According to Dr. Frieden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the nurse, who had extensive contact with Thomas Duncan who died of Ebola, should not have traveled on a commercial airline, and assured that from this point on the CDC will be sure that no one who has been exposed to Ebola will travel, except under “controlled movement.”
Because the nurse did not report symptoms until after her return flight, it’s not likely she transmitted the disease to other passengers. Frontier Airlines says the plane “received a thorough cleaning per our normal procedures” before it was returned to service on Oct. 14.
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