Dallas nurse with Ebola should not have traveled on commercial airline

Los Angeles Times | October 15, 2014 | 10:32 AM

One of two Dallas nurses who have contracted Ebola should not have traveled on a Frontier Airlines flight earlier this week, CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden said today.

The nurse, identified by her father as Amber Vinson,  was among the healthcare workers who had been treating Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who later died.

Officials said she is being flown to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, which is equipped with a special isolation unit that can treat Ebola patients.

Officials said that at the time of her flight on Monday, she was under “self-monitoring.”

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