Posted on 10/15/2014 3:17:02 PM PDT by grundle
DALLAS – A second nurse who cared for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan has been diagnosed with the deadly disease — a day after flying from Ohio to Texas, officials said.
Amber Joy Vinson, 29, reported a fever late Tuesday and was immediately isolated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
Vinson’s condition has worsened, and she will be flown to a biocontainment unit at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, federal officials said during a Wednesday news conference.
CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden said Vinson, who was in Ohio to plan her wedding, was not experiencing symptoms at the time of her flight but “should not have traveled” on her return flight to Texas after learning in Ohio that she was a potential infection risk.
The CDC is asking that all 132 passengers on Monday’s Frontier Airlines flight 1143 from Cleveland to Dallas-Fort Worth call 1-800-CDC-INFO. The flight landed at 8:16 p.m. CT Monday.
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Is this the government's idea of monitoring?
Lord help us all
Ugh...She cared for an Ebola patient then comes down with a fever then gets on a plane...OMG.
I have an idea. Let’s give every person who helps to care for any Ebola patient an airplane ticket to anywhere. It has to be used within seven days, though.
These are Federal employees.
Their job is to talk as much as possible without actually doing anything for 20 years, then retire.
That's all well and good, but, in addition to the 132 people on her flight, what about all of the people she came in close contact with during her travel: The people she came in close contact with in the airport terminals in Ohio and Texas? People at the baggage claim? People she encountered on her way to the airport? There's a lot more than 132 people at risk here.
Kind of a perfect storm.
Should be 1-800-call-idiots
Read an article in a European newspaper that ebola is used as a means of population control.
If that is true then let it start by culling politicians first.
One might wonder how many Ebola victims have been on many other flights—even commuter flights—without anyone else knowing.
bttt
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