Well, what the public feared most is literally unfolding before our eyes, which is the spread of the deadly virus Ebola. In recent news, a second nurse named Amber Vinson (29) has been diagnosed with having Ebola. Vinson was said to be a health care worker who came to Thomas Duncan’s aid before his death.
Similar to Nina Pham, who was the first nurse to be diagnosed with Ebola, Vinson’s diagnosis is said to have been a result of improper usage of the protected material used to handle Thomas Duncan. Whether this assumption is true or not, one thing that separates Pham and Vinson is the amount of people they potentially reached during the incubation period of the Ebola virus.
According to CNN, Amber Vinson traveled on a 132 passenger plane from Dallas to Ohio days before her diagnosis. Her departure from Dallas took place on October 10th. Days after being Cleveland, Vinson was said to have an “elevated temperature” around 99.5 degrees. Upon her temperature increase, Vinson was then said to have called the CDC in Atlanta in which she was still allowed to board her return flight from Cleveland back to Dallas.
While many people have voiced their opposition of Vinson and her accessibility to get on a plane, reports show that her temperature of 99.5 wasn’t enough to raise a flag of a travel ban. Officials are now in the process of talking to all 131 other passengers aboard on Vinson’s flight. Experts believe because no symptoms were present that no one should be infected. On October 13th, after Amber Vinson returned back to Dallas, she was immediately transferred to the CDC in Atlanta. Since then the CDC has issued a statement:
–“The CDC guidance in this setting outlines the need for what is called controlled movement. That can include a charter plane, a car, but it does not include public transport,” Frieden said. “We will from this moment forward ensure that no other individual who is being monitored for exposure undergoes travel in any way other than controlled movement.”
The agency also is considering expanding its “no-board” list for people with known infectious diseases to include people being monitored for Ebola”–
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