Amber Vinson
29-year-old Dallas nurse Amber Vinson has contracted
the Ebola virus at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Vinson is
a colleague of nurse Nina Pham, who contracted Ebola from Liberian
tourist, Thomas Eric Duncan. He has since passed away, while Pham is
under quarantine.
Nina Pham
Vinson is thought to have contracted the disease in
this setting. Vinson also traveled on a commercial airliner, not
realizing she had become infected. The CDC is now asking "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."
Thomas Eric Duncan
Ebola has not been a problem in America. Therefore,
medical authorities did not place emphasis on training healthcare
workers to combat the dreadful, hemorrhagic disease. The disease has
caught the U.S. health care system flatfooted.
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Second Dallas nurse with Ebola was on Frontier Airlines Flight
1143
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 asks 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. Frieden said because Vinson didn’t have a fever and
wasn’t vomiting on the flight “suggests to us that the risk to any
person around that individual on the plane would have been extremely
low.”
